Dr Daniel Wallace
we don't have the original manuscripts of the New Testament they were they all disappeared within a century I'm pretty convinced by copying and copying and copying frequent handling the early church was far more concerned to get the gospel out than they were to do exact copying of the New Testament and that actually is a blessing because they didn't have those kinds of controls and consequently you get copies
that are not through just one stream but tons of people all over the place are making these copies so here's here's a man who lives in Corinth he's gonna be visiting Rome and he says hey I I heard Paul Paul wrote a letter to you guys - I want to write that out do you mind if I copy it when I get there sure that's no problem this happened I'm sure dozens and dozens of times over and those manuscripts would have lasted as much as 80 90 years but would a fall apart from all these copies being made so we don't have the originals they disappeared and all the copies that we have disagree with each other at some point .
sometimes it's quite a few disagreements but we have hundreds of thousands of texture variants among our manuscripts so a question to ask yours how badly did the scribes corrupt the
New Testament it's absolutely proven that they did know two manuscripts are all alike so unless one of them is pristine every single scribe made mistakes so because the original manuscripts
disappeared and because no two copies agree with each other completely we have to do texture criticism we can't just rely one
it's imperfect so scholars have to reconstruct on that basis but when you look at the number of textual variants and there's hundreds of thousands of them as Bart Erman likes to say there are more textual variants than our words in the original or Testament that's actually an understatement but you have to
not just look at the number of variants you have to look at the
nature of these variants and the best estimates are that at least at least 99.8% of them affected nothing most are spelling differences there's different ways to spell John there's different ways to spell Mary they're not going to affect anything but the the one-fifth of 1% that do affect things are the ones that scholars talk about and disagree over on a number of these issues but the bottom line is it does not matter in some respects which New Testament you use because no essential doctrine is jeopardized by any of these textual variants even Bart Ehrman who wrote misquoting Jesus can say the same thing so that's true on that end but at the same time we want to know what the original text said in all the details and so the great majority of scholars have very few disagreements over these passages for example most scholars
would say the long inning of Mark's Gospel mark 16: 9 through 20 is almost surely not a Finnick and they still put in their Bibles typically smaller print or in brackets or footnote the oldest authorities don't have this so there's a wide consensus on the vast majority of textual variants and again there's no essential
doctrine that's jeopardized by any of these textual variants
that is extremely comforting it's very important to know that
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