[Mulhollanddose]

The point I was trying to make was that translations didn't do anything like this: Aramaic to Greek to Japanese to Bengali to English to Spanish...They were directly copied from the oldest most authoritative texts available, deliberated on thoroughly.

The only real texts that are in question are those of the New Testament. The text of the New Testament, in early Christendom, was the most widely copied text, of all mass copied text, besting even Homer's Iliad...Based on these earliest available texts, and corroboration from historical sites (engravings, art, etc.) we have great accuracy in the New Testament.

"There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament"

F.F. Bruce (professor at the University of Manchester, England)

"...in no other case is the interval of time between the composition of the book and the date of the earliest manuscripts so short as in that of the New Testament."

Sir Frederic Kenyon (director of the British Museum)

He concluded: "The last foundation for any doubt that the scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed."