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Climbing For Christ Australia 9-May-2010 At 4:55:29 PM another dave

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There are no surviving original copies of biblical texts all are copies. The same is said about pracitcally every other ancient manuscript as the stuff it was written down on decays with time. Therefore everything we know about the ancient world that is from manuscripts was copied word for word, probably by a guy with a very sore neck and a squint.

About the validity of the bible first hand second hand authors etc. The new testament (NT) is what counts.
The book of Mathew is written by the apostle Mathew.
John by the apostle John.
John is accredited with writing 4 books in the NT
The apostle Paul with 6
Apostle Peter with 2.
Etc.

If you want to read about the number of surviving manuscripts check this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_manuscript
(scroll to section about New testament manuscripts)
Compared with Alexander the great (not the best example but easiest to find):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great#Sources
(scroll to the bottom under sources)