Do you Lack Faith because You don’t Understand Why There’s So Many Versions Of The Bible?

Well here's the simple answer on why..

RainingFaithCo
6 min readNov 9, 2021

Don't believe in the bible because there's so many versions?
There's a simple answer of why. Do you know Greek? Maybe Aramaic? Old English? How about Hebrew? No? Well that's the the beginning of your answer.

One of the main reasons we see different versions of the Bible is because of the number of manuscripts available, not only that, but the English language has changed dramatically. Not to mention the people who speak one of the other 7,360 known languages? There are over 5,800 Greek New Testament manuscripts known to date, along with over 10,000 Hebrew Old Testament manuscripts and over 19,000 copies in Syriac, Coptic, Latin, and Aramaic languages.

Manuscript Families:

There's 2 manuscript families in these manuscripts: Alexandrian text-type (also called Neutral or Egyptian) and Byzantine text-type (also called the Majority Text).

  • The Byzantine text type looks at all the manuscripts and determines the final reading by what the majority of the manuscripts say.
  • Rather than looking for a collective majority, the Alexandrian text type looks mainly at the date of the manuscript and…

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