“Unfortunately, it is unlikely and improbable that the ancient texts (being stories that have been passed down by generations), have not altered and evolved.
< Early Jewish Rabbi’s would memorize their entire scripture, accurately.
Other people would know it also hence correcting any inaccuracies even interrupting the speaker. Interruption at that time was not rude but supported.
< STRONG Embarrassing Figure of Jesus.
The Bible doesn’t change just to meet the times. For example, Jesus on the cross is an embarrassing figure. To have your Lord crucified on the cross is not something to boast about to others. Christians wishing to spread the gospel at that time would feel tempted to change the scripture to reduce the embarrassment. But instead they left it like that and you can see that for yourself.
< STRONG The Exact Copy of Thousands of Manuscripts
There are some bibles with a textual apparatus being the complete listing (per verse) of any textual variants that occur in any of the ancient New Testament manuscripts. Therefore, it is a very easy thing to go to scriptures such as John 15:13 and look at the textual evidence to see if there are any manuscripts at all, anywhere that have any variation on that verse. There are none in this case, the same as in other scriptures. In other words, there is not a single manuscript of the more than 25,000 manuscripts of the NT that have any derivation on that verse. Every single one of them says the exact same thing.
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< STRONG Dead Sea Scrolls
The copies of the Old Testament are verified to be accurate by the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Old Testament is certainly safe from the council that put the Bible together.< St. Paul’s Background
Early LettersPaul was converted a whopping ~4 years after Christ's death. After about three years, he started his ministry. So when he wrote letters, these letters were very well in the timeline after the fact of Jesus’ death.
Cruel History and Unusual Conversion
It was a compelling and significant to study a person who was once known to kill Christians, then becomes one, then assures other Christians that he isn't going to harm them any more, and then gets his behind into a basket running from his once known friends-now enemies, and then ministers the gospel for the rest of his life, losing everything he once owned, and then finally losing his head to a beheading for the sake of Christ.
< Luke’s Testimony (Biblical)
Luke, a doctor who wrote the gospel of Luke and did a research on Christ by questioning people, observed firsthand Paul as he ministered and thus created the book of Acts. In the beginning of the gospel of Luke, he writes to Theophilus about his discoveries assuring the most certainty on such matters.
Luk 1:1 Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us,
Luk 1:2 just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us,Luk 1:3 it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,
Luk 1:4 that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught.
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