[boatbums]

Let’s not forget that all these writings were copied and recopied hundreds if not thousands of times and they were definitely not writing in English. How their words were interpreted and translated changed as well.

[GreyFriar]

I think I’m going to have to agree with you. With these writings being copied and recopied and words changed, how can we ever hope to know what was originally written in the Old and New Testaments. what we have today may be completely opposite of what was originally written. Yes, you can’t trust those old hand copiers.

[daniel1212]

Let’s not forget that all these writings were copied and recopied hundreds if not thousands of times and they were definitely not writing in English. How their words were interpreted and translated changed as well.

And consider that sacred oral tradition is only what Rome says it is, and unlike Scripture, which is verifiable due to the nature of the medium, oral tradition exists in an amorphous form, and the tradition-based EOs significantly disagree on some things as to what is valid O.T.

And unlike Scripture, consider some of the plainly unScriptural things which esteemed fathers held to.