Oh, So we can’t trust the oldest written manuscripts but we can trust oral tradition?
Word of mouth is more reliable than written documents which can be referred back to?
And just when were these oral tradition (alleged) teachings of Jesus written down to insure fidelity to the original, so that there was no chance of them being twisted of changed from the original over the course of hundreds or thousands of years?
What did I say about the oldest written manuscripts?
Word of mouth is more reliable than written documents which can be referred back to?
What did I say about written documents?
And just when were these oral tradition (alleged) teachings of Jesus written down to insure fidelity to the original, so that there was no chance of them being twisted of changed from the original over the course of hundreds or thousands of years?
Actually, 1500 years. But the answer is, gradually and over time. And there were approximately 80 versions of the Gospels, with multiple versions of each. And multiple versions of hundreds of books that were considered to be NT Scripture at one point or another.