Questions For You Non Believers

[Chas]

We don't have the original texts of the works of Josephus either. We only have tiny fragments left of the Hexapla (a work believed to have never been duplicated in whole). The Jews "retired" their old Biblical manuscripts by burying them once they were well worn, they didn't see the use in keeping the oldest texts they had. Let me remind you that even without the Levites, even with the "temple scrolls" being taken or destroyed not just once but twice (with the destruction of the corresponding 1st and 2nd temples) that the Jews - specifically the Masorites - still managed to preserve the 22 scrolls exceptionally well, and that the argument that they didn't is refuted with the Qumran scrolls that prove there was no intentional alteration to the texts between 2BC and 1000AD to the present. The Book of Daniel switches from Hebrew to Aramaic back to Hebrew, which the critics used to say proved the book was originally written in Aramaic and then altered to contain Hebrew. The Great Isaiah Scroll proves that Isaiah was not modified like the critics said it was. Isaiah 7:14 reads עלמה (almâh) even though the sceptics said that the Christians modified it!

Your theory is nothing new. The fallacy in your argument is that you assert that there "should be" original manuscripts. Show me all these other ancient manuscripts you have originals of and not copies?

We have 19 NT manuscripts from the first and second centuries (only one of those is from the first century). Of the 19, about 6 were discovered only about a year ago. Between the 19 manuscripts, they contain more than 40% of the text of the NT. Not a single one contains an addition to the text not found in the later manuscripts.

Try again.

It is neither mine nor a theory. These are facts discovered by good Biblical scholarship.