How To Answer Bible Difficulties +

One of the favorite things for Muslims is to talk about passages in the Bible that are hard to reconcile.  I have found that most of these problems have reasonably satisfactory answers, such as those found here:

http://www.debate.org.uk/debate-topics/apologetic/contrads/

We must keep in mind that what is important is the message of the Bible, which is the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.  The New Testament only came years after Jesus' ministry, so they had Christianity without the New Testament.  Therefore the New Testament is always secondary to Jesus and his resurrection.

What is more significant than minor discrepancies that Muslims focus on is the large areas of agreement in the New Testament.  All 27 books affirm the crucifixion of Jesus.
The fact that there are these difficulties goes to show that the Bible did not come from a centralized source.  Also the fact that early Christians and the later copyists did not try to smooth out these issues contradicts the major defense of Muslims against the Bible, namely that the Christians changed the Bible.

What this says is that Muslims can have Bible difficulties, or Christians making up the Bible, but they cannot have both.