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Answer this one for me! What about the Bible?. April 29, 2001. Homer (Iliad). When written – 900 B.C. Earliest Copy – 400 B.C. Time Span – 500 years Number of copies - 643. New Testament. When written – 40-100 A.D. Earliest Copy – 125 A.D. Time Span – 25 years Number of copies – 24,633.
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Answer this one for me!What about the Bible? April 29, 2001
Homer (Iliad) • When written – 900 B.C. • Earliest Copy – 400 B.C. • Time Span – 500 years • Number of copies - 643
New Testament • When written – 40-100 A.D. • Earliest Copy – 125 A.D. • Time Span – 25 years • Number of copies – 24,633
Variations? • Over 200,000! • pa,nta diV auvtou/ evge,neto( kai. cwri.j auvtou/ evge,neto ouvde. e[norouvde.[n o] ge,gonen • Only 400 places = ½ of 1%
Joshua 6:20 When the trumpets sounded, the people shouted…the wall collapsed; so every man charged straight in, and they took the city.
1 Corinthians 6:9 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Neither the sexually immoral… nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders…
1 Timothy 1:10 …for adulterers and perverts, for slave traders and liars and perjurers-- and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine.
John 20:31 But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.