What is Your Approach?

[Locke]

Maybe this guy, who teaches christian historicity at some bible-belt seminary is biased...?

I don't think he's biased.. He just doesn't know what he's talking about. For example, he claims any uneducated person made a copy of the original, and the third copy would be a copy of that.. But they actually had scribes who copied manuscripts for a living in Jewish culture. When these scribes converted to Christianity, they would copy the original manuscripts. They would continue to use the original to make copies until the original fell apart from this type of use (ehixh generally took several generations). You then have what are called 'families' of manuscripts. Each 2nd generation copy would be copied from these, and all errors would then be confined to the descendents of an individual family, then tested against members of other families to ensure, up to present day, about 98% consistency in Scripture, of which the other 2% is noted in the bottom of every Bible printed today and, as you will find, accounts for absolutely no justifiable reason to discredit the Bible's message.

@Kayenneh and others who mentioned source criticism: While I look back at my original post and plainly see I communicated by intent poorly, I think you can still agree that poorly conducted research can yield faulty results. I have found these basic facts through a more thorough search than a few minutes on google.. Though I don't think google is a bad research tool or that the internet is unhelpful. I was simply pointing out that you won't find something you aren't looking for.