Examine Christianity through evidence, history, reason, and honest questions.
Explore the case for Christianity with interactive modules on God, Jesus, the resurrection, the Bible, morality, science, and the toughest objections.
Evidence-first
Every claim is traceable to a source: primary texts, scholarly works, and careful apologetics.
Intellectually honest
Strong, charitable steelmen of objections. We distinguish widely-accepted facts from debated views.
Structured lessons
Each lesson walks through claim, evidence, strongest objection, response, and further reading.
Featured lessons
Start with the questions scholars take most seriously.
The Bible has been rewritten so often we cannot know what it originally said.
The very evidence that generates the worry is also what makes the text recoverable. (1) Manuscript density: we have ~5,800 Greek NT manuscripts, plus ~10,000 Latin, plus ~9,300 in other ancient languages - far more than any other ancient work. Homer's Iliad, the next best-attested, has roughly 1,900. (2) Early attestation: P52 (John 18) is dated ~AD 125-175, within a generation of composition; P46 contains most of Paul by ~AD 175-225. Nothing in Greco-Roman literature is this close to its autographs. (3) Nature of variants: of ~400,000 variants across all manuscripts, textual critics (Wallace, Metzger, the Nestle-Aland committee) classify roughly 99 percent as trivial - spelling, word order, definite articles. Fewer than 1 percent are both meaningful and viable, and Ehrman himself concedes "essential Christian beliefs are not affected by textual variants." (4) Canon and translation: the canon was not invented by Constantine; the four Gospels, Acts, and Paul's major letters were functioning as Scripture by the early 2nd century (see Muratorian fragment, Irenaeus). Modern translations work directly from Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, not from a chain of translations. The Dead Sea Scrolls (copied a thousand years earlier than the Masoretic manuscripts previously available for the OT) confirmed that the text had been transmitted with remarkable fidelity.