A common question raised by some is why God has not left us with a perfect translation that would never need revision and why the work of textual scholars is necessary. Carroll addressed that question when he wrote: God’s leaving this kind of labor to be performed by man has had a tremendous effect in bringing about a study of the Bible that would never have been undertaken if to every nation there had been handed down, in God’s own handwriting, a text of the Bible in their own language. If it had