Bibles don’t come from bookstores. While that’s where we may procure a Bible, I’m not so sure where the text within came from. I have questions: Who wrote it? When? In what language? Does the text we have today come from an autograph (author’s original penned text) or a copy? Who copied it, and how do I know they copied it accurately? Who compiled the individual books and letters into what we know today as the canonical Bible? How did they decide which books to include and which to exclude? Are there conflicting accounts of the same event between texts?
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