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Aren’t other holy books as good as the Bible (e.g., the Koran, Book of Mormon, Hindu Vedas, etc.)?

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Aren’t other holy books as good as the Bible (e.g., the Koran, Book of Mormon, Hindu Vedas, etc.)?

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As noted in question #3, the Bible is unique among the world’s religious books. No other text can claim divine authorship with any degree of legitimacy. For example, in many of the ancient Hindu writings, there are hundreds of discrepancies and contradictions between different copies of the same texts. In contrast, there are over 14,000 New Testament manuscripts extant, and of those 95% of the text are in perfect agreement! This is unheard of in ancient literature. Of the 5% of “discrepancies”, the vast majority of the differences are merely spelling and grammatical differences. The miniscule percentage outside of that has no bearing on any major Christian doctrine. The Book of Mormon was written by Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church. There are virtually no manuscripts extant from which his book was translated (he claimed to have received golden tablets from God which he translated with the help of an angel named Morani). In spite of the lack of evidence to support their “h

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