Quote Originally Posted by Hax View Post
No it's just that -- have you ever considered the fact that it's kind of weird that there are really specific points being made (possibly the modern-day equivalent of the supposed "angels dancing on the head of a pin"-debate) but that we're all completely dependent on translations?

It's like some guy in Korea writing about the ideas brought forth by Mark Twain while relying on a Russian translation, and that times a hundred. How is it actually possible to know what the people writing the Bible thought or meant, because we're practically reliant on translated commentary upon translated commentary (it's totally the same with Biblical and Quranic studies, by the way).
Exactly... but that is the debate on sola scriptura which we wont do here, all though it is related.. as in begging the question to an authoritative record.