How Can We Account for Variations Between Biblical Manuscripts?
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
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🗓️ 26 January 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Skeptics point to variations in the most ancient manuscripts of the New Testament in an attempt to disqualify their reliability. But is this truly the case? How can we reconcile the variations? How can we be sure of what the original copies said about Jesus, even if these original manuscripts are no longer available to us? J. Warner answers these questions in this video from a stage presentation from his book, Cold-Case Christianity.
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| 0:00.0 | Jay Warner Wallace is a cold case homicide detective who's been investigating |
| 0:06.4 | cold case murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade. His work has been |
| 0:10.0 | featured on Fox News, Dateline, and Core TV. Now, we join him as he applies his |
| 0:14.7 | investigative skills to making a case for Chrissianne. |
| 0:24.0 | One of the funnest things about working with standard reason is I get to spend |
| 0:27.8 | time now with one of my good friends for many years, Brett Conkel. I wanted this |
| 0:32.4 | before I even began. You probably saw a little bit of the teasing back and forth. |
| 0:35.1 | Once you all know, we love each other. Really, we are truly. Would you say we're |
| 0:38.2 | brothers? Seriously. So I do love him. So it's in that spirit that I'm about to |
| 0:41.9 | beat him mercilessly. Because I wanted you to see really some behind the veil of |
| 0:48.3 | Brett Conkel because, you know, his name really was not always Brett. For thousands |
| 0:52.9 | of years, it was Satan in case you were wondering. If that's too harsh, I want to |
| 0:58.3 | illustrate why he can say that to begin with. He's always teased me about my |
| 1:02.0 | advanced years, okay? Okay, fine, fine. As if he's not getting older, too. But he |
| 1:06.3 | always reminds me that I am older than him no matter how old he gets. That's |
| 1:10.4 | true. And so occasionally he'll tease me in public, which I think is not really |
| 1:13.6 | appropriate. I mean, I'd just started doing this recently. But I had a |
| 1:17.2 | mutual friend, for example, who came to a presentation and wrote something kind |
| 1:20.2 | of nice on Twitter. And so what did, what do you think Brett did? Well, Brett got |
| 1:23.8 | online and wrote, yes, at, at 92 years of age, Jim is a stud. See how that is? See |
| 1:30.9 | how he plays? So you're starting to see the horns are starting to emerge, aren't |
| 1:34.6 | they? So I thought this was okay. And I forgave him about this some time ago. But |
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