[Elsie]

I put my confidence on the ones maintained and preserved by a plurality of faithful churches, the Byzantine/Majority Textform.

AYE; there's the rub!

Churches faithful to WHAT?

This sounds mighty like circular logic.

Text can be either true or false and STILL have folks 'faithful' to it.

[imardmd1]

Churches faithful to WHAT?

Not circular, Silly. Faithful to God, guided by the Spirit. God does the choosing, commissioning, and pre/con/serving. More later. (I just wiped out a more detailed response by creating it in Firefox and then miskeying, rather than composing in a text editor. So, tomorrow.)