In former decades, the main question asked of the Bible was “Is it true?” Now it has become, “Did God really say that?”
Questions concerning the transmission of the text of Scripture used to be something only highly trained theologians needed to know. Yet now, because the attacks on the Bible are so mainstream, every Christian needs to know something about the issues involved. We need to know what we believe and why we believe it.
Dr. Dan Wallace, who many view as the leading textual scholar in our time helps us understand something of what we need to know: