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How Did We Get the New Testament?
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How Did We Get the New Testament?

I gave this lecture at a conference on the Bible at L’Abri Fellowship in England, where I used to work and live. L’Abri is a work of hospitality, community, and teaching. People come to L’Abri from all over the world to live in community for weeks or months at a time, ask their questions about God, and hopefully find their way into answers.

This lecture tackles a perennial topic: where did the New Testament come from? Can we trust it? How accurate is it? What about all the errors in the New Testament? Who wrote it? Why are there so many modern-day Bibles and why are they so different? I’m trying to trace the flow of scripture from eyewitnesses who actually saw something to how the accounts of what they saw ended up on bookstore shelves 2,000 years later.


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The Bible is a network of interconnected images that tell the story of God as they develop through Scripture. Pattern Bible is a project to trace these images from Genesis to Revelation.
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