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To: O'Hara who wrote (21820)	11/13/1998 12:09:00 PM
From: John S.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Hello Shalom and everyone, Following info is from a book entitled "Surprised by Faith" by Dr. Don Bierle who set out as a scientist to either prove or disprove the authenticity of the New Testament manuscripts... A comparison was drawn of literary manuscripts of ancient works utilizing what is accepted as a common criteria for examination known as the principals of historiography. The Number of New Testament Manuscripts Compared to Other Ancient Works. # of manuscripts New Testament (Greek) 5,309 New Testament (all others) 24,633 Iliad 643 Sophocles 193 Aristotle 49 Livy 20 Ceasar's War Commentaries 10 Tacitus 10 Herodotus 8 Plato 7 Time Interval Between Date of Writing and the Earliest Known Manuscript in Years New Testament 100 Virgil 300 Homer 500 Caesar 950 Tacitus 1000 Plato 1250 Herodotus 1350 Aristotle 1450 Comparison of the Rate of Distortion of Manuscripts Due to Copying Errors by Dr. Bruce Metzger utilizing 3 ancient manuscripts with large numbers of accepted copies. Manuscript Percent of Distortion New Testament 0.2% Iliad 4.9% Mahabharata 10.3% The above is only a small portion of this mans research that began as skepticism as a scientist and led him to accepting Jesus Christ as Saviour. I thought it worthwhile printing here. In Christ, John