What hard evidence says about
What hard evidence says about What hard evidence says about: ‘The Authenticity of the Bible’
- Old Testament:
- Oldest Hebrew Manuscript dated approx 900 AD
- Time gap is about 1300 years
- Reliability about same as other writings of antiquity until discovery of Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947
- Old Testament manuscripts found with the Dead Sea Scrolls dated before time of Christ (125 BC)
- Time gap decreases to less than 300 years
- Dead Sea Scrolls contained over 40,000 inscribed fragments from which over 500 books were reconstructed – some of which were extrabiblical
- Example: Isaiah – a complete text was found dating 125 BC, 1000 years older than any known text at that time.
- Example: Isaiah 53 – only difference, other than font variations, was the inclusion of three letters comprising the word ‘light’ in verse 11, which created no change in meaning of verse.
- Conclusion: In over 1000 years, only 1 minor word deletion occurred out of a possible 166 words – a true testament to the accuracy of the copyists and the provision of God throughout the centuries!
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