Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 1106 If God inspired the Scriptures, did He also promise to preserve them perfectly? Can we be confident that what we have today accurately represents what the original authors wrote? What exactly did God promise about preservation, and what can we realistically expect? The Doctrine of Preservation The doctrine of preservation holds that God…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 1110 When we pick up our English Bibles, we trust that the words we read faithfully represent what the apostles and prophets originally wrote. But behind every translation lies a fundamental question: which Greek manuscripts should translators rely upon? The Majority Text theory offers one answer to this question, and it has shaped how…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 1111 When people learn that we possess over 5,800 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament, they often wonder why so many of these early witnesses survive only as fragments. Why do we have pieces of papyrus with just a few verses rather than complete books? The answer takes us into the ancient world of…