[OLD REGGIE]

What is your point? That, because we do not have the original manuscripts of the Gospels, we should disregard them?

We have copies of the New Testament from the second, third, fourth centuries. There is no reason to believe that they are substantially changed from the first century originals.

Not one of them which is identical. You have no more idea than I what the exact wording was.

[Natural Law]

"You have no more idea than I what the exact wording was."

That admission of Scriptural cluelessness was both unexpected and refreshing. Absent a teaching authority you are pretty much doomed to fumbling along blindly, lashing out at others until your day of reckoning.

[Cronos]

You have no more idea than I what the exact wording was.

iowamark -- and remember this is anti-"sola scriptura" yet arguing on the basis of ss -- talk of contradictory!!