[Brother Tim]

Some time back I copied a statement made by Matthew Verschuur that very succinctly expressed the topic of this thread, while George's initial post lays it out excellently in detail. Here is that paragraph:

In short, they were the right men at the right time in the right place that knew the right things so as to rightly select the text of the Word which matched exactly to the long lost autographs as was attested to only by copies, and were able to rightly translate it, sense for sense, without deviation, without addition or subtraction, and without any substitution of the sense, so that what we have today is the Word of God, now set forth to be the Word of God for the world, to be presented by the myriad, yet in one standard, agreeing, central and universal form.