@NEETzsche @caekislove How would an edit propagate universally with no central authority? If someone edits Scripture in Alexandria, for example, how do they get that change to make it all the way to Armenia?

You can't, especially not in the time frame of the earliest New Testament manuscripts. It's not possible.

The Old Testament is a different story, because history gets very fuzzy once you go that far back. As I said, I bridge the gap there by inferring the Old Testament from the New.