re: “Not really. If you look at the Bible from a secular view point, it’s one continuous rewrite.”
Ok, I’ll bite. How so? There are thousands of Hebrew manuscripts of the Old Testament, plus the Septuagint (Greek translation of the Old Testament), and over five thousand Greek New Testament manuscripts.
Yes, there are a few negligible scribal errors (repeating words, letters, etc.) but no theological contradictions. The scribes were extremely meticulous in making a copy - one discovered mistake and the whole copy was tossed.
I’m not an expert on the Hebrew and Greek manuscripts, but from what I have read and studied, it is clear that the Old and New Testaments are reliably sourced with hundreds of thousands of copies to rely on.
If you’re speaking of English translations, there is always going to be the need for updates in minor language usage over the decades and centuries - but, that is NOT rewriting the Bible. You cannot change the basic meaning of the Hebrew and Greek texts. Sometimes we can sharpen up the translation of a phrase or word with new archeological discoveries, but again, we’re only speaking of minor word usage - not major doctrinal teachings.
The Hebrew and Greek texts use the masculine pronoun “He” not “She” when referring to God. To change that IS rewriting the Hebrew and Greek Biblical texts.
English “translations” are NOT the Biblical text. The Hebrew and Greek manuscripts are.
Well, my response was regarding a secular view point of the Bible. You are looking at it through a religious lens and assuming (if I understand correctly) that at one point in time there was a perfect divine canonical autograph from which later copies, in a variety of languages, were made.
If you see the Bible from a religious view point, then changing it makes no sense.
Secularists view it as a human construction that developed organically over time and that underwent many changes, edits and redactions.