Let us end with a question. What can be the use of the most absolute doctrine of the inspiration, infallibility and inerrance of the original manuscripts of the Bible (such as that taught by B. B. Warfield, for example) if the text in our hands is not entirely worthy of our trust?
In opposition to the doubts, which the deceitful practices and the errors of a science which excludes all knowledge of God from the methodology it has adopted for the study of the Bible might raise in our minds, let us quietly declare that this book in our hands, inspired and preserved by God, is indeed what it affirms to be: the very word of the living God. For God has watched with such care over the transmission of his holy word through the ages that, in spite of the falsifications produced by those who put themselves in the place of the Holy Spirit as judges of what in this book is of God, and what is not of him, we can still today hold in our hands God’s very revelation to men.
Jean-Marc Berthoud, “Is Textual Criticism To Be Feared?” in Christianity & Society, Vol. XII, No. 4 (October 2002), p. 28
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