Scribal errors and textual variants do not overthrow Scripture; they show the need for careful manuscript comparison and sound exegesis.
How Can We Explain Bible Difficulties and the Hundreds of Thousands of Scribal Errors in Our Manuscripts?
What Are the Recommended Procedures in Dealing With Bible Difficulties?
Bible difficulties require reverent, contextual, grammatical, and historical study that trusts Scripture while examining the facts carefully.
What Are Bible Difficulties and How Can We Approach Them?
Bible difficulties are not errors but questions requiring context, careful interpretation, manuscript awareness, and trust in Scripture.
The Sources of New Testament Textual Criticism
If we are to be able to evaluate the readings of the manuscripts that we have, we must be familiar with the manuscripts themselves. Moreover, we must understand how they are connected by their likenesses and differences. Westcott and Hort wrote in relation to internal manuscript evidence, “The first step toward obtaining a sure foundation…
What Is the “Gospel of Judas” and Did It ‘Change the History of Early Christianity’?
“THIS is big. A lot of people are going to be upset.” “This changes the history of early Christianity.” (Andrew Cockburn, “The Judas Gospel,” National Geographic, May 2006, p. 91) These overly dramatic in the extreme statements came from scholars who, with open arms, welcomed, the publication of the “Gospel of Judas.” Did these predictions come true?
Was There Really an Epistle to the Laodiceans as Stated In Colossians 4:16, and, If so, Why Is It Not In Our Bibles?
Was there really an epistle to the Laodiceans, and, if so, why is it not in our Bibles? Some scholars maintain that the letter to the Ephesians was not specifically to those at Ephesus but rather it was a general letter to the Ephesians and the Laodiceans, mentioned at Colossians 4:16. In addition, they say, is that the words “which are at Ephesus” found in most translations of Ephesians 1:1 are an addition to the text. They argue the letter that we know as Ephesians was a general epistle sent to the churches in Asia. Are they correct?
Who Were Christianity’s First to Third Centuries Non-Christian Witnesses for the Historicity of Jesus Christ?
As Christian apologetic evangelists, who must reason, explain, prove, persuade, and defend, Christians show that Jesus Christ did live by using sources other than the Bible and the writing of the early Church Fathers. For those who question the Christian authority of the New Testament documents, examine carefully what the secular historians and other writers have written that, in fact, corroborates the testimony of the Bible.
Who Wrote the Gospels Found in the New Testament of Our Bibles, and How Do We Know?
The Double Standard from Skeptics When we are looking at secular history, historians come across balanced, fair, reasonable but when it comes to the gospels, there is a tremendous double standard. The Gospels, for example, are presumed to be guilty of being frauds, authors unknowable until they are proven innocent, and the bar is raised when it comes to the level of evidence needed. The normal way of investigating historical events, peoples, and places ostensibly are thrown out the window.
What Is the Synoptic Problem of Matthew, Mark, and Luke and What is the Hypothetical So-Called Q Document?
The reliability of the Gospels has long been questioned because of pseudo-scholarship. Were the Gospel writers plagiarists? Did the synoptic Gospel (Matthew, Mark & Luke) writers merely copy from one another? Is there a document called Q? Was the Gospel of Mark written first? Are the Gospels authentic and reliable?
PAPIAS (c. 60-135 A.D.) and the Gospels of Matthew and Mark
Discover Papias's insights on the origins of Matthew and Mark. His early testimony shapes our understanding of the Gospels.
