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 So as the Bible is a book written by both the Holy Spirit and human authors, I worry that some people might see the Bible as not so clean. The Bible isn't like the tablets of the testimony that Moses received on Mount Sinai, written with the finger of God. (Exodus 31:18) There's a lot of human involvement with the Bible. But I want you to know that all of that didn't bother Jesus one bit when He read the Bible and extensively quoted it with authority.
 
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+I think this is the most anticipated section. I am going to give you a little introduction to what's out there, so you can do your own digging on whatever specifically interests you. I don't really like a lot of what scholars have to say about the biblical manuscripts because, frankly, there's a lot of cope and unsubstantiated claims. For example, a whole lot of people, a whole lot of scholars in their publications, say that even without manuscripts, the early Church fathers quoted the Bible so extensively, that we could recreate the Bible from their quotations alone. And that's just not true. A lot of the quotations are uncited and heavily paraphrased. Several books are sparse. It's just a legend, but people go around saying it as a fact. So if you really want to know, I recommend you got directly to manuscripts and the Church fathers who used them. I tried to do my due diligence here, but it's a lot.
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+So if you want everything to line up perfectly and point to one clear perfect Scripture, I don't think you're really going to find it through textual criticism or whatever scholarly venue. It's really messy. If we go to the word of God, though, it tells us why.
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+Let's read 2 Peter. Yeah, all of it in one go.