The old testament has essentially no errors

The old testament has no errors. An error is simply a change affecting doctrine. An error can also be a contradiction within the text that cannot be reconciled.

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It is commonly claimed that the Old Testament is full of errors and contradictions and doctrinal changes.

Looking at the existing manuscripts available, there are many methods for why it's essentially flawless:

1. The scribes were professionals and used accurate methods of preservation to ensure God's Word is transmitted properly:

"[The Masoretes wrote] with the greatest imaginable reverence, and devised a complicated system of safeguards against scribal slips. They counted, for example, the number of times each letter of the alphabet occurs in each book; they pointed out the middle letter of the Pentateuch and the middle letter of the whole Hebrew Bible, and made even more detailed calculations than these." (1)

2. A body of manuscripts known as the DSS were found in Qumran dating thousands of centuries before the Masoretic texts. Only 3 spelling mistakes were found (2)

3. The Old Testament has such small mistakes that the entire message isn't affected at all as we are about to see:

There are intentional changes and unintentional changes.

Bad eyesight was common as the manuscripts were copied in places poor lit.

Words may be replaced for a similar sounding word. Scribes would read words outloud so that others could hear. While slightly different words in spelling can be used, they are just that (3).

Sometimes scribes made a mistake of conflation and combined multiple readings into 1 (4).

This shows that the Old Testament has been accurately preserved

Sources:

1. F.F. Bruce, The Books and the Parchments (London: Pickering & Inglis Ltc., 1963), p. 117.

2. Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. The Old Testament Documents: Are They Reliable and Relevant? (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2001), p. 45-46.

3. Metzger, The Text, 191.

4. Metzger, The Text, 200.

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