(June 27, 2014 at 10:59 pm)Irrational Wrote:(June 27, 2014 at 9:40 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: You guys keep digging your hole deeper and deeper with ever post. By your own statements you admitted that the other works were incomplete and fragmented. Wycliffe and his buddies put it all together in its current format. And because it was Englishmen who wrote the Bible it gained credibility. Hell, people still believe every word in the King Arthur saga.
Even if all older works were fragmented, that does not mean they weren't altogether used as the source to translate.
Logic, my friend, learn it well.
So you think some crazy old coot who's living in some Fourth Century hovel had the resources to collect all of those various bits and pieces of religious manuscripts scattered in the lands around the Mediterranean Sea and then translate them?
I just saw Jesus walking through the clouds.