This claim gets thrown out there all the time – that the consensus of NT scholars think that what we have is basically indistinguishable from the original texts. It’s easy to say this when a majority of NT scholars are themselves bible believing Christians.
Can anyone point me to the writings of respected scholars, besides Dr. Ehrman, who take the “minority” view of whether the manuscripts we have are just like the originals?

Vinterstum said
This claim gets thrown out there all the time – that the consensus of NT scholars think that what we have is basically indistinguishable from the original texts. It’s easy to say this when a majority of NT scholars are themselves bible believing Christians.Can anyone point me to the writings of respected scholars, besides Dr. Ehrman, who take the “minority” view of whether the manuscripts we have are just like the originals?
“Just like the originals.”
I don’t think any serious scholar is claiming that we have a manuscript today which is identical to the “autograph” of any Gospel. Rather, what you will often hear, and Dr. Ehrman only minimally disputes this, is that we can reconstruct the “autograph” of each of the four canonical Gospels from the materials available to us today, and that our current reconstructions of each of those, while not identical to the “autographs,” do not substantial diverge in theological teachings from the “autographs.”
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