Setting Straight the Claims of Mistakes, Errors, and Contradictions in the Bible

Careful context, sound interpretation, and manuscript evidence answer claims that the Bible contains mistakes or contradictions.

Difficulties Found in the New Testament

New Testament difficulties yield to careful context, accurate history, textual study, and disciplined historical-grammatical interpretation.

Careful context, grammar, history, and textual study resolve alleged Old Testament contradictions without weakening biblical inerrancy.

The Bible has textual variants, but its original wording and message have not been lost or destroyed.

The Critical Text restores the New Testament by weighing early manuscripts, exposing scribal changes, and removing later additions.

Variants do not prove Bible corruption; they provide evidence by which the original wording is restored.

Textual variants exist, but the Bible’s original message has been preserved and can be trusted.

Christians answer attacks on inerrancy by defending God’s truthfulness, Scripture’s context, and Jesus’ own view of the written Word.

P72, Vaticanus, and Byzantine minuscules show the General Epistles were transmitted with stability and recoverable precision.

Digital manuscript study strengthens confidence in the Hebrew Old Testament by clarifying evidence, variants, and Masoretic preservation.