The Nature of Textual Variants 

What Are Textual Variants [Errors] and How Many Are There? The Greek New Testament was copied and recopied by hand for 1,500 years. Regardless of those scribes who had worked very hard to be faithful in their copying, errors crept into the text. How can we be confident that what we have today is the Word of God? SEE ARTICLE HERE uasvbible.org/2021/11/30/what-are-textual-variants-errors-and-how-many-are-there/

Textual Studies is the art and science (some would say only art) of determining the original text from variant readings exhibited by extant manuscripts. At present, a good deal of scientific methodology seems to be used as statistics, and computer processing is heavily employed. At the same time, however, TC is also faith-based (at least among conservative theologians), and the results are arguably impossible to verify. Faith plays a role in the belief by many that God has preserved His word somewhere among extant Greek manuscripts, which makes conjectural emendation unnecessary and unacceptable. As to verification, logic and the genealogical relationships between texts than can be constructed are often very convincing, but sometimes a decision is somewhat tenuous. Some critics would claim that no decision can really be verified, but many theories are accepted today without physical verification, on the strength of reasonable probability. NT Textual Studies Book Recommendations from Christian Publishing House FROM SPOKEN WORDS TO SACRED TEXTS: Introduction-Intermediate to New Testament Textual Studies by Edward D. Andrews www.amazon.com/dp/1949586987 Google eBooks: bit.ly/2VbIwVK THE NEW TESTAMENT DOCUMENTS: Can They Be Trusted by Edward D. Andrews www.amazon.com/dp/194958609X Google eBooks: [bit.ly/2YQOsnd] THE P52 PROJECT: Is P52 Really the Earliest Greek New Testament Manuscript? by Edward D. Andrews www.amazon.com/dp/1949586103 Google eBooks: [bit.ly/3c3SbT3] 400,000+ SCRIBAL ERRORS IN THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT MANUSCRIPTS: What Assurance Do We Have that We Can Trust the Bible? by Edward D. Andrews www.amazon.com/dp/1949586928 Google eBooks: bit.ly/2Z7ogI6 THE READING CULTURE OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY: The Production, Publication, Circulation, and Use of Books in the Early Christian Church Edward D. Andrews www.amazon.com/dp/1949586847 Google eBooks: bit.ly/2XS4J99 MISREPRESENTING JESUS: Debunking Bart D. Ehrman's "Misquoting Jesus" [Fourth Edition] by Edward D. Andrews www.amazon.com/dp/1949586952 THE COMPLETE GUIDE to BIBLE TRANSLATION: Bible Translation Choices and Translation Principles [Second Edition] Authored by Edward D Andrews www.amazon.com/dp/0692728716 BIBLE DIFFICULTIES: How to Approach Difficulties In the Bible by Edward D. Andrews www.amazon.com/dp/B084DLSBZ2 THE KING JAMES BIBLE: Do You Know the King James Version? By Edward D. Andrews www.amazon.com/KING-JAMES-BIB... Google eBooks: tiny.cc/ioi5wy THE KING JAMES BIBLE Why Have Modern Bible Translations Removed Many Verses That Are In the King James Version? by Edward D. Andrews www.amazon.com/dp/1949586960 Google eBook: bit.ly/2p3SFGn HISTORY OF ENGLISH VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE by Edward D. Andrews www.amazon.com/dp/1949586979 Google eBook: bit.ly/34LxisC THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS: The Early Christian Writings of Church Leaders Who Followed Soon After the Apostles of Jesus Christ by J. B. Lightfoot www.amazon.com/dp/B0863S9V9Q THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS: The Early Christian Writings of Churchmen Who Wrote about Christianity in the Late First and Early Second Centuries by Kirsopp www.amazon.com/dp/B085DT65NN THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS: Who Wrote the Book of Hebrews? by Edward D. Andrews www.amazon.com/dp/194958674X PAUL AND LUKE ON TRIAL: Dating Events Between 33 and 49 A.D. by Edward D. Andrews www.amazon.com/dp/1949586073 BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS I AM: Two Views on Translating John 8:58 by Edward D. Andrews www.amazon.com/dp/B0851LLH74 JESUS CHRIST: The Great Teacher by Edward D. Andrews www.amazon.com/dp/1949586839 THE TEACHER THE APOSTLE PAUL: What Made the Apostle Paul's Teaching, Preaching, Evangelism, and Apologetics Outstanding Effective? www.amazon.com/dp/1949586030 CONVERSATIONAL EVANGELISM, [Second Edition] by Edward D. Andrews www.amazon.com/dp/194575737X THE EVANGELISM HANDBOOK: How All Christians Can Effectively Share God's Word in Their Community, [SECOND EDITION], by Edward D. Andrews www.amazon.com/dp/1945757388 HOW RELIABLE ARE THE GOSPELS? by F. David Farnell www.amazon.com/dp/1949586650 IS THE QURAN THE WORD OF GOD?: Is Islam the One True Faith? www.amazon.com/dp/1945757493 THE GUIDE TO ANSWERING ISLAM: What Every Christian Needs to Know About Islam and the Rise of Radical Islam www.amazon.com/dp/1949586766 MOSAIC AUTHORSHIP CONTROVERSY: Who Really Wrote the First Five Books of the Bible? www.amazon.com/dp/1949586790