Providentially Protected and Preserved

“So we must understand there are two different approaches to textual work. One expresses confidence that God has protected His Word down through history. This is a faith position — faith in God. The other presupposition says that it is up to man, through neutral, scholarly, and scientific means, to determine what the original text of the Bible was. This is a faith position too — faith in man” (Mother Kirk, p. 54).