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The Bible was changed plenty before it made its way into the hands of the public at large. You never know if what you're reading is the true original. Don't get hung up on the details. The Bible teaches one thing no matter how many translations or alterations it goes through: a man with faith can talk to and learn directly from God. Scripture should be the starting point. The experiences the men in those many books had should be where it leads you. Only the Spirit of God will tell you the truth. Let reading the Bible put your head in the right place, then turn to the source, or even the Bible can and will lead you astray.
I'm not sure what heresy you are involved with, but it is one. You are locked into a contradiction: "the Bible teaches..." and "...even the Bible can and will lead you astray." So, does it teach or does it lead us astray? All you are left with is a formless monotheism. And how would you even know if that is correct?
As for what the Bible teaches, one lesson is that God is more powerful than the disbelief of a faithless man (cf. the conversion of Saul to Paul) or the disobedience of a faithful man (Book of Jonah).
This is not our swim lane.
Ask the scribes and pharisees. Did their obsession with the scriptures save them? When the truth was right in front of them but it didn't line up with their reading of scripture, where should they have turned? If you make the scriptures the source of all your knowledge and wisdom and miss the point that you should be going directly to God to know truth from error where will that lead you? If someone altered the bible in a critical way before it reached your hands how would you know if not by the spirit of God? The Bible speaks of a living God we have every right and obligation to commune with. When you take a hard look at the people who put the Bible together, if that doesn't tip you off that maybe it's not the end all be all of the truth, you aren't thinking very hard. Read the Bible. Let it center your mind. Then go to the source. If you lack the faith to believe you can commune directly with God, that's not on me. If that's your only link to God for now, hold fast. But just remember, words can be altered. But truth is truth regardless of the medium. And so is error. The Bible points you to the fountain of living waters. It's still up to you to go there and drink.
And you duck the question. And all you have is a baseless distrust of a document you offer as a reliable guide.
We do not know God except through His Word, which is the Bible and Jesus Christ. That's what it says. Faith is not of our own making, nor are we saved by our own seeking. That is also what it says.
Look, if you want to argue with the Bible, that is your burden. But it is not a fit subject for this page. I'm just not interested in your home brew.
I answered your question. The scribes and pharisees held up their scriptures in Jesus' face too. He didn't mind quoting it, but he spoke "as one having authority, and not as the scribes." It means he communed directly with God. Faith comes by hearing the word of God. In other words, it comes by hearing truth. When you read truth in the Bible and it inspires faith, you should act on that faith. The Bible does not have to be inerrant for it to accomplish this. But if you make it your source, then the alterations that have been made to it will lead you astray. And you too may be found to be flapping it at some actual servant of God someday who actually knows what he's talking about because he went to the source, and demanding his stoning because you never became a doer of the word.
The Bible is your God. God is mine. That's your burden.