Apologist Wes Huff defended the historical reliability of the Bible at the Sing! Conference, explaining how centuries of manuscript evidence give Christians confidence that the Scriptures they read today accurately reflect the ancient texts. “The remarkable thing is not merely that the Bible survived; it is that we can examine the evidence for how it survived,” Huff told thousands gathered at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday night.
“You can trust the text. You can trace its story, but the most important thing is that you actually read it.” Huff, a Canadian theologian and apologist who has gained widespread attention through appearances on podcasts and debates, particularly following a 2025 appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast, delivered his message as part of the annual Sing! Conference led by Keith and Kristyn Getty.
This year's conference, themed “Symphony of Scripture,” marks 500 years since William Tyndale's English New Testament and focuses on the enduring influence of Scripture on worship and culture. Huff structured his message around the acronym “TRUST”: text, reproduction, usage, survival and translation. His goal, he said, was to demonstrate how ancient biblical texts traveled “from the hands of their authors into ours.” “How do we go from ancient papyri to modern-day print?” he asked.
“What you hold in a modern English translation is taken directly from the original languages, the Greek and the Hebrew, and is rendered in a way that can be understood.
And that's the legacy of someone like Tyndale.” Pointing to ancient manuscripts such as Papyrus 66, which contains a nearly complete copy of the Gospel of John dating to around the late second or early third century, Huff said Christians today can compare their Bibles with texts read by believers living nearly 2,000 years ago.