[CynicalBear]

>> It would seem to me that to even get to the point of necessity of language experts one would have to be standing on a mountain of work of others that one must trust. Agree?<<

More the trust that God preserved the scriptures for all through some very fallible people. Again, it’s God who preserves His word for us today. It’s God who uses men, even men who are lost as He did with Judas and the Romans who crucified Christ. Just as He will with evil men as in Ezek 38. It’s those instances and others like them that causes me not to look at the organization of men but to look deeper beyond those men for God’s word and purpose.

[D-fendr]

Well, we are in agreement here:

More the trust that God preserved the scriptures for all through some very fallible people.

Thank God for the fallible people of His Church that copied, transmitted, preserved the scriptures for us through many extremely violent and turbulent times. It's amazing; definitely a God thing.

.;)