Love this series so far. It's what 2 years in Bible college taught me in 10 minute series. Totally sharing this on Facebook if that's OK. I also like the fact you left the end open as to not prevoke an argument about whether God is real. It keeps it in the middle and allows people sharing it to open more to the gospel. Stay awesome
@marygrech7644
5 жыл бұрын
Bible collage don't teach you the truth
@Polyglot_English
3 жыл бұрын
🤙 Determinism is Freedom 🤙
@johndy9571
2 жыл бұрын
Buddha's sutras were way older than the bible but they can still be found.
@BryGy
6 жыл бұрын
Fascinating experiment where you recreate the poem from the kids' copies. Really good idea. And..... Han Shot First!
@Polyglot_English
3 жыл бұрын
🤙 Determinism is Freedom 🤙
@katiehelms8903
3 жыл бұрын
It is a very interesting video! *Han did in fact shoot first*
@georgechristiansen6785
2 жыл бұрын
ONLY Hans shot.
@BryGy
2 жыл бұрын
@@georgechristiansen6785 Point taken! I agree 💯
@sjappiyah4071
5 жыл бұрын
Seeing the comparison between New Testament manuscripts verses others were FASCINATING
@RyoriNoTetsujinfan
6 жыл бұрын
Is that papyrus font on a papyrus background?
@RyoriNoTetsujinfan
6 жыл бұрын
#papyrusception
@MattWhitmanTMBH
6 жыл бұрын
+RyoriNoTetsujinfan "I know what you did James Cameron!"
@LyleB314
6 жыл бұрын
Yes, and was, I have zero doubt in my mind, selected for that exact reason!
@arthurlima923
5 жыл бұрын
hahahah
@destinsandlin745
6 жыл бұрын
Great video man.
@stustjohn
6 жыл бұрын
Destin Sandlin Hi Destin, just wanted to say thank you so much for your great work on KZitem. SED is one of my go-to places as a Physics teacher and NDQs has firmly established itself as my podcast of choice to listen to while doing house chores! (They are often so good that I look for extra jobs to do so that I can keep on listening!!)
@lclyd
6 жыл бұрын
pretty sure that's not the real Destin, since he often comments with his Smarter Everyday account here
@andyjones7121
6 жыл бұрын
Monkey Monkey So you don't listen to men, just God? Clever. Just one question. Was Mohammed a man?
@andyjones7121
6 жыл бұрын
Monkey Monkey I respect your beliefs, but I'm curious. Why is everything one man (Muhammad) says credible, but many people reading thousands of texts and agreeing on exactly what was written isn't credible? I'm trying to understand why one man's writing must be from God, but many men agreeing on a common writing isn't. It just seems disingenuous, but maybe I misunderstood you.
@metalheadmailman992
5 жыл бұрын
Incredible video! Simple yet profound...you have a clear, concise manner of communicating your points and this is exactly what I was looking for to answer my questions. God bless you and your family.
@protochris
5 жыл бұрын
Here's the biblical motto I use on copies "God allows the dust, but doesnt allow the rust". Unlike a copy machine, the biggest scriptural problem is not what's been taken away, but what is added. Nowhere on a copy machine does anything get added, only diminished. Textually, there's next to no evidence anything has been lost, only embellished.
@ConnorTerrell
4 жыл бұрын
MegaMan sfx!? In a Bible video!? This makes me happy.
@TheSmilegirl951
4 жыл бұрын
Dude I can't tell you how much I love your channel. Thank you for existing, pls keep content coming. Also, the way you always make it an open ended, conversation starter, that's just who you are, you don't have a hidden agenda with it and I love that, it's rarer than you know
@MattWhitmanTMBH
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for saying that Yanislava! I can’t tell you how much I appreciate hearing from people who are tracking with what I’m going for here. Thank you!
@johndy9571
2 жыл бұрын
Buddha's sutras were way older than the bible but they can still be found.
@GodlogicProject
4 жыл бұрын
This is a GREAT explanation of an important topic. Matt... you’re a blessed intellectual and relatable communicator. I encourage you to keep producing quality videos. And how cool is it that you know the ‘Smarter Every Day’ dude! 😜
@AlexCFaulkner
6 жыл бұрын
Quality of video was really great! Nice explanation. Cool to have a little interview and interaction with others, fun music, and nice Mega Man reference!
@andyjones7121
6 жыл бұрын
Destin's rubbing off on you. You did a science! Actually, you did a few different sciences! Nice job, sciencer!
@Polyglot_English
3 жыл бұрын
🤙 Determinism is Freedom 🤙
@imfromzwolle
6 жыл бұрын
Love what you're doing with this series.
@itisnow87
2 жыл бұрын
Man.. I just loved your presentation
@TiciaM
6 жыл бұрын
Perfect timing on this. Our small group is working on teaching on how to teach kids apologetics, and this was a long discussion a few weeks ago. We watched a video from a former Christian turned atheist lecturing on the discrepancies in the Bible (of course it was easy to pick apart his arguments because he never gave specifics of what the discrepancies were and he was obviously speaking out of anger). In your 10 minute video you have demolished an argument he took an hour to build (with a lot of repetitions).
@dabeamer42
6 жыл бұрын
Hi Ticia. Great idea of exposing kids to this. I have a hard time bringing up this topic in our adult Bible study -- the folks just aren't that interested. Be aware that there are opponents (like the atheist you mention) whose academic credentials, quality of arguments, and mode of arguing, are much more respectable than that guy. I'm thinking people like Bart Ehrman here. He teaches at Duke, and has written popular-level books on the topic. But his erudition doesn't make him right.
@TiciaM
6 жыл бұрын
Bart Ehrman is actually the person I was referring to, I just didn't remember his name when I commented. I watched an hour-long talk he did, and in his talk, he repeated himself several times, he never gave concrete examples, and when he says thousands of errors, he's talking spelling or word order errors. I know academically he's very respected, but the couple of videos I saw I could pick apart his arguments easily.
@benrex7775
5 жыл бұрын
@@TiciaM lol, that was a great comeback. XD
@nonprogrediestregredi1711
5 жыл бұрын
@@TiciaM Seriously?! You're picking apart an hour long lecture(s) and considering that good enough?! How about you actually read his books, which are far more in depth, and then try to refute his arguments? He's very well respected because he's earned that respect. Typically, they don't let uninformed/uneducated scholars write new testament textbooks for ivy league schools.
@nonprogrediestregredi1711
5 жыл бұрын
@@dabeamer42 Bart Ehrman doesn't teach at Duke; he teaches at UNC Chapel Hill. Mark Goodacre is the new testament professor at Duke. Bart Ehrman has never taught there, only at Rutgers and UNC Chapel Hill. If you're going to try to smear the guy, you might want to at least get his credentials correct. You do realize that you could have googled that information, right? And no, his erudition doesn't necessarily make him right; the validity of his arguments are what matter most. Until you've addressed those, you have no reason to dismiss him. As I stated in my previous comment on this thread, it says quite alot to his knowledge/perspective that he is enlisted to write new testament textbooks for ivy league schools. And as for your "great idea exposing kids to this" comment, I think indoctrination of children is disgusting. If they want to believe when they are psychologically matured and understand logic and critical thinking, then that should be their choice to make. Ingraining them with a belief at an early age, especially a religious faith based belief, is irresponsible to say the least.
@PhilipThompson
5 жыл бұрын
These videos are excellent, thank you.
@Juntaski
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you explaining this in such an objective, clear and unbias way! I am a Christian and I also love science. Thank you for bridging the two together!
@LyleB314
6 жыл бұрын
Well done Matt! This video is awesome. So are you.
@FlatlineLancer
6 жыл бұрын
Good work, I like the experiment as well. Thank you for adding valuable content that helps people think intelligibly about the most significant issue of their lives. I really appreciate you and Destin and am thankful for having learned about your channel from getting to know you through the "No Dumb Questions" podcast. I think, of late, another blessing to me has been Tim Mackie (Main contributor to "The Bible Project") and if you've not been turned on to him, I urge you to consider looking into his exploration of biblical themes.
@GeekSpeakDesign
6 жыл бұрын
Nicely done! I spent yesterday afternoon monkeying around on the roof putting up lights & listening to your sermon on the Protestant reformation. It was super informative & gave me a better understanding on what sacrifices were made for our benefit
@kylereitsma7101
6 жыл бұрын
Where do you listen to his sermons?
@GeekSpeakDesign
6 жыл бұрын
Kyle Reitsma Sermons - Lander Evangelical Free Church Sunday sermons and other lessons from Sunday School classes Via my podcast app Subscribe: feed://lander-efree.squarespace.com/sermons?format=rss www.landerefree.org/sermons/
@imfromzwolle
6 жыл бұрын
Search any podcast player for "Lander Evangelical Free Church". My personal recommendation would be to jump in on his Sermon on the Mount Series starting with the Beatitudes at the beginning of Matthew chapter 5. His deep dive into Ephesians is pretty great, too.
@kylereitsma7101
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you DJ Martinez! I will look into that series!
@andyjones7121
6 жыл бұрын
Jarrett Hall Thanks for the link! He never mentioned those. What other secrets is this mysterious man hiding? Just when I think I know some guy on the internet, I learn he's living a secret life, posting sermons and not even telling ME, his buddy? Doesn't subscribing to someone's KZitem channel MEAN anything anymore? Who ARE you Matt? If that's your real name. Anyway, listened to the "sermon on the mount", then bookmarked for later. 45 minutes is long, but if it wasn't 12:30am, I'd listen to another one. I like the relatable analogies that actually make sense and add value to the subject matter. What happened to my life? I'm getting excited to listen to a bunch of sermons?! Don't tell Matt I liked it. He didn't tell me they even existed, so why should I tell him anything? That'll teach him to respect me. If he asks, I'll say I fell asleep after 5 minutes.
@stustjohn
6 жыл бұрын
Hi Matt, just been catching up on all your NDQs over the past fortnight. They are fab, as is this video. You, sir, are an inspiration to me. Keep up the great work!!
@JohnSmith-cy6lo
2 жыл бұрын
Great study bro! Cross my minds your questions with no solutions
@katherinetutschek4757
3 жыл бұрын
All your videos are so good👏👏
@stevenlara4441
4 жыл бұрын
For anyone that doubts it still,.. see Dr. Daniel Wallace and his research on this in depth. He is the founder of- the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts.He is actually the guy who is personally digitizing every NT greek manuscript in the entire world.
@sanjaymalwe3529
3 жыл бұрын
Superb explanation. Well done
@chrisrambo6810
4 жыл бұрын
I just wanna say this video is eye opening and reassuring and just makes me feel good thank you!
@davidstuver2004
6 жыл бұрын
Hey Matt, really awesome episode. I really liked how you got those kids to copy the poem as a practical experiment. I have gotten into many discussions about the validity of the early manuscripts and so on. It is really eye opening how much evidence points to at least a single working document. That said, why isn't this spoken about more? I feel this should be common knowledge about the considering the fact that scholars have been studying these texts for thousands of years and so many people's lives have been affected by said texts. Thanks for all your hard work. Also Han shot first. Please fix.
@dimesonhiseyes9134
6 жыл бұрын
to answer your question about why isn't this spoken about more its rather simple, Most pastors and churches don't invest the time and energy required to really lay out why we believe what we believe. instead they give platitudes and bullet points.
@curiousfirely
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this series! Its ao great knowing more about the bible beyond the stories!
@kylereitsma7101
6 жыл бұрын
Well done, as always! Keep up the good work!
@sagesarabia5053
2 жыл бұрын
You’re awesome brother.
@pauljburgess7423
6 жыл бұрын
Really enjoying this series. Great info.
@drc97086
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you, once again, Matt.
@EmethMatthew
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for also pointing out the difference in arguments about whether the Bible is a verifiable historical document and whether what it says actually happened. Plenty of Christians themselves would still argue that the Olympian gods in Homer's writings didn't actually exist either, so it isn't unreasonable for people to question/argue/discuss the supernatural stuff in the Bible either. Plenty of historians argue over how much of Julius Caesar's writings actually happened as well (#fakenews), but we are still talking about some of the most well documented ancient texts, so we know with a good degree of certainty that these are the same words that ancient people had in front of them to read also AND that quite a lot of these words were written down within the lifetimes of those people who were being written about...
@fraziamuzigose2447
8 ай бұрын
You have earned a new subscriber 😊😊😊
@610garage
6 жыл бұрын
Wait, somone got Smarter Everyday in my Ten Minute Bible Hour. :) I like the fact that you actually tested the hypothesis of statistical analysis on defragmenting documents. ;) With kids no less. :)
@nicholaslombardo5809
4 жыл бұрын
That is probably the coolest part of this
@Polyglot_English
3 жыл бұрын
🤙 Determinism is Freedom 🤙
@Rain-fz6ny
5 жыл бұрын
Great explaination. But how do we know for certain that the "original" poem, which you give for children to copy, original? 🤔
@BatMite19
4 жыл бұрын
Because Robert Frost lived in modern society (died 1963), where his works were published in his lifetime, proofread by him, mass-printed on presses, and available in bookstores and libraries. But that's not what you were really asking, is it?
@GideonAbochie
4 жыл бұрын
Ths is so important!! Good job.
@IshmaelSalem
4 ай бұрын
Beautiful 🌻🌻🌻
@ProdigalSon_8
6 ай бұрын
This is the best video I’ve seen on this ❤❤❤❤❤
@GourmetBurrito
6 жыл бұрын
I've been loving the series. Just a quick question. There are verses or excerpts that are footnoted with *not in earlier manuscripts. How do those passages come about?
@matthewboland5598
6 жыл бұрын
Great video Matt!
@rickfrmwy
6 жыл бұрын
It's great that Vikings got put with natural disasters. Great idea using the poem and younger students. This is a great series of videos. Thank you.
@cristianradu2306
7 ай бұрын
What about intentional changes in the early copies? We have some if we compare it to Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanicus. Was this changes the reason why we don't have any originals? Not even fragments to compare with what we have today.
@samuelcooley9102
6 жыл бұрын
Awesome Matt. Really enjoyed this one.
@slpk
6 жыл бұрын
Dude you're so cool -Mom
@josephcox6632
5 жыл бұрын
Nicely done.
@rositaortiz9438
4 жыл бұрын
This was fun to watch! 👍🏻
@Cliff_Dixon_42
3 жыл бұрын
"With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything's far away. Everything's a copy of a copy of a copy." -- an unnamed narrator who sees flashes of T. Durden (notably while at a photo copier). But one has to wonder if an overworked, overstressed monk centuries earlier said the same thing, with similar results . . .
@DAVOinIN
6 жыл бұрын
Resident Atheist Here: Could you post your sources for those studies which evaluated the copies vs each other. It is great to hear they match up, but it is better to see for one's self.
@matthewrobles3454
6 жыл бұрын
You could probably do that yourself with a quick Google search. No (respected) scholars disagree that the New Testament is a reliable historical document. As for the Old Testament, the Dead Sea Scrolls pretty much cover that.
@DAVOinIN
6 жыл бұрын
Matthew Robles, Thanks for your response. I'm actually quite well aware, but I wanted to hear Matt's sources and evaluate them myself.
@Pandaemoni
4 жыл бұрын
I would love to see you address this with Religion for Breakfast, as he's also great, though he studies religion from a non-devotional perspective. Plus, I would guess your audiences have similar interests but perhaps don't overlap much.
@nosuchthing8
3 жыл бұрын
No there might be cross over
@dabeamer42
6 жыл бұрын
Ah, Textual Crit. My favorite class in seminary. Really. I enjoy digging in to the apparatus (that's the term for the footnotes Matt pointed to, where the scholars give reasons for and against a given reading). I was a teeny bit disappointed that Matt made it all the way thru without mentioning the phrase "Textual Criticism". That would have made my day.
@Qenton
6 жыл бұрын
Very nicely done. So what you are really saying is that Han Solo shot first, and that however much George Lucas tried to change it you can still reliably reconstruct the original Star Wars movie from the existing copies, even if Lucas burned the original negatives?
@HApqzr77
6 ай бұрын
P52 is earliest dated 125-175 AD, 30-80 years after John is thought to have been written. It is comprised of only four verses of John. P66 is dated around 200 AD and contains most of John. P75 is dated 175-225 and contains much of Luke and John. The earliest full version of the NT is Codex Sinaiticus, dated around 330-360 AD. Before that, there were only fragments. I don’t know how we can be confident that the Bible didn’t undergo significant revision and the development prior to extant fragments much less the significantly later completed NT manuscript. I’m not sure how the Robert Frost exercise addresses this.
@clarenceoliveriii
4 жыл бұрын
Great video, I went to a Christian college and this is teaching that took a whole semester to examine and you broke it down in a clear and understandable video🔥
@drewbroodie
4 жыл бұрын
Extract from Wikipedia on the "Rylands Library Papyrus P52: "The original editor proposed a date range of 100-150 CE;[5] while a recent exercise by Pasquale Orsini and Willy Clarysse, aiming to generate consistent revised date estimates for all New Testament papyri written before the mid-fourth century, has proposed a date for 52 of 125-175 CE.[1] But a few scholars say that considering the difficulty of fixing the date of a fragment based solely on paleographic evidence allows the possibility of dates outside these range estimates, such that "any serious consideration of the window of possible dates for P52 must include dates in the later second and early third centuries."
@backedupwithtruth7525
4 жыл бұрын
If the Good Lord is able to keep this entire universe afloat, He is certainly able to preserve and maintain His Word throughout the ages. Great video 👌
@leviwilliams9507
4 жыл бұрын
We keep finding older and older copies.... they always are the same. GOD IS NOT A LIAR! AMEN!
@doitordont6150
4 жыл бұрын
The problem is We don't know if someone added or taken away from the original from the beginning. Also these are 1000s of words where each word can have multiple meanings coming from a language that we can barely translate into English to get the true Translation. So in other words its copies of copies but also language to language and different interpretations
@Peekingduck
4 жыл бұрын
Respectfully I thought there were a big problem with dating the gospels. From what I have been able to dig up it's a bit of a guess work for most. Christian scholars seem to date them closer to the death of Jesus, while non Christians are more careful. What are your sources for the years in your video if you don't mind me asking? Also when you claim that the fragment was "written by John" do we now know who he was? The jury has been out on that one for a while I thought, or am I wrong?
@benjaminbuckmaster3328
6 жыл бұрын
Love the new look logo + text boxes
@jasonpratt5126
6 жыл бұрын
I am disturbed by your lack of SECRET TORTURE BASEMENTS as the source for the UBS (or Nestle-Aland) there.
@jasonpratt5126
6 жыл бұрын
But seriously, scholars do textual reclamation work on other pre-printing-press texts (and some post-press, too, like the Gettysburg Address), based on methods that were invented specifically to detect the original form of copy-variant texts in religious documents mostly, and the NT is the key example for how the science works. (...and art. Some of the solutions are admittedly educated guesses, but most of even those are trivial to the meaning. And no doctrinal issues hang on various remaining unresolved questions.)
@XionProductions
6 жыл бұрын
Well done
@alatterdaysaintonfire5643
5 жыл бұрын
I love your commentary. I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day saints, and it was nice to hear reasonable comments about the Bible.
@RGTomoenage11
5 жыл бұрын
I hope Christ guides you to TRUTH.
@rafaelgabrielsantos1246
4 жыл бұрын
Wow...marvelously done!
@CodyDWorks
6 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU! I love this series and have recently made some family really mad because I worded something wrong. Ok so I said that saying the KJV was the only viable translation was ignorant. People don't like being called ignorant... And I was wrong to not clarify my point further. God bless and may the Peace of Christ be with you!
@arturkvieira
4 жыл бұрын
Congratulations on this video, this is a very insightfull experiment!
@YusufDjuly
3 жыл бұрын
How about doing your fun poem in another language then try to ask someone to reconstruct it word by word in context to another language to define the meaning? I mean didn't you realize this? I mean why English?
@juliekovacic
6 жыл бұрын
Brilliant experiment with the poem!
@reds7vn644
4 жыл бұрын
The oldest New Testament transcript is from the 4th Century (325AD - 380AD). So that makes the oldest transcript of the New Testament 1695 - 1640 years old. Now before anyone jumps up and down the oldest fragment of the New Testament or what is proclaimed to be was written in the 3rd Century 250AD. but that's not a transcript that's just a fragment that has just 2 single letters on it. Then we have the oldest known Greek New Testament. Papyrus 52 is the earliest extant Greek New Testament fragment. (2nd or 3rd Century) Papyrus 52 has never been radiocarbon dated. There are some major issues with P52. First, the papyrus has been dated based on the handwriting alone, without the support of dated textual references or associated archeology. Secondly, like all other surviving early Gospel manuscripts, this fragment is from a codex, not a scroll. If it dates from the first half of the second century, this fragment would be amongst the earlier surviving examples of a literary codex. Until they radiocarbon date P52 it will be disputed.
@connerhoagland9811
6 жыл бұрын
Great video! It would be cool if you did a video comparing the Moses theory and multiple authors theory of the Old Testament.
@sarw9294
2 жыл бұрын
“We have” all these copies, but where? Museums?
@davejohnson9462
6 жыл бұрын
EXCELLENT.
@MartFish
6 жыл бұрын
Sooo good love the experiment too, what a brilliant presentation of the information. Awesome, love mum :)
@gregisaacs7091
Жыл бұрын
Wondering why it was never written as a stele. Or maybe we just haven't found that yet, that's a possibility.
@Saxon360
5 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty late to the party but I can't find anyone else mentioning this so I'll included it. Alexandria was the gateway to Africa at that time, especially if you are coming from the areas Christianity got its start. It was also one of the largest trading hubs of the Mediterranean world at the time so it would definitely make sense if that would have been one of the first places Christianity spread to. Anyone that stopped at Alexandria possessing any sort of written text had that text confiscated with a copy of it returned to them. The library of Alexandria kept the originals and the person that brought the text there got a fresh copy. The Library of Alexandria burned in 48AD. It is very possible that some of the original manuscripts written directly by the apostles were lost just 15 years after Christ's death.
@rev.jon2277
3 жыл бұрын
Time to appreciate those who are responsible to it and the Visible Church Authority
@matywan
6 жыл бұрын
All in all, in the light of all the VHS copies we have and it the context of the display setup, we can clearly deduct that Han's gun position is wrong and should be down, ready to shoot first! (perfect illustration sir!) All later copies are a vain attempt to please an easily offended culture by making small changes. Did i just discovered the subject of the next Video? What are the small changes that have made their way to most of our "traditional" Bibles? like the end of the Lord's Prayer for example...
@dabeamer42
6 жыл бұрын
That's a good question. (The Lord's Prayer part...not the Han Solo VHS part...) A proper answer would take a long explanation. Let me try a short (i.e. inadequate) one: the King James (where that "long version" of the prayer is) was translated from Greek manuscripts that are kinda like the 34th copy in Matt's starting example. Those manuscripts were much farther removed in time (e.g. 12th to 14th century) than the papyrus samples Matt showed. In other words, the KJV (and, frankly, all English Bibles translated before the 20th century) was based on Greek manuscripts that were -- and I'm choosing my words carefully here -- about as inaccurate as they come (compared to the originals). And they were still plenty accurate to give us a really good idea of what Jesus and Paul (et al) said. To put it another way: there are no significant Christian doctrines that are impacted by the errors in the copies. Is your faith (or lack thereof) significantly impacted by the presence or absence of "for thine is the power and the glory..." etc? No. Is it important to try to get the original text as right as possible? Absolutely! This particular field of study is called Textual Criticism, and it was my favorite class in seminary. Or was that obvious...?
@IamGrimalkin
6 жыл бұрын
Although it is worth noting that particular passage does appear on the Didache (which Matt mentioned last episode, and was probably how it ended up in Matthew in the first place); so it seems credible to me that Jesus said that version of the Lord's Prayer on some occasions.
@donavannaidoo3289
5 жыл бұрын
Great video excellent work n experiment. This is exactly what we learn from. Thanx mate keep up the super work
@matthewlallinger9603
5 жыл бұрын
I would also add the method God ordained to preserve His word is far superior than using originals. If we had the originals, but not many manuscripts, then the original could be altered or destroyed fairly easily. With 5,000+ manuscripts, errors are far less likely; there is safety in numbers.
@Laura-qp9iw
6 жыл бұрын
Really great video!
@manuelfaelnar4794
5 жыл бұрын
-"As one who has not bought into the conventional wisdom concerning 'recovery of the lost text,' I find it refreshing that the Eastern Church has available a Greek text which, while probably not perfect, is as close as we may come to the original today. Instead of one determined by a vote of 5 or 6 scholars, this text is the one commonly received by the Greek and Russian churches from time immemorial. As a Protestant Christian I delight in honoring my Orthodox friends who have preserved this text when the entire western church had defaulted to a translation, Jerome's Latin Vulgate, and now has widely accepted theories which do not accord with the historical record we have. For instance, a recent Greek edition in the west is done with the overt assumption that changes in the ancient text were done by men of good will, when the fathers repeatedly have written that there were intentional corruptions which had crept in as early as the first few centuries. I trust Christians in the Nicene age to be better judges of the original than Americans in the twentieth century." Thomas E. Martin -"This Beautiful book presents the Eastern Orthodox Church's traditional or patriarchal Greek text of the New Testament. [...] To this extent, it is useful to have direct access to the traditional text of one significant section of Christianity; and for the preservation of the Greek New Testament text, this is the most important part - the Greek Orthodox Church. [...] This Patriarchal Text appears to be mid-way between the MT and Textus Receptus. The book is a delightful reference for what the late Byzantium church used for its liturgy." Peter McGowan
@rachelitobandito
3 жыл бұрын
Ah! Thank you for this video.
@Th3Pr0digalS0n
3 жыл бұрын
Is there a version of this for the "Old" testament ?
@frankojudoka
2 жыл бұрын
You can believe but reality is reality. The more mysterious it is, the more people believe in it.
@libertas12
6 жыл бұрын
Your Videos are well done. Obviously you put a lot of work in them.
@MattWhitmanTMBH
6 жыл бұрын
+Chris Bau thanks Chris, they are a ton of work, but I enjoy doing it.
@libertas12
6 жыл бұрын
Keep up the good work !
@SuperRevelations
3 жыл бұрын
Such a good way of explaining it!
@arnoldprado2348
2 жыл бұрын
They should have written the whole Bible in stone just like the Hammurabi Code.
@shanestrickland5006
4 жыл бұрын
The old testament is all we have as fare as originals. Their are one or two exeptions though. The book's in the new testament we don't know who wrote them. The names of the gospels were added to in 184 AD . So we don't know who wrote the new testament. Not to mention the person that gave us the bible as we know it was a pagen emperor. He comprised the book's and gave them name's. We can not know when the new testament was lost. So don't you think it's hard to say that we know for certain we can say what the original Greek manuscripts say ? Not to mention most biblica scholars agree that the new testament should be taken with a grain of salt. This is why scholars are still are in debate about it's reliability. You have a certain subgroup such as fundamentalist scholars which deny that .
@jackleung7254
4 жыл бұрын
Is the original stored in Vatican library? They have the earliest authority to keep those documents.
@versioncity1
4 жыл бұрын
There is no "original" - the earliest fragments of 'the bible" are kept in various museums. The dead sea scrolls & the Silver Scrolls, which are the oldest parts of the hebrew bible/OT are in Israel. The Codex Sinaiticus which is the earliest known (part) copy of the 'New testament' dating from around 4thCE is in the British Museum.
@jackleung7254
4 жыл бұрын
@@versioncity1 Thanks information. I just wonder why didn't the early Christian community keep a copy of the new testament in jars just like the people in the Dead sea did.
@versioncity1
4 жыл бұрын
@@jackleung7254 They possibly did, it doesn't mean they survived or have been found. What we have are fragments of things. There was no "new testament" until the 3rd/4th CE.
@ahmedsheriffdeen
3 жыл бұрын
What about the intentional additions by scribes.
@DC-wp6oj
27 күн бұрын
Apart from fragments, the first complete NT was written 3-500yrs after Jesus. The fragments are TINY portions and there are no first century fragments. P52 is dated to around years 125-175. Not only that no historian can name who wrote the gospels. Nobody knows, they’re attributed to a disciple later to differentiate between the different gospels. You could have called them WXYZ or Tom, Fred, Bob, Harry.
@peruseperusing5027
4 жыл бұрын
Awesome clip!! :)
@nosuchthing8
3 жыл бұрын
But you can make endless copies of computer files and they dont degrade. Perhaps the holy spirit acts as spiritual error correcting code.
@dantamamasbait645
3 жыл бұрын
Well explained. Thanks 😊
@HugSkaltuDeila
5 жыл бұрын
Poor Darryl
@gabepenn7386
3 жыл бұрын
The Library of Alexandria had it all
@DenNavnlos
6 жыл бұрын
You may be the worst Christian, but you’re nailing these videos. I love the actual physical test of replication of text. It’s more reassuring than anything to see that scripture is as human as it is Godly, and that its construction is far more logical than a surface-level view. Well done.
@gypsysfriend5513
6 жыл бұрын
Dude, you make sense. 👍
@davidbergeron3355
4 жыл бұрын
Biblical Hebrew, sometimes called Classical Hebrew, is an archaic form of the Hebrew language. The very first translation of the Hebrew Bible was into Greek. This is known as the Septuagint (LXX), which later became the received text of the Old Testament in the Catholic church and the basis of its canon.
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