For the only reason (I came to think) for God to inspire the Bible would be so that his people would have his actual words; but if he really wanted people to have his actual words, surely he would have miraculously preserved those words, just as he had miraculously inspired them in the first place.

Bart D. Ehrman (b. 1955) American Biblical scholar, author

Misquoting Jesus, “Conclusion” (2005)
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