Transcription Errors in Our Bibles? Part 3 (TMF:769)

Thursday, November 02, 2017
Peace to Live By: Transcription Errors in Our Bibles? Part 3 (TMF:769) - Daniel Litton
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       Now it is true that we don’t have the original copies of the New Testament or even the Old Testament. But this does not mean that the manuscripts we have today are not accurate. For many old secular works as well, we do not have the original manuscripts. Richard E. Simmons III, in his book titled ‘Reliable Truth,’ has stated the following regarding the Bible manuscripts available to us today: “Scholars who study ancient history will tell you that in order to test the validity of any ancient literary work you have to consider… how many manuscripts exist…. The greater the number of manuscripts would indicate a greater accuracy of the writings in question…. Take Plato for instance…. all we have is 7 manuscripts. And take Aristotle for example. We only have 49 of his manuscripts. And Homer’s Illiad. We have 643 copes of his manuscripts. But when you consider the New Testament, just the New Testament alone, we have 5,300 manuscripts written in the original Greek” (p. 58, 2013).

Reference:
Simmons III, Richard E. (2013). Reliable Truth. Union Hill Publishing: United States of America.