Some people say the newer bibles come from the original manuscripts. Where are they?

Question

Where are Paul's original epistles? No I can't read Hebrew or Greek. I just want to know where the so called "originals" are.

Answer 1

If you want the answer to this question, there are 2 resources that I commend to you.
The Identity of the New Testament text by Wilbur Pickering is a boot that gives a more advanced answer to the question of what the original manuscript looked like. Parchments are prone to deteriorate, so the ones that the apostles wrote are no longer around.
An understandable history of the bible by Sam Gipp gives a less complicated read. Not all of what he says I agree with though.
The short answer on all of this is that there is a "majority text" that comprises in excess of 5200 manuscripts. The minority text comprises about 3-5 texts. (Hence the word majority!)
Westcott and Hort did not use the "Westcott and Hort method" to come up with their greek new testament. The JW bible for example comes from the W&H new testament and it is thus not credible.

Answer 2

The original (copies of originals) manuscripts are not all in one place. There thousands of manuscripts for the New Testament alone. Most are in museums, some are held by the Catholic Church in their museums. We do have all the manuscripts found to date for any to examine. New bibles coming from the original manuscripts, like the others were not? If a new bible is claiming something different than that which has already been accepted and claims its because of the original manuscripts, then I would questions the reliability of those who published the new bible.

The originals that where written by the hand of the Apostles are not all found, or expected to be found. After reading the answers I understand your question now, there are not "original" manuscripts, just the original ones from where we translate all other copies.

Answer 3

You're asking a lot. How long can paper or parchment last? There have been changes in the way the oldest existing copies are studied. Most scolars now aggree that several of the Gospels used the book of Luke for Reference.

But no, there are no new manuscripts of the Bible as we read it. There are newly discovered manuscripts of that era, about people mentioned in the Bible.

Answer 4

Much of the original texts have been preserved under gas filled glass containers. Some in the archives of various Catholic churches around the world. Mostly partial manuscripts.
Some are in Russia, Some in Grease, Some in Ethiopia (Auxum).
There is a book called the Emphatic Dieglot published by the Watchtower, (I own one) that is an exact word for word group of translations original language on one side and the English version on the other. However, it is no longer available to the public.

We try to keep telling people we have the truth, and they won't listen...........

Answer 5

Simple fact is,there are no originals.The manuscripts that exixt are copies of copies.Some were copied from verbal sources,people who remembered what a follower of the original author had said.I've heard it said with authority that the oldest manuscript that exixts is a fragment-three lines-of the gospel of Matthew,and that it carbon dated to 125 A.D.The Dead Sea Scrolls contained some fragments,and who knows-there could be other fragments waiting to be found in the hills above the Dead Sea.

Answer 6

there is no such ingredient as "the unique Bible." The previous testomony of the Bible is a variety of of writings that have been often concept to have been divinely stimulated transcripts of oral history. the recent testomony is a variety of of writings by making use of people who have been attempting to make sparkling theology interior the early Christian circulation. There are adequate similarities interior the particularly some writings that they have got been lined interior the canon. The writings are in Greek, besides as in Aramaic and Latin.

Answer 7

the originals are probably dust. i think the newer bibles come from older texts, hence they are closer to the originals, but the originals are long gone