Has the Bible Been Accurately Transmitted and Preserved Through the Centuries?
An Areopagus Forum With Dr. Daniel B. Wallace

When you read the Bible – or hear it referred to as “the Word of God” –how do you know that what you’re reading is what the authors originally wrote? This is a question that skeptics often raise, but in fact it is a perfectly legitimate issue that all serious Christians should understand.

The field of study that deals directly with this issue is known as biblical textual criticism – a term that is somewhat misleading because the word “criticism” usually connotes something negative (as in “to find fault with”). But as scholars use the term, it refers to biblical textual analysis – the art and science of comparing the variant readings in biblical manuscripts in order to restore, as accurately as possible, the original wording in the original texts.

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The Areopagus Update Newsletter for March-April 2012

In Romans 8:28 the apostle Paul writes, “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” This principle applies not only to our personal lives but to the whole realm of human existence. For example, with the increasing secularization of higher education over the past fifty years, residual Christian influences have been marginalized if not purged altogether from campus life. But at some universities this is opening up opportunities for innovative new ministries such as Christian study centers that offer students (and even some faculty) not only a place of spiritual refuge but also the kind of vibrant intellectual stimulation that is often missing in the typical university environment.

Most colleges and universities are essentially closed shops in which only secular liberal and radical left-wing ideas and values are tolerated. As for traditional orthodox Christianity, it is regarded as so antiquated and politically incorrect as to be unworthy of serious consideration.  So ironically, the one place where Christians can express themselves freely and engage in open dialogue and debate with believers and nonbelievers alike is in the one venue that honors true intellectual diversity and academic freedom: a Christian study center.

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