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The Quran is not an ancient document.

The Old and New Testaments of the Bible are classified under proper historiography as ancient documents.

But going back to that,

They usually mean the Bible's wholesale being corrupted with large swaths of important vital information changed or swapped out.

That's a lie.

That could be demonstrated.

We could talk about that and have that discussion.

Yeah, I've heard people that are atheists say that.

Yeah, but someone like...

I don't know what Alex says, but I bet Alex would have a much more nuanced perspective because I think from what I can tell, he's looked at it enough to know it's not quite like that.

Now, that doesn't mean there's no difficulties in understanding why this is this way versus that way.

For example, the pericopeia daltre, the longer ending of Mark 16, things like that, especially when you get into the Old Testament because it's so much older.

Yeah.

But that's where the beauty of the Dead Sea Scrolls comes in.

It was a massive check on what we currently had.

And the beauty is that it basically helped check out everything properly.

If the Dead Sea Scrolls were radically different than the Hebrew scrolls that we had at the time, that would have been a huge deal.

And you would have always heard about it.

But there was a lot of now.

It's not true.