That is untrue, there were I believe over 6000 manuscripts of the NT found, complete, partial, and fragments, and most of these were those copies that each Church has made when an epistle was finisned.
That is untrue, there were I believe over 6000 manuscripts of the NT found, complete, partial, and fragments, and most of these were those copies that each Church has made when an epistle was finisned.
I don't think you are responding to me, but it patently false that the manuscript copies are "those copies that each church made when an epistle was finished". We have virtually no copies that can even be traced to a century after the autograph copy. At best we have (other than scraps) perhaps a tenth generation copy of the original (not that I am implying any error in transmision, just denying that we somehow have originals or first generation copies).
In fact, I believe that the closest things we have to an actual complete copy of the NT are the Codex Vaticanus and the Codex Sinaiticus(sp?) which date to the fourth century.