It doesn't need to be simpler, it needs to make sense.
You're not making any sense.
a thousand years ago
Again, we're talking about different things.
Did you not understand what you were asked?
No. You haven't explained who is doing the vetting you're asking about, which is critical to answering.
newer versions
So not the same scriptures then.
The texts change in response to our interpretation over time
New texts being created is not the same thing as changing texts. People don't go around with a pen and update pages.
No you didn't.
me and my wife
As her legal wife
we got married
You got married? In a religious ceremony in a Christian church? Or you had a civil ceremony and are now in a civil partnership?
You're wrong. As shown by the source you yourself gave.
Vetted by whom?
there is no such thing as an "original" Bible text
I never said there was. And the existence of more than one accepted scripture doesn't contradict what I said. Each of those scriptures will not adapt to its environment.
there'd be no way to perfectly preserve their meaning over the many of thousands of years they developed.
Again, we're talking about different things. You're talking about long periods of time where human civilisation develops, where scriptures are translated, reinterpreted, etc. into new scriptures. I'm saying that the King James Bible of the 1950s was the same King James Bible of the 1970s and didn't adapt in response to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
I'm not sure how you determined that but it doesn't make any difference to our communication. You're not making sense to me. If you want to communicate with me, I need to understand you.
I don't think you want to communicate.