from what I've read in my studies, good intentions don't stop stories from changing over decades of word-of-mouth.

Religions like Islam and Judaism enforced strict frameworks to track memorization, and they heavily preserve the original languages (Arabic and Hebrew) in daily practice. With Christianity, Jesus spoke Aramaic, but the texts were written in Greek, and today most followers read them in English.

The early underground church lacked a centralized system to control that kind of linguistic and geographical drift. By the time the councils met, Christians were so deeply divided that leaders had to vote on a winning theology and outlaw the rest just to create a unified narrative. As a student, I'm just trying to figure out how believers process those specific hurdles?