Catholics go one step further. Both the translation and the tradition of interpreting the translation is divinely inspired. Protestants sometimes vaguely point to something like that but most realize that if they follow the logic train of sacred tradition they should be Catholic or Orthodox.

"This translation was divinely inspired."

"Oh, dope, so you're gonna sell all your stuff and give the money to the poor?"

"Okay, listen..."

Textual critics are fairly confident that a fair amount of the texts of the New Testament were reliably copied until we get to the first extant manuscripts, and for the stuff that is very obviously messed up, they have a decent set of analytical tools that help them retroject the likeliest original wording. Not perfect, but decent.

That's not how translation works though. The modern translations come directly from the original Greek and Aramaic.

The texts travelled all over the East and into Europe. So we can compare them. They were very clearly written in their time.

That's a novel right there baby

As in, changing the history to match their text? 🙃

But then you could just go back and witness the events that the book tries to describe, so the book itself becomes irrelevant outside of just archaeology phd work.

Imagining the idea of a deeply religious person going back in time over and over again, going further and further back looking for Adam and Eve and finding very modern-looking humans going all the way back 200,000 years...

Nah, they'd probably give up after going back around 50,000 years and accidentally infecting the entire human population with the common cold, nearly killing off the species.