The Bible is an unreliable set of documents and cannot be trusted ?

Myth # 7: The Bible is an unreliable set of documents and cannot be trusted.
This allegation has long been the subject of hundreds of books and articles and we certainly cannot expect to respond to it fully here. However, here are a few points that need consideration:
First of all, recent scholarship has dated the writing of the entire New Testament at between 50 and 100 A.D., or only 20 to 70 years after the events it records. This means it is quite probable that the New Testament was written either by eyewitnesses or by their close acquaintances – thus preserving an acceptable degree of accuracy.
Secondly, we have better and more ancient manuscripts of the New Testament than of any other piece of ancient literature. The oldest complete New Testament we possess (the Codex Sinaiticus) was copied in about 350 A.D., or about 250 years after the original was written. By contrast, the earliest available copies of Aristotle’s writings were made in 1100 A.D., or about 1400 years after they were originally composed. It doesn’t make sense to think we have an accurate copy of Aristotle’s Metaphysics but an inaccurate copy of the New Testament.
Thirdly, there are more than 13,000 surviving copies of various portions of the New Testament (including several thousand complete New Testaments) dating from ancient and medieval times. Close to 5,000 of these are in the original Greek language. There is thus a high probability of approximating the original documents. The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947. Dated 150 B.C.-150 A.D., these Scrolls contained large portions of the Old Testament. Except for minor variations, the text of the Scrolls is nearly identical with the text of more recent manuscripts. This is a strong evidence of accurate textual transmission.  We possess reliable manuscripts of the Old Testament.
Finally, archaeological evidence tends to confirm rather than disprove the biblical narratives. William F. Albright, one of the world’s outstanding archaeologists of the previous century, writes, “There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition . . . Archaeology makes it increasingly possible to interpret each religious phenomenon and movement in the Old Testament in light of its true background and real sources.”
To say, then, that the Bible is unreliable or untrustworthy is a dogma not based on the evidence. The Bible is among the most trustworthy of ancient documents.

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