Primary source
The Hanna Papyrus 1 (Mater Verbi)
Vatican Library page for P75, an early third-century papyrus of Luke and John.
- Publisher
- Vatican Apostolic Library
- Tradition
- New Testament manuscript
- Accessed
- 2026-10-06
Citation
Vatican Apostolic Library, “The Hanna Papyrus 1 (Mater Verbi),” accessed October 6, 2026.
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.
- Constantine changed the BibleThe four Gospels were received long before Constantine, and the records of Nicaea show no vote on the Bible's contents and no removal of books.
- 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 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.