#376 Top Bible Scholar Debunks TikTok Bible Myths | Dr. Dan Wallace
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Alisa Childers
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🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
From viral TikTok claims to skeptical arguments popularized by comedians and progressive influencers, Christians are constantly told that the Bible was rewritten, corrupted, edited by kings and popes, and passed down like a giant game of telephone. But is any of that actually true?
In this conversation, I sit down with New Testament scholar Dr. Dan Wallace as he explains what textual criticism really is, how New Testament manuscripts were copied and preserved, what textual variants actually mean, and why the evidence for the reliability of the New Testament is far stronger than most people realize.
We discuss:
Whether the Bible was changed over time
The “telephone game” objection
Bart Ehrman and textual variants
How scholars determine the original wording of Scripture
Why manuscript differences don’t threaten core Christian doctrine
The history of canonization and transmission
Viral skeptical claims circulating online today
Why this conversation matters for Christians raising kids in a skeptical culture
If questions about the reliability of Scripture have ever unsettled you—or someone you love—this episode offers both historical depth and practical clarity.
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| 0:00.0 | Has the Bible been written, rewritten, translated a bunch of times, rewritten, rewritten, |
| 0:13.5 | rewritten again, edited, re-edited, translated again, all before it came to us in English? Did |
| 0:19.9 | the Emperor Constantine invent the version of Christianity |
| 0:22.9 | that we know today? Did early Christian scribes change the Bible? Well, these are all claims that |
| 0:29.5 | are often made on social media, and they're claims that are honestly deconstructing the faith |
| 0:33.8 | of so many people who grew up in the Christian church. Maybe you have encountered some of |
| 0:38.6 | these claims, and maybe some of them have even been made by some of your friends and family members |
| 0:43.6 | who have been influenced by these social media trends. First, I want to let you know about a few |
| 0:48.6 | things going on. So the first thing is the cross-examined instructor academy. Do you love apologetics? I'm guessing that if you |
| 0:56.4 | listen to this podcast, you are interested in topics like defending the Bible, giving reasons for |
| 1:02.0 | why Christianity is true. Well, if you've been studying that and you want to learn how to present that |
| 1:08.3 | information, whether it be on an online platform, maybe a podcast or a |
| 1:12.4 | YouTube channel, or maybe you just want to get better at teaching apologetics in your local church. |
| 1:18.6 | Well, you are going to want to come to the cross-examined instructor academy. This is actually |
| 1:23.3 | the three-day event that launched my entire ministry. Back in 2016, I attended cross-examined |
| 1:31.1 | Instructor Academy as a student. And back then, I didn't really want to start a podcast or a |
| 1:36.8 | YouTube channel or write books or do any of the things I'm doing today. I just simply wanted to |
| 1:41.7 | meet some of the people whose work was so influential in God rebuilding |
| 1:47.0 | my faith after an extreme time of doubt. And it was through that training event, just three |
| 1:52.9 | days together, presenting and then getting feedback and critiques, where I was really encouraged to |
| 1:58.7 | start a blog. And then I started my blog and the rest is history. |
| 2:02.1 | So if you're interested in learning how to do that better, or maybe you're just an apologetics nerd |
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