For the record!

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And I quote:
     "Our oldest manuscripts do not have "in heaven: the
Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these THREE ARE
ONE. And there are three testifying on Earth."  Early in
the 16th century an EDITOR translated these words from
LATIN manuscripts and INSERTED them into his Greek New
Testament..." *1
     It goes on to say how that even Martin Luther rejected
these when he conpiled his translation "EVEN THOUGH THEY
TAUGHT THE TRINITY!"
     The point is this and yes it deserves all caps!  THE
WORD OF GOD IS INFALLIBLE BUT NOT A TRANSLATION.
The NIV is a "translation" and you are going to have to
establish criteria for those who write these "inspired
translation" since they 
all disagree.
     If you have a mistake in the Word of God it is not the
Word but if you have a mistake in a translation that in no
way means that ALL of it is wrong!  Think about it!  How
many times have I myself misrepresented a Scripture?  Does
this mean that since I am fallible that I speak NO TRUTH? 
If I say that God told me something and it turns out to be
wrong does that make God wrong?  Can't you say to me
"Brother, you must have gotten that wrong." and as I
pointed out earlier, I can get the revelation 100%
right and still get the "interpretation" or the
"implications" wrong
without affecting the infallibility of the revelation one
little bit.
     When you succome to this it has survived stuff, so
have alot of false religions and many are older than
Christianity.  As to people who have died to "preserve" the
Bible there are those who have died for the other religions
too.
     It is this simple.  If 1 John 5:7 is true you and I
worship in vain 
as it describes the "three are one" of the Trinity!  The
word to study in this verse is the word "three." 
     The KJV is the BEST translation since the MISTAKES are
obvious and well documented as well as being relatively few
and 
do not essentially change the meaning from the original.

*1: footnotes from the "BECK" New Testament.
     
Timothy (a book is a book and the Word is the Word)
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