Biblical Manuscripts and the Inerrancy of the New Testament

The Bible's Veracity is Incomparable in Human History

While I was writing this, I came to a conclusion that it is simply not possible to include all of the evidence that there is about the Bible's veracity. With mountainous piles of manuscripts, different translations, fulfillment of prophecies, historical and archeological finds, and so on, no one book can describe all that there is. Even with the vast amount of empirical evidence of the Bible's unchanging Word, it's authenticity, truthfulness, prophetic fulfillments, and that it is the divinely inspired Word of the Living God, there remains room to doubt for some. Even among professing Christians, almost half believe you can't take every word in it seriously or that some things in the Bible didn't really happen. The Bible can be examined by empirical methodologies, and it is possible to come to a clear conclusion about it. In latter chapters, historical, archeological, scientific, mathematical, and other methodologies will be used, in an empirical sense; and with tangible, quantifiable results.

When compared to most human historical documents, Biblical manuscripts reigns supreme by far. The greatest problem is a good one to have...that there is so much evidence to introduce as exhibit's A through the hundreds...that the case of the Bible being true, would have been solved long before it even started.

New Testament manuscripts have been preserved by the thousands. No other ancient works or events in human history has today what the Bible contains in documented and recorded histories. There are over 5,700 complete or fragmented Greek manuscripts, 10,000 Latin manuscripts and 9,300 manuscripts in various other ancient languages including Syriac, Slavic, Gothic, Ethiopic, Coptic, and even Armenian. The dates of these manuscripts range from the 2nd century up to the invention of the printing press in the 15th century. And every year 2 or 3 New Testament manuscripts handwritten in the original Greek format are discovered. The latest large find was in 2008, when 47 new manuscripts were discovered in Albania, and at least 17 of them unknown to Western scholars. [1]