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> but Christians largely believe that God will supernaturally preserve the Bible no matter what

You know, until you put it in this context, it hadn't occurred to me how--from some perspectives--"convenient" that is. :)

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Also convenient that the church leaders 350 years later chose the correct books to put in the Bible when they canonized it.

That's what divine inspiration is for.

I mean. Bibles are everywhere. It is really hard to imagine all of them getting destroyed all at once. Even harder to imagine a scenario where that happens and yet we have humans still around after that.

We have left one on the moon! https://episcopalnewsservice.org/2019/07/19/the-only-bible-o...

I'm American and have spent the majority of my life in the US, so limited perspective and all, but Bibles are literally disposable here. There's plenty of instances of overzealous churches setting up on a corner and forcing cheap mass produced pocket-Bibles into the hands of college students or pedestrians on the street who walk past them. The Christians already have usable full sized copies and will eventually realize they don't need a hard to read $0.10 copy and the unreligious mostly don't want it at all, neither group revere the physical item and will commonly throw it away. Some Christians take even take pride in showing off they have a well used Bible, to the point that they purposefully let it get worn and ragged. Eventually they will also just replace it with a fresh copy. I think you could excavate any random landfill in the US if you absolutely needed to retrieve a few hundred intact copies of the Bible.

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