It really comes down to faith. Do you trust Gods promise to preserve his words for us today. If so, where are they? Where are his perfect, holy words without error?
Correct. If God has not preserved His word in
the majority of Hebrew and Greek manuscripts, then the doctrine of the divine preservation of Scripture fails. But in fact, He has.
Those who were capable and qualified to collate the extant manuscripts (to a large degree) established the FACT that
the traditional Hebrew and Greek texts did indeed represent
the majority of manuscripts. The traditional Hebrew text is
the Masoretic Text which was published in the printed Rabbinic Bible of Jacob ben Hayyim (16th century) called Mikraot Gedolot in Hebrew. The traditional Greek text was published in the printed
Textus Receptus of Stephanus (16th century). Both of these were used by the King James translators (17th century). Therefore the KJB became the standard English Bible for over 400 years (again a confirmation of the preservation of Scripture). All conservative scholars, theologians, and pastors regarded this Bible as "the Word of God".
On the other hand, less than dozen corrupted manuscripts -- Aleph, A, B, C, D, E and a few papyri -- became
the Minority Text. This was favored by almost all the unbelieving textual scholars and critics, simply because
Aleph (Codex Sinaiticus) and
B (Codex Vaticanus) happened to be the oldest. But in this case, oldest did NOT mean best. It meant "worst". This was clearly established by outstanding textual scholars such as Burgon and Scrivener (who were ignored because they spoke the truth).
Satan was behind the corruption of modern English translations since 1881, and he succeeded to a very large degree. Through deception, the Christian world was persuaded to believe that modern versions were superior to the King James Bible. But Christ had already warned us of deceivers and liars, so there is no excuse.