Primary source
Codex Sinaiticus
Project site for the fourth-century Greek Bible containing the oldest complete copy of the New Testament.
- Publisher
- Codex Sinaiticus Project
- Tradition
- New Testament manuscript
- Accessed
- 2026-06-18
Where this source is used
- A great apostasy made restoration necessaryThe New Testament warns of apostasy but promises the gospel will endure, and the apostles' message was preached without a break from the first century on.
- Reincarnation was removed from the BibleNo manuscript or council record shows reincarnation removed from the Bible. Christians rejected it openly before Constantine, and old manuscripts read like ours.
- The Bible is corruptedThe manuscripts differ in small ways, but the Gospel Christians held in Muhammad's day, which the Qur'an tells them to judge by, survives and can be read today.
- The Bible lost plain and precious truthsThe manuscripts show small, documented copying changes, not an early removal of doctrine, and the Bible already teaches what the Book of Mormon calls plain and precious.
- The reliability of the BibleVariants in the manuscripts are real and openly catalogued. They show a text copied many times in many places, which is why its earliest wording can be recovered.
- The reliability of the New TestamentPaul's letters preserve a summary of belief from within a few years of Jesus' death, the Gospels were written within living memory, and the text can be recovered with confidence.