and the earliest of these copies. The textual evidence for Livy and Homer are considered more than adequate for historians to use in validating the original, but this evidence pales in comparison to what God performed in the case of the New Testament text. The New Testament Has No Equal Using this accepted standard for evaluating the textual reliability of ancient writings, the New Testament stands alone. It has no equal. No other book of the ancient world can even approach the reliability of the New