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Originally Posted by photon
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.
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The 99.5% comes from biblical scholars. They cross reference any discrepancies between manuscripts.