The Old Testament: Fact or Fiction? This paper will summarize only a few of the evidences and arguments for the validity of the Old Testament, many more can be found. I am neither a theologian nor a scholar, but I do have an accurate knowledge of the scripture of both the Old and New Testaments. I do know that the Old Testament is prophecy and the New Testament is the fulfillment of that prophesy. Without …showed first 75 words of 803 total…

…showed last 75 words of 803 total…scrolls. The book of Isaiah has been full vindicated. The book of Isaiah found with the Dead Sea Scrolls dates to about 1,000 years earlier (about 150 BC) than the manuscripts we have been using, which dates to about AD 980. Yet the differences are very minor. They are word for word identical in more than 95% of the text, and the differences do not change doctrine, teachings or history. They are chiefly scribal errors and variations in spelling.