Most scholars put the number of variants for the New Testament at around 400,000. A textual variant is any place among the manuscripts in which there is variation in wording, including word order, omission or addition of words, even spelling differences. These places where the manuscripts differ from one another are called variants. There are more variations among our manuscripts than there are words in the New Testament.” “What good is it to say that the autographs (i.e., the originals) were inspired? We don’t have the originals! We have only error-ridden copies, and the vast majority of these are centuries removed from the originals and different from them, evidently, in thousands of ways. In his bestselling book, Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman writes, This fact alone was supposed to convince us that the New Testament documents are unreliable.ĭoes the New Testament we possess correctly reflect the words the authors penned in the first century? Leading textual critic Bart Ehrman says, no. While taking questions at a recent event, a young girl stood up and boldly stated, “The Bible has been changed so many times over the last 2000 years, it’s impossible to know what it originally said.” As ammunition for her claim, she cited the hundreds of thousands of differences between the New Testament manuscripts.
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