Intro to apologetics series: Can we really trust the scriptures?
So we have covered the objections to the resurrection of Jesus, objections to the historicity of Jesus, and now we get to one of the most popular objections to Christianity. The objection goes something like this, the scribes for the Bible have made small mistakes over time, so there is no possible way that the Bibles we have today are the same as the scriptures that were originally written. What I would like to do today is present the evidence for the case that our scriptures that we have today in our bookstores/Christian supply stores are 99.999% identical to the earliest manuscripts that we have recovered from archaeological sites. First, we should consider all of the ancient copies of scriptures that we have recovered and their dates. The events of the new testament are thought to have been originally written down between A.D. 50-100. We have portions of copies of these documents dated to around A.D. 100-150. We also have plenty of complete copies o