They could copy only letter by letter, not word by word.Here are a few of the rules they followed meticulously:
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The earliest Jewish scribes (Old Testament copyists) followed a strict code to insure accuracy in their copies. The extreme care with which the Scriptures were copied When a Bible translation is done, the translator goes back to these early manuscripts in the original languages.Ģ. Dan Brown suggests that that the Bible has been passed down from language to language over the centuries, and thus may have been changed many times. Why didn’t God allow us to have the original rather than relying on a number of copies? One possibility: we would have worshiped an old document rather than reading and following His living Word.īy the way, it’s important to understand that Bibles are translated from these original copies, which were written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. To have such an abundance of copies of the New Testament from dates within 70 years after their writing is amazing (When Skeptics Ask, pp. To put that in perspective, there are only 643 copies of Homer’s Iliad, and that is the most famous book of ancient Greece! No one doubts the existence of Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars, but we only have 10 copies of it and the earliest of those was made 1,000 years after it was written. There are 5,366 manuscripts to compare and draw information from, and some of these date from the second or third centuries. The number of manuscript copies and the short length of time between the original manuscripts and our first copies of the New Testamentįor the New Testament the evidence is overwhelming. The external evidence says the Bible is a historical book.Įxternal evidence simple means the proofs for the reliability of the Bible that are outside the pages of the Bible itself.ġ. HOW DO WE KNOW THE BIBLE CAME FROM GOD?Ī. Obviously, the Bible didn’t “arrive by fax from heaven” or “fall magically from the clouds.” But I do believe that the Bible is a product of God, not man. History has never had a definite version of the book.” (The Da Vinci Code, p. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. “The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven….