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Why were some books left out of the Bible?

6.4 Let’s Practice…

1-3. Name three of the rules that guided the copiers of the Old Testament?

2. Finding the Dead Sea Scrolls rolled back the date of the oldest Old Testament manuscript by
years.

3. In that time period, what percentage of the Old Testament had changed in the copying
process? (And these changes were mostly pen slips or spelling errors).

4. How many ancient manuscripts do we have of the New Testament, back to the 2 century?
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5. What is the percentage of agreement among all these manuscripts? %

6. How many variants (differences) exist among the multitude of manuscripts of the NT?

7. How many of these variants have any doctrinal significance?

8. What is the science called that compares families of manuscripts to determine how a variant can be
corrected?

9. The original autographs were inerrant and inspired by God. What three languages were the original
autographs written in?

10. Why cannot we say that the copies we have in English are inerrant?

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