5. Fifth is the reliability of the Bible as a historical document. Former atheist, Josh McDowell, has now documented over 24,600 partial or complete manuscripts of the New Testament in either Greek or Latin. The second-best documented manuscript of antiquity is The Iliad And The Odyssey by Homer. It has around 600 manuscripts. Most ancient documents have fewer than 10 original copies still in existence, yet they are still considered “A - 1” historical documents by historians. Even if all of the New Testament manuscripts were destroyed, we could still reconstruct all of the New Testament , with the exception of about eleven verses, just from the writings of the early church fathers before the year 325 A.D. (which is 300 years before Muhammad). Even non-Christian historians have to admit that by all scientific, archaeological, and historical standards applied to any ancient manuscript, the New Testament
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