Were Are We Today in Terms of the Greek New Testament?
Today we have more copies and older copies of the Greek New Testament than the King James translators had. By comparing these thousands of copies experts try to figure out what the original text was. For example, if two manuscripts differ, the experts are likely to pick the one with the more difficult text. They figure that any change in the text would probably be made to remove a problem, rather than introduce one. I know this sounds like taking a scientific stab in the dark, but it really is more than that. Let’s say the first person in a group were given a hand-written copy of, say, Romans, and told to make an exact copy and hand her copy to the second person. The second person, in turn, would copy the first person’s work and hand it to the third, etc. You can make some pretty good guesses as to what kind of errors will get into the text this way. If all the copies were placed in a pile, which one would you think would be the most accurate? Probably one of the first, that is, one of
