Reading Time: 15 minutes Introduction How long were the New Testament manuscripts in use? Were the autographs (the originals) still in existence when our papyrus fragments we have today were written out? Craig Evans has explored and investigated Judeo-Christian libraries to see how long they were in use. With the discovery of the manuscripts Read more…
Reading Time: 14 minutes Stats breakdown Bart Ehrman early on says in his book Misquoting Jesus “Depending on whos estimate you follow, there are at least 200,000, possibly 300,000 or maybe even 400,000 textual variants involving portions of the New Testament, far more than there are words of the New Testament”. Bart Ehrman, Misquoting Read more…
Reading Time: 7 minutes Copies Embarrassment of riches Manuscript quantities Church Leader special Other historical quantities Concluding other docs (rename later) Time gaps What about other christian documents? Don’t we have quantities of others? Why don’t we have more of these most ancient manuscripts An Embarrassment of Riches If there’s one thing in abundance Read more…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Where did the scribes come from? Jewish scribes The ancient Jewish religious culture was already well established in the first century, and it was from this culture that the apostles and first believers emerged. It’s clear that the Jews guarded Scripture with extreme care and precision. From the post-exile time Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes What textual criticism is Textual Criticism is the process of attempting to ascertain the original wording of a text and the methodology goes something like this: So there’s the original copy, the very first (which we don’t have today) without error* Then there are copies of copies of copies that we do have, Read more…
Reading Time: 18 minutes 351 Old Testament Prophecies Fulfilled in Jesus Christ Fulfilled prophecy is a crucial internal piece of evidence as it informs us of predictions made long before their time. We have found ancient manuscripts, a famous Isaiah 53 scroll was found that predates the first century AD with this prophecy. There Read more…
Reading Time: 29 minutes What is an undesigned coincidence? Let’s give a simple illustration You meet Franki and Jeff for Coffee but you notice Jeff’s shirt is wet Jeff tells you that his drink fell onto his t-shirt Franki says it was his own fault You go to the bar and the waiter tells Read more…
Reading Time: 15 minutes What do the non-canonical texts say about the New Testament? what do these texts, that have an eye to skew the original texts give away? Here we’ll extract external details we can use to establish this point
Reading Time: 56 minutes What do the non-canonical texts say about the New Testament? what do these texts, that have an eye to skew the original texts give away? Here we’ll extract external details we can use to establish this point
Reading Time: 22 minutes What do the non-canonical texts say about the New Testament? what do these texts, that have an eye to skew the original texts give away? Here we’ll extract external details we can use to establish this point