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Giving Bible readers what God said not what translators think God meant
Learn about the accuracy of the Bible through the centuries with textual criticism, historical evidence, and manuscript comparisons. Discover how the Bible has been accurately copied down through the ages.
Scripture, manuscripts, history, prophecy, and Jesus Christ provide strong assurance that the Bible is Jehovah’s trustworthy Word.
Biblical genealogies are reliable historical records that support chronology, covenant promises, Messianic descent, and resurrection hope.
How Jehovah’s Word was written, copied, translated, and restored to clear understanding through faithful study of Scripture.
How Bible manuscripts were made, copied, corrected, and preserved through papyrus, parchment, codices, scribes, and textual evidence.
Be convinced that God’s Word is truth through Jesus’ testimony, inspiration, manuscript evidence, and accurate handling of Scripture.
Biblical manuscripts preserve the Old and New Testament text through early witnesses, disciplined copying, and sound textual criticism.
During the first 17 centuries of our Common Era, the reliability of the Gospels was never seriously questioned. In the 19th century and beyond, some academics have questioned the traditional view of the Gospels as being inspired by God and have instead suggested that they were written by human authors who were attempting to convey their own perspectives and interpretations of the life and teachings of Jesus.
Jesus Christ treated Scripture as God’s unbreakable, truthful, authoritative Word in every doctrine, detail, prophecy, and historical claim.
In the case of the New Testament papyri manuscripts, our early evidence for the Greek New Testament, size is irrelevant. They range from centimeters encompassing a couple of verses to a codex with many books of the New Testament. But all of them add something significant.
