Because those edits happened at least a millennium ago, and not many people were actually able to read the books or know changes were made at that time anyway.
Besides what could be snuck in through "mistranslations", the overall content of the Abrahamic books are pretty set in stone at this point. Good luck convincing billions of people to accept a version of the "Word of God" that was revised in their lifetime to remove whole swaths of text.
Of course most people just ignore vast parts of their books (most of whom haven't even read those parts), but those parts are still there, still considered part of the holy text, and therefore form contradictions that allow reactionaries to point to them and say we should be following them.
Besides what could be snuck in through “mistranslations”, the overall content of the Abrahamic books are pretty set in stone at this point.
There were entire insertions centuries after the fact. Jesus and the adulterer? Totally made up and added. , it seems.
Good luck convincing billions of people to accept a version of the “Word of God” that was revised in their lifetime to remove whole swaths of text.
I mean that has happened on the scale of millions. CoJCoLDS revelation is a tangled mess of evolving self-contradictions that the membership just go along with when they have good reason to. It's just a matter of giving people a good reason to that resonates with them.
Besides, no one here is advocating for a wholesale restorationism movement of leftist religion like you seem to be implying. I'm just pointing out that a person can absolutely yeet Paul's thoughts on women in the ministry and still consider themselves a Christian and that's neither cheating or a hack.
Because those edits happened at least a millennium ago, and not many people were actually able to read the books or know changes were made at that time anyway.
Besides what could be snuck in through "mistranslations", the overall content of the Abrahamic books are pretty set in stone at this point. Good luck convincing billions of people to accept a version of the "Word of God" that was revised in their lifetime to remove whole swaths of text.
Of course most people just ignore vast parts of their books (most of whom haven't even read those parts), but those parts are still there, still considered part of the holy text, and therefore form contradictions that allow reactionaries to point to them and say we should be following them.
There were entire insertions centuries after the fact. Jesus and the adulterer? Totally made up and added. , it seems.
I mean that has happened on the scale of millions. CoJCoLDS revelation is a tangled mess of evolving self-contradictions that the membership just go along with when they have good reason to. It's just a matter of giving people a good reason to that resonates with them.
Besides, no one here is advocating for a wholesale restorationism movement of leftist religion like you seem to be implying. I'm just pointing out that a person can absolutely yeet Paul's thoughts on women in the ministry and still consider themselves a Christian and that's neither cheating or a hack.