Misquoting Jesus

Author concluded that, because God did not preserve texts of New Testament, even though He could have, they therefore are not divinely inspired.

Errors were made as a result of accieent - wrong word, skipped lines, etc.

Changes made deliberately to emphasize point being made by individual authors.

I had never thought of the books in the Bible as either literary or political texts before - e.g. why do the four Gospels have different versions of the Passion - depends on what each author wanted to emphasize. “Duh” moment for me.

“Genealogy” of individual manuscripts is traceable through common errors.

King James Version of the Bible is complete crap.

(Recommended reading: Living Text of the Gospels by David C. Parker 1997 Columbia Univ. Press)