The Origin of Scripture Part 2

CAN YOU TRUST YOUR BIBLE?:

Transmission and Formation

• THE OT: Anal Retentive for your Encouragement
  
  · Josephus : No one has ventured either to add, or to remove, or to alter a syllable.
  · Josephus said that a copy of the Hebrew Bible was rescued from the burning temple in 72 AD
  · Massoret 500-950


• Rules for Everything from details about how it was copied, Type of ink, Guidelines for margins, The breadth of lines, Size of Script, Number of columns on a page, Qualifications for spacing b/n letters, Rules for writing God’s name, Never alter the text
  
  Refused to change the text even slightly even if it would not alter meanings
  
  They counted every verse, word, and letter of the Hebrew bible. They knew how many letters were in each book.
  
  The Talmud said that the Prophet Ezra and his company of scribes counted all the letters of the law
  
  My son, be careful of your work, for your work is the work of heaven. Should you omit one letter or add one letter the whole world would be destroyed. R. Meir 200 BC
  
  


• THE NT: YOU KEEP WHAT YOU VALUE

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Matthew 5:17-19
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19 Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.