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I disagree. We need to look at more than the number of words in question. Even the placement of a comma can affect the meaning of a phrase, in doctrinally important ways.

Buddhist writings certainly record miracles of Buddha. Buddha's Miracles Manifest - Sravasti Abbey - A Buddhist Monastery

You're missing the point -- and underscoring the importance of another one. The point you are missing is that an "all-powerful, all-knowing" (your phrase) God could have guided all copyists to ensure 0.00% errors in all copies. He didn't. The point that is exacerbated by your praise of how...

But we know to a certainty that Scripture DID get corrupted. The KJV adds things that weren't in the Masoretic Text and removes things that were in it. The Masoretic Text adds things that weren't in the LXX and removes things that were in it. And so on. Nowhere on the planet does the...

Doesn't Exodus 19:5 speak of a covenant with Israel?

How then do you interpret Deut. 7:6?

Jesus told this to the Twelve. What's your point?

Actually, all I "proved" was that I don't agree with YOUR understanding of what these things mean.

I'd say you ended your fast by midnight on the sixth day. But that's if you fasted for ONLY six days. Did your fast last 145 hours, or 144? Each is consistent with fasting for six days. I cannot tell whether or not you snacked after midnight in the sixth. I understand your point, but resting...

Just because one is "born" again doesn't mean salvation is assured. John 3:3 portrays being born again as a necessary condition to salvation, not a sufficient one. (This is much the same issue one sees in distinguishing being justified from being sanctified.)

I have found that I need to dig deeper than the KJV, and indeed than any English translation, to see where they found their base. I'll give you an example: Gen. 2:2a in the Masoretic Text – which was followed by the KJV -- states that God completed His work on the seventh day, while the...

I've studied lots of English translations, the Latin Vulgate, and the Textus Receptus, as well as quotes of Scripture in the Early Church Fathers.

I'm envious. I've been doing the same for fifty years, and I have reached the opposite conclusion from you on the subject of inerrancy.

There are several ways to define "inspire." One of them is surely "without error," although I wouldn't adopt that one myself -- at least not if factual as opposed to theological errors are included. Over a century ago William James, in The Varieties of Religious Experience, noted that "if our...

How would you know?

Oh, I have no such idea that He can't. But that's a far cry from saying He did. The evidence just isn't there, my friend. Here is what you should think about when considering translations, straight from the foremost textual critic of the last century, Bruce Metzger...

No, I wanted to point out that "better off" is subject-dependent (and one of the examples I happened to give was of the mother of a nonviable fetus). You wanted to know about the middle or lower class being "better off." Obviously I haven't taken a poll of either class, and since we know that...

I'm just pointing out that the "nonsense" of fetuses that cannot survive is actually a real thing. But if you need a break, I'll oblige.

Has anyone actually told you that the word of God is filled with mistakes? Or just that "the Bible" -- that wonderful compilation of writings on your shelf -- is filled with mistakes due to human rather than divine error? (You do recognize the difference, don't you?)

I never said that graphé appears in 2 Tess. 2:15, although you accused me of saying so several times. And called me a liar when I denied it! Who is the liar here?