The Beauty and Complexity of Christianity with Justin Brierley
Maybe God
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*Gospel Textual Variation from transcripts. Changed! Bart Ehrman. *
We don't have the original copies of any of the books of the New Testament./nThese copies all differ from one another./nScribes were changing the text./nThere are over 5,000 manuscripts in the Greek language in which the New Testament was originally written./nIn these over 5,000 copies, there are hundreds of thousands of differences./nMost of these differences don't matter for anything./nBut there are some differences that make a difference, and sometimes they make a lot of difference./nThese changes affect how a passage is to be interpreted, the meaning of an entire book, and the area of Christian theology.
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