How did Paul's letters survive when there were no copy machines or instant communication?
Paul's letters survived because someone was providentially aware they were important and protected them. Though only one copy existed and there were no copy machines or instant communication, they were kept intact for over three hundred years until the Church Fathers compiled them into Scripture. This preservation was miraculous.
Les explains that Paul's various letters went out to different congregations in the ancient world, where there were no copy machines and no instant communication, yet they did not get lost. Someone was providentially aware that these letters were important and needed protection. They were kept intact for three hundred and some years before the Church Fathers put them together and put them into what we call the Scripture. Les says that in itself is miraculous. These were just simple letters sent to a congregation. They did not have copy machines to run off ten copies and send them here and there and everywhere. They only had the one copy, and it is doubtful they took the trouble to laboriously handwrite each one for a church. This letter especially was sent to be circled amongst all the churches in the area around Ephesus, and yet it never got lost. Les calls it amazing and says these are little tidbits that too often we forget, which make this book the supernatural book that it is.