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Originally Posted by Abel  Everyone keeps talking about this proof. What proof? Give me something other than opinions. |
For a small example:
Misquoting Jesus
Author has a PhD and M.Divinity from Princeton seminary. He's currently the chairman of the department of religious studies at Univ North Carolina in Chappel Hill. This is just one example.
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The popular perception of the Bible as a divinely perfect book receives scant support from Ehrman, who sees in Holy Writ ample evidence of human fallibility and ecclesiastical politics. Though himself schooled in evangelical literalism, Ehrman has come to regard his earlier faith in the inerrant inspiration of the Bible as misguided, given that the original texts have disappeared and that the extant texts available do not agree with one another. Most of the textual discrepancies, Ehrman acknowledges, matter little, but some do profoundly affect religious doctrine. To assess how ignorant or theologically manipulative scribes may have changed the biblical text, modern scholars have developed procedures for comparing diverging texts. And in language accessible to nonspecialists, Ehrman explains these procedures and their results. He further explains why textual criticism has frequently sparked intense controversy, especially among scripture-alone Protestants. In discounting not only the authenticity of existing manuscripts but also the inspiration of the original writers, Ehrman will deeply divide his readers. Although he addresses a popular audience, he undercuts the very religious attitudes that have made the Bible a popular book. Still, this is a useful overview for biblical history collections
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I heard him talk briefly about his book on a show where he described, for example, how the oldest texts we have (not originals) did not contain the "stoning of the adulteress" story and how it appeared several hundred years after the canonization of the texts.
That's just one example. From what I've heard, there's plenty of good scholarly criticism like this. While this is a popular history book, Erhman is part of a peer reviewed community at a major accredited institution and is one amongst many.
You're welcome to look there for specific evidentiary details to support the bible as a human construct.