And in the absence of the original "breathed" manuscripts you have nothing but a bunch of copies of copies that have manipulated by fallible men to their own ends. American Christianity is a business. When you say, "the Bible" which one do you mean? They do not all say the same thing. KJV? ESV? The Word? Jefferson's Bible? How about the disagreements Jewish scholars have the translations of the Tanakh vs Christin versions of the Old Testament? When you begin to explain the differences in these translations the holes begin to widen.