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How Can We Know the Bible is True?

How Can We Know the Bible is True?

Thursday, April 23, 2026
Let’s start with the uncomfortable part: Christians do not possess the original manuscripts of the Bible. No first-edition scrolls. No signed copies of Paul’s letters. No untouched original preserved somewhere beyond debate. What we have instead is messier than that — fragments, copies and a long history of transmission shaped by scribes, translators and centuries…