Well said, micro. And thank you for the biblical passages. Excellent work.
Many have attempted to change the words, add to, or subtract from God's words over the centuries. Even the scholars involved in the original King James version were not without flaw. They (or some of them) did not believe in the virgin birth of Christ, and thus translated those passages as 'a young maid'. But the original textus receptus remained, and is still used today for checking the accuracy of translations.
The wildly proclaimed Dead Sea Scrolls are another example - the argument was that because they were 'older' than any other 'copies' that they must be better. That of course ignored the obvious logical problem of 'Why do they still exist ?' - Could it be that they still exist because few ever used them because they were known to be extremely flawed at the time of their 'writing'/'copying' ? There is another example of a so-called 'oldest' version of a 'bible' found in an African 'church' (in Ethiopia I think) - which differed WILDLY from everything else ever preserved. Some attempted to pass this off as 'The Truth'. Serious scholars rejected it, completely. For good reasons.
There actually has been a lot of scholarly logic, thought, and science used in this area. God does not allow his Word to be corrupted.
As in the Garden, the snake will always continue attempting to twist and distort what God has actually said. Those that listen to the snake will be deceived.
An example - 'will surely die'. Twist, well they didn't die for hundreds of years. SO ? Did they die? Yes. The implication in the verse is that they would live forever, never die. BUT the verse does not state that, so an implication of that verse must NOT be treated as being 'what the bible' says. We must use the full 'context' (ie. ALL of the Word of God), and never, ever add to or subtract from what is actually there.
Faith comes by hearing, and hearing of/by the Word.
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