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Clearly, such variations in length and translations are significant for theological constructs, but such variations also demonstrate that what we have in our hands titled the "Holy Bible" is not the pristine word of God everyone pretends it to be, but rather a product of various authors, altered for different agendas, written in different languages, under different influences and historical realities, and most of all translated in a variety of ways from an abundance of "variants."

I've tried to say this on other threads and been told that I "don't respect the Jews for keeping accurate transcriptions of the OT".

Without desiring any thread/topic hijack here, I was wondering what is your take on the OT: Has that been accurately transcribed throughout the generations, and/or can we rely on, say, the Dead Sea Scrolls to "prove" that the OT has remained "infallible" (as some might use the term) throughout the centuries?

I was wondering what is your take on the OT: Has that been accurately transcribed throughout the generations, and/or can we rely on, say, the Dead Sea Scrolls to "prove" that the OT has remained "infallible"

Since the Church has declared them infallible, and the Church councils are never wrong when they make a declaration, then isn't it true that the scriptures are in fact infallible? It seems to me the Catholics take a great deal of pain in trying to convince us Church pronouncements are never wrong, yet they ignore the inspiration of the scriptures.