You do NOT believe God PRESERVED His word if you believe it's scattered among innumerable Greek & Hebrew texts. That is a mockery of the word preserve. If God preserves your soul the way you think He preserves His word - you're in trouble. And God esteems His word higher than your soul.
You say that scholars are going through mss. in an effort to recreate what the originals said. If you accomplished that, how would you know? You couldn't know - you have no originals to compare it with. I don't believe a pure scripture necessarily has to match the originals (Matthew and Luke don't match verbatim covering the same events), but I do believe it cannot conflict with something that is pure scripture (i.e. KJV) - and every modern version I've seen does conflict.
If God's word is scattered among all the mss. - if scholars were able to piece back together a perfect text - how would you know? Answer: you wouldn't. You'd change it again with the next scraps someone found buried in the Middle East. In fact you've already done that by rejecting the KJV as God's pure word.
If a lost soul asked you to show him the scripture, as defined in the (ahem!) scripture (given by inspiration of God - therefore perfect), you could not show it to him. You could only appeal to scholarship and tell him "We almost might have something pretty close."
Second post:
If we read the Bible we see there is ONE true God, ONE begotten Son, ONE true faith, ONE sacrifice for sins forever, ONE way of salvation, ONE Saviour, ONE Holy Ghost, ONE body, ONE hope, etc. etc.
Why would anyone with the spiritual discernment of a capuchin monkey think there wouldn't be ONE perfect Bible?
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