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Originally Posted by Megendo The New Testament is constantly under attack and its reliability and accuracy are often contested by critics. But, if the critics want to disregard the New Testament, then they must also disregard other ancient writings by Plato, Aristotle, and Homer. This is because the New Testament documents are better preserved and more numerous than any other ancient writing. Because they are so numerous, they can be cross checked for accuracy...and they are very consistent.
There are presently 5,686 Greek manuscripts in existence today for the New Testament. If we were to compare the number of New Testament manuscripts to other ancient writings, we find that the New Testament manuscripts far outweigh the others in quantity.
For instance, Plato. If you take Philosophy in a college class, I guarantee you no one college professor will doubt a word of any copies of Plato's works.
Date of his works written: 427-347_B.C.
Date the very first copies were made: 900 A.D.
Approx. time in between: 1200 yrs
Number of copies made: 7
Now, The New Testament.
Date: 1st Cent. A.D. (50-100 A.D.
copies date: 2nd Cent. A.D.
(c. 130 A.D. f.)
Approx. time in between: less than 100 years
number of copies made: 5600
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And check me on this. I guarantee you I am right.
As you can see, there are thousands more New Testament Greek manuscripts than any other ancient writing. The internal consistency of the New Testament documents is about 99.5% textually pure. That is an amazing accuracy. In addition there are over 19,000 in copies in the Syriac, Latin, Coptic, and Aramaic languages. The total supporting New Testament manuscript base is over 24,000.
Almost all biblical scholars agree that the New Testament documents were all written before the close of the first century. If Jesus was crucified in 30 A.D., then that means that the entire New Testament was completed within 70 years. This is important because it means there were plenty of people around when the New Testament documents were penned who could have contested the writings. In other words, those who wrote the documents knew that if they were inaccurate, plenty of people would have pointed it out. But, we have absolutely no ancient documents contemporary with the first century that contest the New Testament texts.
Furthermore, another important aspect of this discussion is the fact that we have a fragment of the gospel of John that dates back to around 29 years from the original writing. This is extremely close to the original writing date. This is simply unheard of in any other ancient writing and it demonstrates that the Gospel of John is a first century document. |
Let me say you suck:
You say that 5600 copies were made in 70 years... right... show me your source
You say that bible hasn't been altered? Please, don't be that newb at history... let me explain:
First bible was written in that newb jew language whose name I don't remember... yeah Hebrew. Anyway, Greek translated it and made 5600 as you say. Then other countries translated it and made some other copies...
I challenge you to take a Greek bible, an Arameic bible, a medieval English bible, a modern English bible, a 1800's American bible, a 1900's American bible, and the actuall American bible... Now compare them and tell me I'm wrong, they say completely different things... Yeah, the layout is the same but hey TRANSLATORS HAVE TO INTERPRETATE THE THINGS THEY TRANSLATE, so don't give me shit about it being unaltered over the time when it was translated like 1000 times depending on the interests of each country...
For example, when the Roman Pope had more power than any king (1200 AD or so), the Roman Catholic Church had power over whole Europe, and they were the only "real" source for "real" Bibles... So the Pope was 100% able to change whatever the **** he wanted to change in the bible, everyone would take it as Holy God's Word...
Please, don't make me laugh again like this...
Edit: You say the Gospel of John is unaltered because they found a fragment... that's a falacy my friend.
Let's say I write a book, and after a war, the whole book is lost but a page. Then someone finds that page and writes a completely different book that contains that page... Will that book be the original one?