Of course I use the expertise of language scholars etc.
And not the expertise of some in what is scripture to begin with? And the expertise of others to preserve it long after the originals are gone? It would seem to me that to even get to the point of necessity of language experts one would have to be standing on a mountain of work of others that one must trust. Agree?
More the trust that God preserved the scriptures for all through some very fallible people. Again, its God who preserves His word for us today. Its God who uses men, even men who are lost as He did with Judas and the Romans who crucified Christ. Just as He will with evil men as in Ezek 38. Its those instances and others like them that causes me not to look at the organization of men but to look deeper beyond those men for Gods word and purpose.