I probably should have separated into paragraphs. I meant that it's been awhile since I read Exodus in reference to "God wrote and handed to Moses...specifically Exodus," but I didn't mean to say Moses passed away in the book with my next statement. Rather, that he did within the timespan of the Pentateuch.
So, God wrote the Decalog, gave it to Moses, and it got smashed but re-written presumably without error. In that way the original text and its copied could have been called God's literal words, but translations are still works of men.
In this way, our Scriptures are distinct from the texts of Mohammed because translations are not recognized as the same text, whereas we do recognize translations as legitimate, albeit not normally protected by infallibility.
This is, I guess, reason #58 against Sola Scriptura: which translation, or canon for that matter, is the actual authoritative one? KJV-only? The Latin Vulgate? Who decides?
James Lewis
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