Jones not only checks that skepticism: along the way he equips readers to make their own informed choices about authorship, scribal transmission, and church selection (or rejection) of key New Testament passages and documents-and many writings from outside the New Testament as well. It is not the New Testament writers or copyists who depart from history, Jones shows, but a few scholars who invest too much faith in their skepticism.
The evidence turns out to be more believable than Ehrman's strained interpretations of it. He applies to Ehrman the same probing logic that Ehrman claims to apply to the New Testament evidence. "Timothy Paul Jones turns the tables on Bart Ehrman's overstated Misquoting Jesus. With tradition, experience, reason and Scripture as our final measure we can put all ideas on the table with confidence that in the end we will embrace what is true and discard what is false."-Everett Piper, Ph.D., President, Oklahoma Wesleyan University Jones reminds us that Christians should never be afraid of open debate.
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