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For that matter, is any translation of the bible into its many languages “God inspired”? No. God gave him a brain, the Catholic Church gave him an education, and he made good use of them. As for the Protestant version....they left out some and that wasn’t divinely inspired me thinks or you would have to say the earlier Church Council was WRONG, in which case the whole dang thing, every bit of it becomes suspect. Maybe the unhappies are right?

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So one must agree that all Councils possessed absolute perfection in all things to be happy? No. No one possesses absolute perfection in any thing, so we must not be hasty to say - regardless of whatever time period we are in - that we now have the “best” manuscript(s) to go by.

The Original Manuscripts were inspired.

The Dead Sea Scrolls (from the Qumran Community) are nearly identical to modern OT texts, and it would seem likely that given 2,000 years from then until now, (depending upon the dating of the Qumran Community), that the preceding years to the Qumran Community did not diminish the efficacy of the OT text.

But what of Uncials B, S, and V?

Are they the best and most reliable if they did not possess inspiration in the act of compilation? Was the act of compiling these Uncials inspired?

How so, if Uncial S contains unauthoritative NT works (both Barnabas and Hermas)?

And what of Uncial B since it contains unauthoritative 3 and 4 Maccabees as well as 2 Clement?