This video/audio demonstrates that the Bible translation you hold in your hand is an accurate representation of the text penned by the writers of the Bible.
Dr. Congdon presents a comparison of the reliability of our Bible to the reliability of the ancient writings of Plato, Tacitus, Herodotus, and Aristotle. That is, since we have no original manuscripts of any of these ancient writings, but only copies from a later date that when penned, can we trust what we are reading is what they wrote?
When compared, we find that our Bible has the greatest reliability with the shortest span or "gap" of time between original documents and oldest copies - greater by a factor of 10.
For example, there is a gap of 1450 years between Aristotle's original manuscript and our oldest copy of his writing. But the Bible has only a "gap" of 70 years to our oldest partial copy of the original. Yet, it is the Bible's accuracy that is questioned and not Aristotle's writings, why?
Following this look into literature, Dr. Congdon presents the history of our English Bible and a discussion of the manuscript families used to produce our English translations.
In succeeding programs, Bible students will learn how to use readily available tools on the Internet to assure themselves that your understanding of a passage is what God truly wrote.
These classes will show you how to use tools of Bible study - concordances, lexicons, Greek grammar, and more.
With the proper methodology, there remains no limit to the heart knowledge available to the student willing to prayerfully study and apply the rules of proper Bible interpretation.
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