A long time listener to the podcast writes and asks, this, Pastor John, how can I trust

the Bible if there have been so many add-ins, such as Mark chapter 16 verses 9 to 20?

And John chapter 7 verse 53 to chapter 8 verse 11.

And of course, first John 5 verses 7 and 8.

If these verses have been added into the Bible and should not have been, how do we know

that other things have not been added into the Bible as well?

The answer precisely to the question, as it's posed, is that we use the same criteria to

know about other passages that we used to know that these three texts were editions.

In other words, if there is a science that can spot these three texts that he mentioned

as not part of the original biblical manuscripts, then that same science in the same way can

perform the same function for all the other passages.

There's the answer.

Now let's step back and paint the larger picture.

The Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek.

These before the printing press, right, printing press invented about 1450 AD.

First original language, biblical manuscript printed 1516.

That means that these handwritten documents called manuscripts were handed down by human

copying for centuries.

And the question really is, do we have today the same Greek and Hebrew text in front

of us to translate into English or whatever language or to read in Greek and Hebrew?

Do we have the same text that corresponds essentially with the original documents that

God inspired when they wrote them down?

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