Has the Bible Been Accurately Transmitted and Preserved Through the Centuries?
An Areopagus Forum With Dr. Daniel B. Wallace
When you read the Bible – or hear it referred to as “the Word of God†–how do you know that what you’re reading is what the authors originally wrote? This is a question that skeptics often raise, but in fact it is a perfectly legitimate issue that all serious Christians should understand.
The field of study that deals directly with this issue is known as biblical textual criticism – a term that is somewhat misleading because the word “criticism†usually connotes something negative (as in “to find fault withâ€). But as scholars use the term, it refers to biblical textual analysis – the art and science of comparing the variant readings in biblical manuscripts in order to restore, as accurately as possible, the original wording in the original texts.
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