In thirteenth-century England, people had such a hunger for the Bible that they smuggled copies of the New Testament into the country in sacks of food from Germany. People found possessing a copy of the Bible were marked as outlaws. It was in a world like this that a man named William Tyndale was born. Driven by the idea that God meant all people to understand his Word plainly, he risked his life to work tirelessly to translate the Bible into English.

When talking with skeptics about the validity, truth, and trustworthiness of the Bible, the following question is likely to arise: Can we really trust what we read in the Bible to be identical to its original manuscripts? In this article, we answer this question and affirm the trustworthiness of the Bible.