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Questions with Answers
- How can I trust the manuscripts if there are more variations in them than there are words in the New Testament?
- What is the date of the Chester Beatty papyri?
- What is the significance of the Chester Beatty papyri?
- What is the date of the Gospel of John papyri?
- What is the significance of the Gospel of John papyri?
- What is a “harmony of the gospels?”
- What did Tatian do?
- When did he do it?
- Who was Tatian’s teacher?
- When did Justin Martyr write?
- What did Justin Martyr write?
- What does he quote in that writing?
- What is the John Rylands Papyrus?
- What is its date?
- Why is the John Rylands Papyrus so significant?
- What is the significance of the climate of the Holy Land regarding manuscripts?
- Who was Polycarp?
- Who discipled Polycarp?
- When did Polycarp write his letter to the Philippians?
- What is the significance of Polycarp’s letter to the Philippians?
- Who was Ignatius?
- Who discipled Ignatius?
- When did Ignatius write? (EDV 168)
- What is the significance of Ignatius’ letters?
- Who was Clement of Rome?
- Is he mentioned in the New Testament? Where?
- When did Clement of Rome write to the church in Corinth?
- What’s the significance of Clement’s letter?
- What’s the significance of the date 70 AD?
- How do we know that much of the New Testament was written before 70 AD?
- How do we know that Acts was written in the mid-60s?
- When did the war between Rome and Judea begin?
- What is the significance of Paul’s quotes of Scriptures in 1 Timothy 5:17-18?
- What two books of the Bible did Paul quote from in 1 Tim 5:17-18?
- What does 1 Timothy 5:17-18 tell us about the Gospel of Luke?
- When did Paul write 1 Timothy?
- When did Paul write Galatians?
- When did Paul meet James and Peter?
- What were the “oral creeds?” When and why were they used? (EDV 165)
- What is the gist of the oral creed quoted in 1 Corinthians 15? What does it tell us?
- When would Paul probably have heard that particular oral creed?
- How do we know that some copyists didn’t change the things that are in our New Testaments?
- How do we know that Jesus wasn’t a simple Jewish Rabbi that later generations embellished and exaggerated into a fictional miracle-working Son of God?