(August 7, 2021 at 10:12 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Bart asks a question: if God wanted us to have his words (Bible) why did he allow people to change them so that we don't know which are his and which are made up by humans?
God made a stupid plan when he expected people to know him only by the Bible because he also let this huge mishap to happen, so now we don't have his words.
Even believers in historical Jesus don't know which words are his and which were added later. Some are known to be later additions, like the story of an adulterous woman, but none can be said with certainty to be said by Jesus.
This is not really different from the questions of why God allows evil, why God allows unbelief, etc.
A standard response would be that the recipients of Jesus's sayings have free will, and are capable of altering it. Although God could of course protect the Bible from any corruption, allowing it doesn't seem to be a threat to theism.