The Bible Myth

['67Scofield]

I was presented with this on another forum. Gemme back my bullets.:):

FACT 1: There have been many different versions of the Bible throughout history.

FACT 2: These versions have contradicted themselves and other versions, and not just in minor details.

FACT 3: There is disagreement amongst Biblical scholars regarding major points in the Bible, points as significant as the status of Mary's virginity.

FACT 4: There are no surviving copies of the original Biblical texts known to man. Furthermore, there are no copies of copies of the original texts.

[CoreIssue]

I was presented with this on another forum. Gemme back my bullets.:):

[quote]FACT 1: There have been many different versions of the Bible throughout history.But the oldest manuscripts do not have many versions. They agree and they are the oldest scriptures.

False argument to go to versions as proof of problems. Go the old manuscripts.
FACT 2: These versions have contradicted themselves and other versions, and not just in minor details.Oldest don't.
FACT 3: There is disagreement amongst Biblical scholars regarding major points in the Bible, points as significant as the status of Mary's virginity.So what? Those also don't read literally either. And deliberately exclude and add according to what they want to find.

Also, which scholars? Universalists? Literalists? Idealists?
FACT 4: There are no surviving copies of the original Biblical texts known to man. Furthermore, there are no copies of copies of the original texts.
That is false. There are manuscripts dating back to pre 100 AD. AD copies of manuscripts agree completely with BC copies as well.

Old arguments that scholarship and rules of research have long put ot rest.

['67Scofield]

:tiphat: Thank ya much.

I was researching the history of the English Bible, and saw that the oldest copies are kept in London. They said they could be dated to 300A.D. (could have misunderstood them)

What are the copies dating to 100A.D. called?
Where are they kept?

[CoreIssue]

They were manuscripts and pieces of individual letters that become the NT. They are museums and similar places.

The oldest manuscripts in whole or part are from around 300 AD. Other individual pieces date back to pre 100 AD. The first bound edition was in the 300s, the Codex Sinaiticus.

Of course I am talking OT plus NT. Just the Hebrew OT Bible evidence dates fack into BC times as scroll collections.