[Godzilla]

Even if the translator is competent and unbiased, mistakes can be made. Thus the need for the qualifier.

Yet we can go back to the Greek/Hebrew manuscripts to evaluate WHAT was being translated. There is no mystical, magical gobbly gook as with mormonism when it comes to translation. Yet smith had the 'power of God' to make his translation and yet there are over 4000 changes that have been made to it over the years - all without being able to go back to the gold plates for clarification.

[Alan2]

Yet we can go back to the Greek/Hebrew manuscripts to evaluate WHAT was being translated.

The Greek/Hebrew manuscripts are still copies of copies of copies. They are not the originals written by the Apostles.