Have you ever been asked where the New Testament came from and how we know it can be trusted? Have you ever been told the Bible is full of mistakes and just a book written by men? If you would like answers to these questions, please read on, and make plans to come to hear Denis Salagado and Preston Russell, Research Leaders with Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM). 

On Friday, May 16th and Saturday, May 17th, PBC is hosting for the first time, a seven-session conference with the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts, from Plano, Texas. CSNTM is a non-profit organization that is “dedicated to digitally preserving Greek New Testament manuscripts” under the guidance of the executive director, Dr. Daniel B. Wallace, PhD. 

The mission of CSNTM is to provide resourcing, education, and collaboration for the “noble task of preserving the New Testament text and manuscripts and tracing it’s history through the ages.” 

If you would like to have a  better understanding of the origins of the NT and be able to help others have confidence in the veracity of the Word of God, this conference is for you. All staff leaders and laymen would benefit greatly from the seven sessions and Q and A time.

  • Session 1 – The Autographs—introduces the beginning of the process that eventually led to what we call the “New Testament.”
  • Session 2 – The Canon of the New Testament—demonstrates that the church came to recognize 27 books of the New Testament as authoritative Scripture.
  • Session 3 – The Copies—highlights that each manuscript is important for our understanding of the history of the New Testament, and that these manuscripts were produced through tremendous effort and painstaking labor
  • Session 4 – The Copyists—fleshes out the human effort in the transmission of the New Testament throughout the centuries; who scribes were and how they worked.
  • Session 5 – What’s in New Testament Manuscripts?—shows that these artifacts were used by real people and were of great importance to individuals and communities in history.
  • Session 6 – The Art and Science of Textual Criticism—introduces students to the discipline of New Testament Textual Criticism to show how scholars work to provide people with the Greek New Testament text that is as close to the original as possible
  • Session 7 – Translating the New Testament—knowing about the translation of the New Testament helps us appreciate, read, study, and therefore live out the New Testament in our own mother tongue.

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