Quote:What we have is a series of myths and legends edited by people with their own agendas.
Now for sure you are the one who is missing my point about the over-abundance of available copies. The copies let us determine what was and was not original. That's how we found out that the story of the woman caught in adultery was a later addition.
If there is an addition we can figure that out easily because it won't be in the majority of other copies. I'm not sure how many times I've made this same point, but you don't seem to understand how history is preserved. But if you want to make this claim I suggest you try to back it up with something historical rather than rhetorical.
Your other point is this, "Why didn't God preserve his word the way that I think that he should?" Well, maybe God isn't as pedantic as you are.
When the apostles quoted the Old Testament they were often quoting not only from the Septuagint, but also from the variants of the Septuagint, meaning that if we hold the word to its own standard it passes.
So are you telling me that you know what God's standard ought to be? And are you telling me that you know that his standard has been violated by our modern understanding of the manuscript tradition?
