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Can We Trust the Text?

A Short Guide to the Reliability of Scripture

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Most of us inherit a Bible without ever being told how it arrived. This short guide fills that gap without requiring a seminary degree.

It covers manuscript evidence, the process of canonisation, how translation decisions get made, and the well-known passages scholars flag as later additions — including why that is less alarming than it sounds.

Roughly ninety minutes of reading, with notes for going deeper.

Inside the book

01What a Manuscript Actually Is
02Counting Copies, Weighing Variants
03Who Decided the Canon
04Translation Is Interpretation
05The Passages Scholars Flag
06Confidence Without Overclaiming

Chapter list continues in the full edition

About the author

A note from the writer

I'm a writer and researcher who spent several years chasing down the questions I couldn't answer about my own faith. I'm not a pastor and I don't have a pulpit — which is probably why people tell me things they'd never say in a small group.

I write for the person in the back row: curious, a little tired of slogans, and unwilling to trade honesty for comfort.

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