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How Can We Know the Bible is True?

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 of human handling.That’s usually where skeptics think they’ve made their point. If the Bible comes to us through copies of copies, wit