Authenticity Quote by F. F. Bruce

The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of…

— Anonymous

“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

The variant readings about which any doubt remains among textual critics of the New Testament affect no material question of historic fact or of…

— F. F. Bruce

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

— Isaac Newton

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.

— Isaac Newton

“In my qualified opinion as a Biblical scholar, there is 'massive' and overwhelming historical evidence that the New Testament manuscripts are in fact reliable."…

— R. Alan Woods

The interval, then, between the dates of original composition and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact, negligible, and…

— Frederic G. Kenyon

“By an act of faith the Christian reader today may identify the New Testament, as it has been received, with the entire ‘tradition of…

— F.F. Bruce

“I am in complete alignment with my thinking with this statement by F. F. Bruce: 'Whether our approach is theological or historical, it does…

— R. Alan Woods

There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.

— F. F. Bruce

“Many modern Christians think of the New Testament as a book outside of history, something that was just suddenly there. Historians of Christianity, able…

— Jason BeDuhn

I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the…

— Charles Darwin