Transcription Errors in Our Bibles? Part 4 (TMF:770)

Friday, November 03, 2017
Peace to Live By: Transcription Errors in Our Bibles? Part 4 (TMF:770) - Daniel Litton
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       Richard E. Simmons III, in his book titled ‘Reliable Truth,’ has stated the following regarding the Bible manuscripts available to us today: “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…. 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). Bear in mind, of these 5,300 manuscripts, almost all the differences between them are spelling errors, and about one percent has any possibility of significantly changing what the original text stated (see Strobel, 2007, pp. 85-87). So, that goes to show the extreme accuracy of the Bibles we have today. Of all secular writings, none even comes close to matching this many manuscripts. Most don’t question the validity of secular works, so why are they challenging the validly of the Bible’s accuracy?

References:
Simmons III, Richard E. (2013). Reliable Truth. Union Hill Publishing: United States of America.
Strobel, Lee. (2007). The Case for the Real Jesus. Zondervan: Grand Rapids, MI.