Isaiah and the Dead Sea Scrolls

I believe the subject of their discussion was the differences between older copies of the same Gospel, not the differences between different Gospels.I note from your comments that you feel the Bible is not completely inerrant. The point to be made of the inconsistancies that you mentioned is that the Bible is not inerrant in all things. Otherwise, how could the "failing memories of the writers" affect this "God breathed" document? The only thing that should be in question is whether the spiritual message is consistent throughout the Bible.

I have to agree with your line of thinking.While Tagless is trying to pin Faith to a wall with his nitpicking of what she said, he is giving the impression that the DSS offers no support for her position.She says that the similarity between the DSS manuscripts and the modern versions of the Bible give a strong indication that the majority of scribes, through the centries, maintained high quality control standards in their copying of these texts. This care in maintaining the text, gives some credence to the supposition that the scribes, or their supervisors, held these documents in high regard...even as sacred. This high level of belief by those in charge of the records speaks highly of the veracity of the content of those documents.Tagless cannot say that the Isaiah scroll is not evidence in that regard. Even if it is not the exact document that was copied, it is still evidence that the document that was copied was the same as it or very similar. If the original document from that time, copied down through the centries was changed, purposefully or not, the chances are small that it would have turned out so similar to the DSS Isaiah, if it was not already very similar in the first place.Questions that might be asked are:Was the quality control more stringently adhered to for Biblical texts than for non-Biblical texts?Does the strictness of adherence to quality control relate in any way to the actual truth of the documents copied or is that strictness a product of the belief that they are true?