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No one revised the Dead Sea Scrolls.
But keep trusting in your University educated historians and Smithsonian gatekept narrative if you’d like. They are the “experts” after all.
I’ll stick to the most ancient and reliable manuscripts thanks.
I trust the traditional scribal transmission method from Moses to Ezra (and the men of the Great Assembly; Daniel, Mordechai, etc.) to DSS. And which subsequently has remained unchanged from DSS to Masoretes to our time. Along with all the extra-biblical manuscripts supporting the scribal transmission’s fidelity and accuracy.
Usually when anti-theist scholars have issues with Scripture it is moreso over the denial of the metaphysical nature of its truth rather than its historical narrative. In truth, throughout history the Bible has debunked archaeologists many times (see, Nineveh for ex.).
For me the issue is trusting a few modern revisionist university trained Egyptologists vs. millennia of meticulous scribal tradition.
But as a mentioned already, we’ll have to agree to disagree since I believe God is able to preserve His messages. Ultimately adherence to the ancient scriptural prophetic narrative comes down to faith vs. adherence to the archaeological (scientific) narrative which, by definition, requires skepticism.
Also, since you mentioned it a couple times already - don’t discount the effect that negative emotions are having on your reasoning process. A resentment toward a corrupt political religious system having been forced upon you will undoubtedly bias you toward any pursuit of truth. What you have done is akin to someone throwing away, say the Constitution since America has done such a crappy job adhering to it. If I was to judge the Constitution solely by America’s citizenry and its political parties I would be doing myself a disservice.
Concerning Scripture, context matters.
Anyone can make Scripture support whatever strange teaching they want with one or two out of context quotes… and they often have and they still do… all the time. Scripture is clear and warns about Scripture twisting and quoting out of context. Ironically it’s one of the reasons some of the scribes and Pharisees of Jesus’ day were rebuked.
Everything Jesus did/said supported the accuracy and authenticity of Scripture - the same Scripture we have today (Dead Sea Scrolls predate Jesus). And He also said many times that He had other sheep (not of His flock/Israel) that He would gather in to His flock. He explicitly sent His followers to go to the Gentiles and to the ends of the earth and to make other disciples.
However, even very early on (the New Testament discusses this thoroughly), the true faith was being corrupted by agents of the evil one - who appear as ministers of light. And political Christianity under Constantine, the Holy Roman Empire and subsequent European regimes have carried on that corruption. So much so that it is difficult for anti-theists to separate true faith from the hypocrisy.
The evil one can’t create. He only twists what is good to deceive and give excuses to hard-hearts to avoid the good.
Again - a few snippets of truth mixed in with presuppositions and negative emotions is not and will never be the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
“All Scripture is god-breathed” (2 Tim. 3:16) and “No Scripture is of private interpretation,” (2 Pet. 1:20) but Scripture must interpret Scripture. Context matters.