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The Christian world has appreciated the "lousy" job that they did for the last 400 years than the job that the Greeks didn't do at all

You mean the Protestant world?

He received a lot of manuscripts from the Greeks but chose only the two most reliable and representative

Your ignorance is amusing. Somone taught you the exact opposite...hmmm, who could that be?

Oh no -- don't tell us that the Greeks actually left words out of their own manuscrripts. God Forbid. Thank God that the Latin retained them

No, only his "reliable" copies didn't.

And since he knew Greek and Latin so well, he probably fixed the text for you guys

Actually, his Greek was lousy. Besides, what he presented was a fraud.

Why indeed??? They may know Greek, but they sure don't know English.

Actually, it's usually the English=speaking people who don't know any oyther language (they don't even know English it seems), but the Greeks were under no obligation to make translations for nayone, let alone English which was hardly alanguage capable of prose, let alone biblical complexity. Anglo-Saxon contained about 500 grumnts before it borrowed heavily form Latin and Norman languages.

Codex Alexandrinus is a hybrid

It's still "christianzied" compared to earlier Codices, and therefore less reliable.

What exactly is "corrupt" about the oldest Bibles that's not found in those produced on later versions of "received text?" The whole Bible is one big human corruption—additins, delitions, word swapapings, erasures, changes, scribal errors, you name it. We are not even close to anything that resembles a "received text," and the Erasmus's book by that name and its KJV deirvative are about as far out on the periphery as it gets.

Codex Alexandrinus is a hybrid. It's still "christianzied" compared to earlier Codices, and therefore less reliable.

The Jews were faithful to preserve the Hebrew scriptures entrusted to them. What happened to you Greeks????

You know, kosta, these are the Greek scriptures that you are talking about here -- the scriptures that God entrusted to the Greek Church, that they were supposed to preserve, maintain, and protect from corruption. You are saying that the Greek Church failed and were not up to the task.

If the Greek Orthodox could not be trusted with the scriptures entrusted to them, then what makes you think that any of those other things that the Greek Orthodox do and proclaim are not also corrupted????

Your words are not a condemnation of the Greek scriptures but a condemnation of the Eastern Orthodox Church entrusted with those scriptures -- if in fact you are correct. If the scriptures passed from Greek Orthodox hands to the West were not reliable, then the Greek Orthodox are not reliable. Would you like another chance at the question???