failed assignment?

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Andy Gossett wrote:
> 
> Bro. Jim Cape wrote
> 
> >   How can a person say that someone has failed something and declare
> >their statement not to be true when, in all truth I have studied
> >and I have read where some translators have literally lost their
> >voice and some have lost their mind, permanently.
> 
> I reply:
> 
> If you will notice carefully, you inserted a word in this second statement
> that you did not include in the first.  That word is "some".  Your first
> post left the impression that all men that had translated after the KJV had
> lost their mind, which IS not true.  That is all I meant.  I didn't mean to
> call you a liar, and if I did leave that impression, I apologize.
> 
> My point about the Old English and KJV still stands though.  There is no
> scriptural basis for insisting that old english is divine, and there is no
> reason to think that the KJV is the end all of translations.  I have said
> numerous times that it is the best translation that we have, but it is by no
> means perfect.  The italicized words that are supposedly added for
> clarification (and are not part of the original scripture) at times take
> away from the oneness message that we preach.  There are other instances
> where the words translated in 1611 meant one thing then, but now mean
> something else.
> 
> Again, sorry for any offense.
> 
> Humbly submitted,
> 
> Andy (still contending for the word and NOT a translation) Gossett


  Brother Andy, please let me add, I agree with you that the KJV is not perfect,
and I also agree that it is our best translation. Also in it's defence, let me 
insert that I encourage everyone to read it's history. Learn of the men that 
did the translating and compare their background to some of the men that sat on 
other translation, and revision committiees. 
  Also perhaps there are others, but I don't know of any if they are,  but I 
believe the KJV text is the only version that is common that does not have 
a copy write on it. 

     Roger Evans