Hard Questions

Where can we get answers to some tough questions about Christianity and God?
The answers to the following questions are not intended to be exhaustive, but hopefully they will establish a beginning point for dialogue. Please feel free to respond back, or to check out some of the links at the end for more answers to your questions.
The questions listed below are answered in a running dialogue. It is probably better to read the whole document to see your question in the context of other difficult questions, because many answers are built upon previous answers.

How does the number of transcripts Christians have compare to some of the other ancient writings like those of Plato or Homer?

Hard Questions

This is very interesting! The copies of other ancient manuscripts are often many hundreds of years later than the originals. Sir Fredric Kenyon, one of the greatest authorities in the field of New Testament textual criticism, adds: "Scholars are satisfied that they possess substantially the true text of the principle Greek and Roman writers whose works have come down to us of Sophocles, of Thucydides, or Cicero, or Virgil; yet our knowledge of their writings depends on a mere handful of manuscripts (in some of the Greek & Roman writings, we have only a few copies), whereas the manuscripts of the New Testament are counted by hundreds, and even thousands." The New Testament has 5,300 known Greek manuscripts available.

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