Bible Quote by Neil R. Lightfoot

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

— Bart D. Ehrman

“The New Testament does not need to be rewritten, but it needs to reread.”

— Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg

“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

“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

Today there survives more than 25,0000 partial and complete, ancient handwritten manuscript copies of the New Testament. These hand written manuscripts have allowed scholars…

— Charlie Campbell

“In one of my earlier books, Misquoting Jesus, I discuss the fact that we do not have the original copy of Luke, or Mark,…

— 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

“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

“With respect to the books of the New Testament, particularly such parts as tell us of the resurrection and ascension of Christ, any person…

— Thomas Paine

“The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.”

— St. John Chrysostom

“The later writings of the Old Testament were composed in a degenerate type of Hebrew, often made more difficult by the introduction of archaic…

— James John Courtenay