Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

by Bart D. Ehrman

Not only do we not have the originals, we don’t have the first copies of the originals.

there are more differences among our manuscripts than there are words in the New Testament.

What if we have to figure out how to live and what to believe on our own, without setting up the Bible as a false idol—or an oracle that gives us a direct line of communication with the Almighty?