HIGHER-FIRE digest 382 (WoF)

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Once upon a time S. Hall wrote
>
>I have the Word of God and my brother it is perfect, in the KJV, I trust
>that the Lord, 
>"who is God", was able to have delivered to us, "His Word."
>When the Lord baptized me with His Spirit, He showed me the KJV was His
>Word, and the most important thing for me to do was get the Word in me.


I reply:

I'm sorry, but I simply do not agree.  You said that God showed you that,
and that is fine.  He didn't show me!  

I have always believed (and still do) that the King James translation is
just that, a translation.  Nothing more.  It was translated by fallible men
of sometimes dubious origin and much of its scholarship was based upon
earlier translations, notably Coverdale, 1535; Thomas Matthew, 1537; the
Great Bible, 1539; the Geneva Bible, 1560; and the Bishops Bible, 1568.
These all immediately preceded and fed into the translation we now refer to
as the King James Version.  It was translated by Trinitarians without the
Holy Ghost who had never heard of Jesus name baptism, etc....

What I'm saying Brother Hall, and please understand me, is that if your
totally comfortable with the KJV, fine.  I'm not.  The inspired word of God
was written in Hebrew and Greek.  I can't read it.  I have to depend upon
men.  Whether I read the KJV, NIV, RSV, or whether I dig through Strongs,
Thayers, Gesenius, Youngs, or who ever.  They are still men.

The only way I know how to find out what the Scriptures  truly say is to
consider multiple sources and allow God to lead me.

Respectfully submitted,

Andy (Let the word of God be true and EVERY man a liar) Gossett