The Gospels are the best evidenced and attested to documents ever written in Greek in the ancient world. Attempts to claim that the originals have 'changed over the intervening years' are as crass as they are intellectually dishonest."Papyrus P52 in the John Rylands Library in Manchester is dated to around AD 125, only about 30–60 years after it was written. The front contains lines from John 18:31–33, in Greek, and the back contains lines from vv. 37–38. There are over 5,000 manuscripts of the New Testament in Greek, and over 19,000 copies in the Syriac, Latin, Coptic, and Aramaic languages. Compare that with other famous classical authors like Plato, Herodotus, Caesar and Tacitus, represented by only 20 manuscripts at the most, the earliest of which dates to 1,000 years after the original. Yet no classical scholar would claim that these authors ‘have been retranscribed and rewritten many times’ with the implication that we don’t have essentially the loriginals." Russell Grigg:-[http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/5029/]
LINK: http://www.carm.org/evidence/textualevidence.htm
