[chris1]

My point is that these are creations of man and stories that were passed on through an oral tradition for years before they were put to writing.

Do you even remotely consider the chance that these stories were at all manipulated or altered for the audience of the today for which they were written?

[Blessed]

>Do you even remotely consider the chance that these stories were at all manipulated or altered for the audience of the today for which they were written?<

Do you not believe that a God powerful enough to speak this world into existence could preserve his word from this.

By the way we have more scripture preserved from 2000 -2500 years ago to compare for accuracy than any other historical documents including the writings of Socrates and Plato.

[Aquinasfan]

My point is that these are creations of man

Inspired by God.

...and stories that were passed on through an oral tradition for years before they were put to writing.

True.

Do you even remotely consider the chance that these stories were at all manipulated or altered for the audience of the today for which they were written?

I've considered it, but rejected it, because the scribes were fastidious about copying Scripture. Proof of this is the fact that generations of scribes left in the Torah a very important passage which seems to contradict monotheism.

Genesis 1:26

Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness,