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Originally Posted by Wiggum_PI
The accuracy of the New Testament manuscripts is 99.5% in comparison to Homer's Illiad which is 95% accurate. If the bible is to be discredited, then what about other ancient texts?
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What do those percentages mean? Accurate with respect to what? How were they arrived at? Who claims this 99.5%?
And I don't know what you mean about the Bible being discredited, discredited in what way? That it's a collection of books written sometime between 40 and hundreds of years after Jesus' death? No one discredits that. That the writings were part of the foundation of what would become the world's most powerful religion? No one discredits that.
As I said, acknowledging the changes in the manuscripts over the centuries doesn't discredit Christianity in general, or else there would be no Christian scholars who research and publish and teach the Bible from a historical critical point of view.