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You made the claim that:The fact is Scripture has been copied down by men, and translated by men and frankly biased men. I can only interpret that to mean that the Greek original translations are biased. Then what value are they if they're not correct? This position is simply to reduce the sacred and inspired writings down to standard Church writings. This isn't what the Fathers thought at all, all before the 8th century.

You made the claim:we go by the greek originals . So what??? Fifty years ago I might have been impressed. Today with all the search tools and various Greek lexicons all over the Internet, one can read how an actual Greek piece of scripture read. If you want to look at a different Greek text, it's there. To be honest, there isn't much difference between the various text. What's normally argued here is content and doctrine; not whether a particular passage is accurately translated.

What really bothers the Church is the capability of people being able to look up the original writings for themselves. The fall back plan is to say, "Father Jones felt blah-blah-blah about Passage X. So don't go interpreting it for yourself. Your mind can't handle it. All translations are wrong except the one Father Jones uses." As soon as people understand that Father Jones isn't any different than Sam Smith down the street and he uses the same version as what everyone else uses, the jig will be up.

And, at least my version isn't written by bias gentlemen.