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How can we know what the original New Testament documents said? We do not have the original autographs of the New Testament authors. This has caused many to claim that we cannot know what they originally wrote and that the New Testament has been lost through many translations and transmissions. However, the science of textual criticism has much to say about how confident we can be in our modern New Testament containing what was originally written. In this episode we go through the manuscript evidence, the textual variants within the manuscripts, and the percentage of accuracy that we have for the New Testament. The evidence for our modern New Testament being accurate with the original is overwhelming and as a Christian, I am sure it will strengthen your confidence in Scripture. Just because the New Testament has been accurately transmitted, does not necessarily mean that what it says is true, that’s a different argument. However, we can be confident that we have what was originally written with 99% accuracy.