Lee Strobel

So there's a difference there, and I encourage people to use a translation because that is staying true to what was originally written as best we can determine it. By the way, talking about, I want to give you a little anecdote because we talked at breakfast about numbers and how numbers can be really interesting sometimes. And you know, it's very commonly said that the number of Satan is 666.

So there's a difference there, and I encourage people to use a translation because that is staying true to what was originally written as best we can determine it. By the way, talking about, I want to give you a little anecdote because we talked at breakfast about numbers and how numbers can be really interesting sometimes. And you know, it's very commonly said that the number of Satan is 666.

A friend of mine is named Dr. Daniel B. Wallace. He's a professor at Dallas Seminary. He's probably the world's leading expert on the manuscripts of the New Testament. And his ministry is to travel the world and to go to museums and seminaries and places that have ancient manuscripts and to take high quality photographs of them for scholars so we can preserve them forever.

A friend of mine is named Dr. Daniel B. Wallace. He's a professor at Dallas Seminary. He's probably the world's leading expert on the manuscripts of the New Testament. And his ministry is to travel the world and to go to museums and seminaries and places that have ancient manuscripts and to take high quality photographs of them for scholars so we can preserve them forever.

A friend of mine is named Dr. Daniel B. Wallace. He's a professor at Dallas Seminary. He's probably the world's leading expert on the manuscripts of the New Testament. And his ministry is to travel the world and to go to museums and seminaries and places that have ancient manuscripts and to take high quality photographs of them for scholars so we can preserve them forever.

And I was talking to him once and I said, he said, yeah, I discovered something interesting. I said, what? He said, I took the oldest manuscript we've got of the Book of Revelation and I examined it under a microscope And the number of Satan is not 666, it's 616. I said, really? And it always stuck in my mind. I called him back about a year later.

And I was talking to him once and I said, he said, yeah, I discovered something interesting. I said, what? He said, I took the oldest manuscript we've got of the Book of Revelation and I examined it under a microscope And the number of Satan is not 666, it's 616. I said, really? And it always stuck in my mind. I called him back about a year later.

And I was talking to him once and I said, he said, yeah, I discovered something interesting. I said, what? He said, I took the oldest manuscript we've got of the Book of Revelation and I examined it under a microscope And the number of Satan is not 666, it's 616. I said, really? And it always stuck in my mind. I called him back about a year later.

I said, did I understand you right when you said you examined under a microscope and the real number is 616? He said, yeah. So, I mean, that's why it's important that we go back to the sources as best we can. You know, the original documents are all lost. They're all reduced to dust because they were made of papyrus and so forth, scrolls.

I said, did I understand you right when you said you examined under a microscope and the real number is 616? He said, yeah. So, I mean, that's why it's important that we go back to the sources as best we can. You know, the original documents are all lost. They're all reduced to dust because they were made of papyrus and so forth, scrolls.

I said, did I understand you right when you said you examined under a microscope and the real number is 616? He said, yeah. So, I mean, that's why it's important that we go back to the sources as best we can. You know, the original documents are all lost. They're all reduced to dust because they were made of papyrus and so forth, scrolls.

But we have reliable documents because handwritten copies were made. We have thousands of copies that we can compare and contrast, and we can come to a conclusion about what the original said. And that's the translations we have.

But we have reliable documents because handwritten copies were made. We have thousands of copies that we can compare and contrast, and we can come to a conclusion about what the original said. And that's the translations we have.

But we have reliable documents because handwritten copies were made. We have thousands of copies that we can compare and contrast, and we can come to a conclusion about what the original said. And that's the translations we have.

Different versions of what? The Bible. That you see in a store, for instance? Yeah, they're all translations, but a translation committee may choose a certain word, say the Greek says this, we're gonna translate it this way. And another group might get together of scholars and say, yeah, that's good, but we think it's a little sharper, a little better to translate it this way.

Different versions of what? The Bible. That you see in a store, for instance? Yeah, they're all translations, but a translation committee may choose a certain word, say the Greek says this, we're gonna translate it this way. And another group might get together of scholars and say, yeah, that's good, but we think it's a little sharper, a little better to translate it this way.

Different versions of what? The Bible. That you see in a store, for instance? Yeah, they're all translations, but a translation committee may choose a certain word, say the Greek says this, we're gonna translate it this way. And another group might get together of scholars and say, yeah, that's good, but we think it's a little sharper, a little better to translate it this way.

And so they're very careful about that. There's a Bible called the NET Bible. I think it's the New English Translation. Daniel B. Wallace, who I mentioned, is the editor of that. That has thousands, literally thousands of footnotes that explain why they translate the Greek and the Hebrew in the way they did. So it says, you know, we had a choice here.

And so they're very careful about that. There's a Bible called the NET Bible. I think it's the New English Translation. Daniel B. Wallace, who I mentioned, is the editor of that. That has thousands, literally thousands of footnotes that explain why they translate the Greek and the Hebrew in the way they did. So it says, you know, we had a choice here.

And so they're very careful about that. There's a Bible called the NET Bible. I think it's the New English Translation. Daniel B. Wallace, who I mentioned, is the editor of that. That has thousands, literally thousands of footnotes that explain why they translate the Greek and the Hebrew in the way they did. So it says, you know, we had a choice here.