I watched a video of Ehrman on YouTube. He took some digs at how Christians view the Bible, suggesting they aren’t too bright. The problem with believing the Bible according to him is that we don’t know what the original manuscripts said.
He described how our New Testament manuscripts are many copies removed from the originals, and we don’t know what alterations were made between the originals and the manuscripts we have. He implied that exactly one copy got made at each step of the process, which is false.
Multiple copies would have been made of each of the original Gospels. Then the first copies were recopied multiple times etc. The copies that survived came from different branches of the copying process. Because of that, alterations of the original text along the way are easy to spot. They show up in one manuscript but not any of the others.
I would recommend that you read other scholarly rebuttals to Bart Ehrman, starting here:
Regarding multiple copies of manuscripts, The New Testament Scholar NT Wright has this response:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NQYOjRYQG8
If one applied Ehrmans criteria to all historical documents, and many,many, contemporaneous documents, there would very little communication at all. Is Ehrman a fabrication? Did he use AI to come to his beliefs?
A year or so ago there was an article about new results from the Dead Sea scrolls, with the title being something like “Early Dead Sea Manuscripts show errors in the N.T.”
I don’t recall exactly what they were, but they were very minor.
“And Jesus gathered the disciples....” vs.
“And Jesus gathered his disciples...”. (I just made that sentence up - but it COULD be in the Bible!)
Thinking about it now, I wonder if it may be a translation error on our part?
Sounds like some folks from either SLC or Warwick NY has influenced this one.