Ep.109 – Truth In A Culture Of Doubt – Are The Biblical Manuscripts Corrupt?

Finishing up the chapter on having confidence that we have The Bible as originally written, we cover the last three claims from Bart Ehrman. We show the complexity of early Christian scribes and the systems they developed. We see how hard it is to get in the mind of an actual scribe but see that claiming that they changed the text is very hard to have done let alone prove. Finally, we look at the claim that we only have the copies and not the original manuscripts so we can’t claim to have the Word of God. We also see that Bart Ehrman is just as happy to pick up his Bible and point at it when people are claiming that Jesus never existed but puts it down just as quickly when he wants to claim we can’t have a clue what’s written in it is what actually happened in history.

Timeline Breakdown:

00:00 – Introduction
00:54 – Claim #4 – Early Christians Didn’t Have The Means To Copy Texts Accurately
01:22 – Early Christian Scribes Were More Than Capable
03:07 – The Importance Of The Nomina Sacra
06:40 – The Importance Of The Codex
11:31 – Claim #5 – Scribes Intentionally Changed Scripture So We Don’t Know If Corruption Has Happened
13:06 – How Do We Know It Was Corrupt & What The Scribe Was Thinking
16:26 – Claim #6 – We Can’t Call The Bible The Inspired Word Of God Without The Original Words
16:56 – The Original Words Are Preserved In The Copies Of The Originals
19:33 – Bart Ehrman’s Theological Claim That We Know We Don’t Have The Original Words Of God
24:39 – Absolute Certainty Or Absolute Despair Of Knowing What People Said In History
26:03 – Best Proof Showing Jesus Actually Existed – Bart Ehrman Pulls Out His Bible
30:35 – Conclusion

The episode link is cavetothecross.com/ep109