Facing the Morally Bad Future

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Because they had nothing to do with the 'original' message. What does a scribe's marginal notes 200 years after the events have to do with those people said to have been writing by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit? It's as if we were to grab your notes that you have jotted down over the course of your life as a Christian and add them to the Bible. Why not?

Because my notes are for me to use in studying scripture. Moses was not around during the events of Genesis. How do you know that some of the copies from the originals were not around, the scribes many times buried the old manuscripts and in that climate they could have lasted for many years. Once found they may have been used to fill in what had been missing, mind you I'm speculating here, but with a possibility. I know there are some small amount which has been added, and once this was confirmed it was brought to light and noted in good study Bibles which everyone needs to learn about scriptures.

If you're supposing that the originals were inevitably contaminated by the extra verses anyways then that doesn't really help your situation. The end result is that we still have these writings with many people's thoughts included in them.

There's definitely some work that has been done to weed out the additions, but with no surviving orinigals there's only so much one can do.