How valid is the New Testament?

>>1744338
What do you mean by "valid"?

Council of Nicea basically rippped out all the parts that they didn't like.

>>1744369
Wrong on so many levels it's painful.

>>1744338
There are presently 5,686 Greek manuscripts in existence today for the New Testament.

There are 7 for Plato, 8 for Herodotus and 10 for Caesar.

The time difference between the events and the oldest known copy for the NT is about 25 years.

Same gap for Plato is 1.200 years, same gap for Herodotus is 1,300 years, and the same gap for Caesar is 1,000 years.

Textural criticism of the New Testament surviving copies, which number in the tens of thousands, demonstrates that the original autographs, which we do not have, were transmitted at approximately 99.5% accuracy over several thousand years.

There's nothing else that close, but for the Old Testament, which has been transmitted at 99.8% intact and above.

>>1744404
Nice source you have there

>>1744423
carm.org

Christian Apologetics Research Ministry

Great website.

>>1744404
>Old Testament, which has been transmitted at 99.8%
that doesn't mean much when the earliest manuscripts are from the 3rd century BC

>>1744426
2300 years of almost 100% intact transmission from rolled up charred and crumbling scrolls.

Takes a lot to impress you.

>>1744425
Yes, surely this is not biased.

>>1744429

Facts are facts.

>>1744440
Unsubstantiated claims are not facts, Christcuck.

>>1744404
What a load of shit

>>1744338
>lets discuss _____, a piece of literature

>This board is dedicated to the discussion of history and the other humanities such as philosophy, religion, law, classical artwork, archeology, anthropology, ancient languages, etc. Please use /lit/ for discussions of literature.

>>1744440
Except when they're conspiracies by Satan

>>1744447
Feel free to disprove any of them.

>>1744450
Documentation for one of the best selling books of all time is plentiful. Leave your cocoon and explore reality.

>>1744463
satan takes facts and twists them; it's usually not hard to see the twist. You just have to know your enemy.

>>1744470
I'll bother when you produce a credible source

>where's your evidence
>here you go
>No that's not evidence
>No its pretty accurate
>No its not
>Yes it is
>No
>Yes
>no
>yes

/his/ ladies & gentlemen

>>1744480
So you have no rebuttal.

>>1744480
The Oldest Surviving Manuscript of Plato's Tetralogies
(November 895)

Hunt, R.W., The Survival of Ancient Literature. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1975, No. 56.

>>1744480
Medieval minuscules[edit]
Codex Oxoniensis Clarkianus 39 — 895 AD; first six tetralogies, designated B.[2]
Codex Parisinus graecus 1807 — circa 900 AD; last two tetralogies and the apocrypha, designated A
Codex Venetus Marcianus graecus appendix classis 4, I, designated T
Codex Vindobonensis 54, supplementum phil. Gr. 7, designated W
Papyri[edit]
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 228 — Laches, fragment
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 229 — Phaedo, fragment
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 3509 — Republic, fragment containing 330a2–b4[3]
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 3679 — Republic, fragment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manuscripts_of_Plato%27s_dialogues

>>1744349

The only meaningful post in the entire fucking thread.

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>>1744425
>Christian Apologetics Research Ministry

>>1744544
Fantastic site. Highly recommend.

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>>1744338

It's a story book for small children.

>>1744563
Doubt I'd read the passion week to a small child, but whatevs.

Do me a favor and start reading Romans, then tell me how it's a child's story book.

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>>1744566
>Falling for the shitty fedora bait