Show Notes
Did you know that we don’t have the original documents the Bible authors wrote? Did you know we don’t even have the first copies? Or the copies of the copies? Did you know there are 40,000 variants between the copies that we do have? So why should we trust it?
Topics Covered In This Episode
Ancient historical sources vs the Bible
How many copies of the Bible do we have?
How old are the earliest manuscripts?
What is textual criticism?
What is a variant, and why are there so many?
Resources Related To This Topic
Cold-Case Christianity by J. Warner Wallace
An Embarrassment Of Riches by Dr. Dan Wallace
External Evidence For The Bible
Internal Evidence For The Bible
Were The Gospel Authors Reliable?
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