[verga]

And a LOT can happen/change in 397 years. One of the best and most secure methods of ensuring continuity of the integrity of the scriptures, is to disseminate them across numerous people, across multiple languages and multiple countries. Consider, we have modified our Constitution considerably in the past 200 years; has the Bible been similarily modified to meet changes in culture, opinions and political maneuverings? Such is the nature of man, to twist and maniuplate the truth to suit their needs at the moment. Still, politics and corruption will take their toll. Satan certainly has plenty of opportuntity to inject chaos, confusion and debate. Today, how mamy ‘versions’ of the bible are there? How many ‘versions’ have there been throughout the past 1600 years? To me, getting access to records that have passed through time for almost 2,000 years - is an opportunity to measure how far the Bible has drifted from the origional. Isn’t it interesting that no one is comparing the Dead Sea Scrolls against our modern Bible? Neither affirming, or condemning our modern intrepetations - no comments. Who would benefit from withholding information like this, and why?

What evidence would convince you? That is a serious question, because for those that have faith none is required, for those that do not none will suffice.

[Hodar]

All knowledge is good, by virtue of being true. What aspects of Christianity have been dropped; because of political strife in ~350AD? What books have been re-written to manipulate politics in the years since they records were origionally written.

Isn’t having a touchstone - something that has remained UNCHANGED for 2,000 years a good thing? Many of the origional texts have been lost - and can never be replaced. Having a reference record, is a good thing.

Consider, just as a point of reference:
First addressed to Peter: Matt 16:19 “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

and again in Mat 18:18 “I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

Bind what?

1 Corinithians 15:29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

Baptizing the dead is pretty specifically dropped from the rest of the New Testament. Why? What else was censored by an unknown caretaker?

Questions do not indicate unbelief; they are questions of a believer who is intelligent enough to realize that the current record is incomplete.