"The Bible has changed down through
the ages."
No, it hasn’t. God
has preserved His Word. In the spring of 1947, the Dead
Sea Scrolls were discovered. These manuscripts were
copies of large portions of the Old Testament, a thousand
years older than any other existing copies. Study of
the scrolls has revealed that the Bible hasn’t
changed in content down through the ages as many skeptics
had surmised. (See 1 Peter 1:25 footnote.)
Anyone can now obtain access
to computer programs that give the original Hebrew and
Greek words, and the only "changes" have been
made for clarity. For example, the old English translation
of 2 Corinthians 12:8 is "For this thing I besought
the Lord thrice ...," while a contemporary translation
is "Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord
three times..."
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