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It's virtually or it's not true.

They're 100 percent identical because it's still textual criticism, which changes everything.

and copyist errors but they match up especially the great isaiah scroll it's like oh we're really reading isaiah because look this is a thousand years older than what we had and it essentially reads the same this is a huge deal these hebrew scribes were extremely careful that's why they were in qumran

where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, they separated themselves from the religious structure in Jerusalem just to practice their religion.

They were serious.

They're not going to be toying around with their own scriptures.

This is their lifeblood.

This is a very serious thing.

This isn't like books now.

It's like, ah, just take it.

This is a big deal.

And so to change it is a big deal.

It kind of shows you don't really believe in its veracity.

Otherwise, why would you toy around with it?

Right.

Do those scrolls predate the Bible?

What do you mean by that?

The Dead Sea Scrolls?

Are they written before the Bible?

Yeah.