User talk:SouthWriter/sandbox/An atheist's objections/@comment-1375165-20100810001001

Oh how wonderful, my favorite blog is back to life!

To rebuke someone's point about the Bible having errors due to repeated copying by hand, that is actually a very weak point at best. Not only did Erasmus manage to fix nearly all of the miscopies, by collecting Bibles from around the known world and finding correlations and differences, but even now discoveries of very very old Bibles (from the 4th century) and even Judaic texts (like the Dead Sea Scrolls) show us that our modern version, namely the untranslated Greek script, is extremely close to the originals.

Most importantly however, even if copying errors still persist, the core messages in the Bible would be perfectly intact. Especially as far as the teachings of Jesus are to be concerned.