Bible copying errors
In the 17th Century, the English theologian John Mill underwent a detailed study of approximately 100 surviving New Testament manuscripts in an effort to determine the accuracy of the copying process. He found that there were 30,000 discrepancies among the texts, indicating that scribes had frequently made mistakes in copying scriptures. Today, there are many times that number of known discrepancies, one in particular that led to the doctrine of the virgin birth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mill_(theologian)
If Jesus had come today, the books written by the original authors could have been thoroughly validated for accuracy forever into the future, but because of the time in question, we cannot be confident that what is written in the Bible is a consistent facsimile of what was originally intended. This casts a shadow on the truth claims of Christianity.
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