The Question of the Greek New Testament

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Notice that having evidence of a manuscript is not the same as having the manuscript.

Precisely.  They claim they have evidence.  The rest of us have bupkes except their word which is worth exactly shit.


There have been so many of these scams lately ( remember the Lead Codices, or the Jehoash tablet, or the James Ossuary, or the First Temple Pomegranite, or the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, to name a few.)

Even when there are legitimate archaeological finds like the Ebla library or the DSS we go through a period which scholars call "the silly season" where every religious shitwit pronounces the new find as "proof" of their fairy tale.  They are not.

I remember a few years ago my mother was trying to scare the hell out of me by telling me about an episode of TBN (I call it an episode, what else can I call it) where they were saying archeologist had dug down to hell and they were playing recordings of what they claimed were the screams of souls trapped   there. They even had a bat flying out of the hole. It saddened me that my mother would believe such crap.  But when you have an emotional need to believe something, you're not going to question anything that claims to be proof of what you believe.