(June 23, 2016 at 3:15 am)Aractus Wrote:(June 22, 2016 at 7:37 pm)Jehanne Wrote: So, even near the end of the 2nd Century, the Lord's Prayer was not yet completely established! Who knows the variants that were taking place prior to P75?! That's Professor Ehrman's point -- no one really knows the true words of Jesus.
Well we do know because scholarship tells us. They are certain we have ~98% the original wording of the gospels (with meaning at greater than 99.5%).
Outside of evangelical scholarship, I would appreciate one scholarly source to support the above statement (the ~98%). Assuming that Mark was written around 70 AD, it is over 100 years before the earliest manuscript of Mark appears, including, the text of Mark that appears in P75. But, even if you grant 100% correctness in transmission from Mark until P75 and beyond, the scholarly consensus is that over 80% of the words of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels were not spoken by him:
https://www.westarinstitute.org/projects...-of-jesus/
