A helpful piece from Justin Taylor:
The Original Text of the Bible
Even Though We Lack the Original Manuscripts
Justin Taylor 1:45 pm CT
Michael Kruger has a helpful post at TGC this morning making a helpful distinction about the reliability of the original text of Scripture:
But the original text is not a physical object. The autographs contain the original text, but the original text can exist without them. A text can be preserved in other ways. One such way is that the original text can be preserved in a multiplicity of manuscripts. In other words, even though a single surviving manuscript might not contain (all of) the original text, the original text could be accessible to us across a wide range of manuscripts.
