Authenticity Quote by R. Alan Woods

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

— Anonymous

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

“To the extent that it remains true to itself, the historical method not only has to investigate the biblical word as a thing of…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“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

“I have shown in all the foregoing parts of this work that the Bible and Testament are impositions and forgeries; and I leave the…

— Thomas Paine

And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt

— F. F. Bruce

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

— Craig Blomberg

“Archaeological research done in Bible lands has amazingly confirmed the reliability and historicity of the Scriptures in so many areas. Every part of the…

— Steve Kumar

“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

“Even in its canonical form a biblical document may be better understood if account be taken of successive stages in its composition. There”

— F.F. Bruce

“I regard the Bible, especially the Old Testament, the same as I do most other ancient books, in which there is some truth, a…

— Robert G. Ingersoll