Two thousand years of oral tradition and we’re supposed to swallow that it was passed on unchanged in that time?
What a joke.
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible”
Matthew 19:26
the joke is thinking the gates of hell prevailed against the Church, i have it on pretty good AUTHORITY this isn’t possible.
It IS a joke. Many of our modern languages didn't even exist in the early centuries A.D. Not only that, some words totally changed meanings over time (i.e.; to "let", used to mean "to hold back" but now it means "to allow") or words in one language had no comparable word in another language. The Greek language often uses multiple words to express a concept that in English, for example, gets translated as one word. For example, in John 10:28, the Greek word translated as the one English word "never" is really a triple negative and, rather than the verse saying we "shall never perish", in Greek it is saying, "no, not, never, at any time, any place, for any purpose, whether male, female or even neuter, perpetually, eternally" perish. Big difference, right? So, depending just upon oral "tradition" to keep the truth pure is a mighty flimsy method - one that Almighty God already demonstrated by the Old Testament writings is NOT His preferable way. God inspired it, God preserves it.