Case 03 · Apologetic · The class
Reliability of Scripture
Manuscripts, copying and archaeology against the claim that the text was changed.
6 claims · 47 exhibits · 37 objections answered
What this case argues
- We can recover what the New Testament originally said better than any other ancient book.
- The Dead Sea Scrolls show the Old Testament text was copied with remarkable stability across about a thousand years, alongside a documented plurality of text forms.
- Archaeology backs up specific people, places, and details in the Bible.
- Jewish scribes copied the Old Testament with strict, built in checks for error.
- The New Testament manuscripts contain hundreds of thousands of variants, and knowing what that number means keeps both panic and overconfidence away.
- The New Testament canon was recognized over time by wide usage, not invented at the Council of Nicaea.
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