Cynthian, welcome to the Cellar! It's nice to have intelligent life forms join in the festivities.
Question- On the first day of school you decide your students must write a poem with specific parameters to pass your class. Wouldn't you make it clear to all the students rather than tell one student to pass the word?
Surely you've played the old game of tell the first person and have them whisper it to the second and so on down the line to the last person. It never comes out right.
Well, over thousands of "whisperings" not to mention language changes and cleric interpretations, what we have is a bunch of conflicting stories. Look how many different bibles we have today.
You do an admirable job of defending Joydriven's chain of logic but the problem is her basic premis is flawed.
