“Heavily corrupted” confuses abundant variants with unrecoverability; the New Testament’s early, diverse witnesses expose errors and enable restoration.
The New Testament Is the Most Heavily Corrupted Book in Antiquity
The Variants Are So Numerous That We Don’t Really Know What the Original Said: Bart D. Ehrman
Many variants reflect manuscript abundance, not ignorance; when counted by variation units, only a tiny fraction of the text is difficult.
Scribes Changed the Text to Make It Say What They Wanted It to Say: Bart D. Ehrman
Intentional scribal changes exist in isolated cases, but the manuscript tradition is broad and early enough to expose them and restore the text with high certainty.
