Anytime that mankind makes a writing on Bible scriptures, some error creeps in by default!
every word in the scriptures, even in the original languages, was written by man.
only the tablets of Moses, the wall of king Belshazarr, and the dust in which Christ put His finger, in all of scripture, we're written by God Himself - but the record of the first two were transcribed byam and the third was not transcribed at all.
yes there are also the 5 books of life and judgement - and we also aren't told what is written in them. and God also writes our new names on white stones - - hidden things, that no man can know. these exist; that's important
but look, even in Aramaic, in Hebrew, and in Greek, it was man writing God's Word. Jesus never put stylus to papyrus. so the moment you say, all scripture is suspect and subject to your personal spirit as far as "what it should say"....
.. well my friend please do not forget the translators of the major English actual-translations ((not modern paraphrases)) were also Christian and have the same claim to the Spirit of discernment you do, but on top of that they also have decades upon decades of devotion to study of languages and interpretation - - some studied Hebrew and Greek for over 50 years. Many were native speakers. None of them were totally without education but armed with internet. how do you compare?
God willed it that His word should be transmitted through humans and in earthly language. asking can we trust it because it involved mankind, and then ourselves, humans, thinking we know better, is highly suspicious.
but at the same time - - the tower of Babel is real.
every time anything is translated from one language to another, either information is lost because the target language is less complex and/or doesn't share all the same nuance, or information is artificially added for the inverse reasons.
so yes there is that. real study at the deepest levels requires intimate, fluent knowledge of the original languages and discerning study of the available manuscript evidence - - and overall is Spirit led.
but the Spirit told exactly one person the truth today but no one else in the last 2000 years? and every leaned man for a thousand years missed some obvious thing, but a complete novice that had trouble swallowing the astounding things they read, saw it? be very, very skeptical of any such thought. the scripture is full of mystery and things beyond human understanding - we should expect that: it's the word of infinite God
the Bereans were noble because they examined everything carefully, not because they rejected those who went before them whenever convenient
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