| Can We
Trust the New Testament by Doy Moyer Can We Trust the New Testament by Doy
Moyer “Were the authors in a position to know? Historical Intent, Eye
witness claims, Luke 1:1-4” “Authorship established early”
“Why choose ” “Mark 1
or ” “Luke” ” if made up?” “Copies
reasonably close to the originals?””Over 5,800 Greek manuscripts
(from @ 50 to 1,500 yrs) Over 10,000 Latin manuscripts””Hundreds of
Coptic, hundreds of Syriac manuscripts””Over 2,000 more other
ancient translations”” “”The quotations by the church
fathers of the New Testament number””well over one million -and
counting”” (Reinventing Jesus, 81}.” “””The wealth of material
that is available for determining the wording of””the original New
Testament is staggering: more than fifty-seven hundred Greek New Testament
manuscripts, as many as twenty thousand versions, and more than one million
quotations by patristic writers. In comparison with the average ancient Greek
author,the New Testament copies are well over a thousand times more
plentiful. If the average-sized manuscript were two and one-half inches
thick, all the copies of the works of an average Greek author would stack up
four feet high, while the copies of the New Testament would stack up to over
a mile high! This is indeed an embarrassment of
riches.”””” Reinventin
Jesus, 82 |
