Christianity Quote by Marvin Perry

“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

“As we will see, there are lots of other discrepancies in the New Testament, some of them far more difficult to reconcile (virtually impossible,…

— Bart D. Ehrman

“While some of the earliest copies of non-biblical writings date to thousands of years later than their originals (Homer’s Odyssey is unusually good; only…

— Douglas M. Beaumont

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

“When it comes to the New Testament, we can be confident we are reading from accurate sources, because we have so many ancient copies…

— Douglas M. Beaumont

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

“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

I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of…

— Richard Cobden

At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original.…

— Daniel B. Wallace

“There are more differences among our manuscripts than there are words in the New Testament.”

— Bart D. Ehrman

“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 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