[Elsie]

Speaking for myself; I'd rather trust multiple streams of historical documents, each slightly differing in small details, with evidence stretching back thousands of years, than a single sourced book, from only one man, to hang my eternal soul's safety upon.

And that 'source' is nowhere to be found today!

[daniel1212]

Meaning without the small text, you would be close to Caths making the uninspired words of men, as chosen and interpreted by their self-proclaimed by the one true church - even if not written by hundreds of years - definitive of what the NT church believed, more so than the wholly God-inspired and substantive body of writings, consistent with how the NT church began.