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What would make a person think that the translations would cause a loss of meaning when we still have the original text in the original language? That's just silly, but a lot of people have been told this story. The people who teach that kind of thing are either ignorant or deceptive. There is a reason that some people would like this lie to be true. Fallen humanity does not want God to be God. Fallen humanity wants to do what fallen humanity wants to do. Fallen humanity wants the depraved human mind to be equal to or greater than the Word of God.

The original text has, indeed, been transcribed many times, and any educated person should know that we can be assured that it has been transcribed faithfully. We have ways that we can check that.

1. We have thousands of Greek and Hebrew manuscripts, differing only in very minor details. There are a couple texts that have more serious discrepancies, but it those don’t even agree with each other. If you have thousands that agree and one that does not, then the one is in error. Every translation is not 100% correct, but we have the original.
2. We know something about the method by which they were transcribed, and that explains why there would be such amazing consistency.
3. After spending massive amounts of time and money, not a single instance of any fraud or error has been found in the Bible. Many errors have been claimed, but not one of these claims has been able to stand up to scrutiny.
4. Many other historical writings confirm the validity of Scripture.  Many of these writings were hostile to Jesus and the God of the Bible.
5. No archaeological discovery has ever refuted any part of the Bible, but many have confirmed the Scripture.
6. The many enemies of Jesus and of the early church were unable to point out any fraud.  Some accused the apostles of fraud, and this accusation is recorded in the Bible, but the accusation is not logical.  It makes no sense.
7. Many ideas have been and continue to be brought forward to explain away the miracles of the Bible, but these suppositions, based on nothing but an overactive imagination, consistently have flaws in them.  Dreaming up an alternate way that things could have happened does not make the truth any less true, but it would seem that someone could make up a believable lie.  Interestingly, creative stories, like the story of evolution, consistently have devastating problems and inconsistencies that the historical account in the Bible does not have.
8. The early Christians, eye witnesses to the resurrection, were willing to die for this belief. No one dies for what they know to be a lie.
9. In the past, there were claims that the Bible was not written by the men who were supposed to have written it, but these claims have been shown to be false. There were also claims that the New Testament was written long after Christ’s resurrection, however these claims are irrational.
10. Facts have consistently reversed the conclusions of those who have tried to discredit the Bible.
11. We are comparing two competing entities: the written historical document, the Bible and the human ability to make up stories and rationalize, pull knowledge out of the air. Only a fool would prefer the latter.