Admissions of a former priest who is my friend on facebook? 24/:40?

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Apparently your former priest fell asleep during the lectures covering where we got the New Testament...

There are three separate lines of evidence - Transmitted Manuscripts (MSS) are just one of those lines..The other two lines aer

1. Letters by early church leaders quoting the New Testament texts (dating from First and early Second Century)

2. Early version (translations) of the New Testament (Two in the First Century one in the early Second Century).

IF there were 0 MSS the entire New Testament could be reproduced from these two other lines of evidence.

Your argument therefore is rendered moot. This is why the only people who take 'textual criticism' seriously are textual critics and skeptics.. People who have actually taken the time to study where we got our present New Testament and examined the lines of evidence recognize textual criticism is nonsense.