Three scientists—Papaia, Banani, and Ravioli—and their assistant, Igor, are supposed to attend the famous dark matter conference. However, they board the wrong flight and end up on the other side of the world. After landing at the wrong airport, they book a hotel for the night, but it’s not quite what they expected… meaning it’s awful.
Inside Papaia’s room.
After fleeing their own rooms, Banani and Ravioli decide to go to Papaia’s, where they start discussing the study Ravioli downloaded on the New Testament.
Banani: Yeah, but what if they all agreed at one of those councils to change the text or add something?
Ravioli: And how? If, even in the second century, the Eastern churches and the Church of Rome couldn’t even agree on the date of Easter?
Banani: Really?
Ravioli: Absolutely. The controversy over the date of Easter, known as the Quartodeciman Controversy, is a clear example of how difficult it was for early churches to reach an agreement on theological and liturgical matters. As early as the second century, the Church of Rome and the churches of Asia Minor disagreed on the exact day to celebrate Easter—some followed the Jewish calendar, while others preferred the following Sunday.
Banani: So if they couldn’t even agree on that, let alone changing the Gospels…
Ravioli: Exactly. Any attempt to modify the text in a coordinated way would have been impossible, considering the geographical spread of Christian communities and the existence of circulating copies. Any significant alteration would have been easily detected by comparing manuscripts distributed across various churches, many of which were independent from each other and only sporadically in contact.
Banani: We would have found significantly different manuscripts and two separate traditions.
Ravioli: Exactly! But what we actually see is that, despite small transcription variations, the content of the manuscripts remains essentially the same everywhere. If there had been a massive rewriting, we should find two very different versions of the New Testament, but that’s not the case.
Banani: So the copies we have allow us to reconstruct the original text with certainty?
Ravioli: Yes! Thanks to the large number of ancient manuscripts and their geographical spread, scholars can identify and correct transcription errors, reconstructing the original text with great accuracy.
Ravioli: What do you think, Banani? Will we have to sleep in this hotel again tomorrow?
Banani: This isn’t a hotel… it’s a dump!
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Later, Igor commented: “Banani, at that moment, had fully grasped the essence of the Sunflowerr Hotel.
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…If I had been there, I would have had nothing more to add.”
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