Fascinating Bible Fact #22  

Ever one keeps saying that the copies of the bible are just copies and can have a lot of mistakes in them but if you really beleive that the bible is the word of God I why couldn't God have controled the hand of those doing the copping? As I understand it those that coppied the bible all thoses years ago had a special rituals. They washed their hands and prayed before beginning to copy. The copy eas then read by one or two othere people and if ther was even a little mistake that copy was discarded and started over. The reason we have so many copies and translations today is because the publishers of these newer bible are in the business of making money. When the sales of bibles start to lage they come up with a new translation.
I think that it is wonderful that they keep finding this sort of thing. Could you state where you find this kind of information?

Wow that is very cool, do you have the link that you got this story from. I would love to read all.

Yes, of course, all Bible text we have today, dates from copies. But learning a little bit about the manner these copies were made, will convince us that the number of transcription errors is relatively low, and the numbre of sense changing errors is equal to nil. How do we know? For instance, from the Dead Sea rolls of Qumram.

Before this very eminent archaeological discovery, most ancient Hebrew Bible resources dated from the 9th century C.E. Qumram rolls are dated between 250-150 B.C., about thousand years older. But the differences between these two resources are minimal. This, because of the very careful and much supervised work of the copyists: word count on each papyrus, destruction of any copy not 100% perfect, and the profound respect they showed in general for the Scriptures, including personal purification and prayer befor starting a new page or even phrase.

The age of New Testament copies is very much closer to the time of their origin, so again, the possibility of substantial, sense-changing failure doesn't exist. Another fact that favors Scriptural fidelity, is the great number of copies in scholars' hands, compared to the number of copies existing of any other ancient text outstanding today.