New testament Quote by Bart D. Ehrman

“In my mortal life, I saw mainly those texts that the church sanctioned--the gospels and the Orthodox commentary on them, for example. These works…

— Elizabeth Kostova

“To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into obscurity, for…

— John Warwick Montgomery

“Our New Testament text of today is a reconstructed or restored text. It has been reconstructed by modern scholarship from three independent lines of…

— Neil R. Lightfoot

“essential Christian beliefs are not affected by textual variants in the manuscript tradition of the New Testament.”

— Craig Blomberg

“Scholars call it [the Torah] the Masoretic text. The Masoretes were Hebrew scribes of the first centuries of the present era. They fixed the…

— Herman Wouk

“Everywhere the Scriptures either demand change or assume its possibility. Since not all change is good, the Scriptures were written to give direction to…

— Jay E. Adams

“We must realize that even though the sacred text of the scriptures could never be improved or changed, flesh certainly can!”

— Ted Roberts

“Though the evidence from Scripture for editing and compiling is obvious and irrefutable, our failure to deal with it bit by bit in the…

— Alden Thompson

“For hardly any of the ecclesiastical writers have handled the Divine Scriptures more ineptly and absurdly than Origen and Jerome.”

— Martin Luther

“It was mainly developed as a political device to help build the power of the orthodox church and to help overcome the influence of…

— Dolores Cannon

“Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi, (for it is of…

— Thomas Paine

“Archaic Hebrew ... earliest inscriptions dating as far back as the close of the second millennium BCE.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos