Comment Re:Lemme chime in here... (Score 1) 1766
For me the killer argument is not so much about the importance of getting as close to the original source as possible as it is about the original source for their infallible guide to life, the universe & everything not existing!
If it was *that* important that a divine being (TM) get his message across, and going on the assumption that the aforementioned divine being (TM) was omnipotent and omniscient and all those good things, it could surely not have been that hard to ensure the survival of the original manuscripts as well as a huge number of speakers of the languages it was written in, for posterity?
If it was *that* important that a divine being (TM) get his message across, and going on the assumption that the aforementioned divine being (TM) was omnipotent and omniscient and all those good things, it could surely not have been that hard to ensure the survival of the original manuscripts as well as a huge number of speakers of the languages it was written in, for posterity?