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You can go to the library in London and see Sinaiticus, for example, or Vaticanus there in Rome.

Yeah.

There are differences between manuscripts because every handwritten document that has ever existed in human history, when there's more than one copy, there are differences between the copies.

That's undeniable.

That's true for the Quran as well.

That's just the nature of humans' facility.

The question is, how careful are they?

But generally speaking, when people make that claim, they're not making a textual criticism claim, because that's a known thing about variation in all ancient documents, from Homer to Plato to Aristotle, because they're handwritten.

Got it.

And the more copies you have, the more variations you have.

But the more copies you have, the better you can check.

Right.

So that's the advantage the Bible has over the next greatest competitor, which is Homer's work.

There's many more in the Scripture than there are Homer.

Homer comes in second place for how many copies of ancient documents.

The Quran is actually not an ancient document.

A lot of people don't understand that.

It's in the Middle Ages.

In the 600s is when it came about, and our earliest copies are not from the 600s.

That is in the Middle Ages.