<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: neutral88</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Here is my back-up UT1 this is a letter written by King James himself, It has the sources documented and such, in case you wish to research my findings:

From The Wisest Fool in Christendom by William McElwee published by Harcourt, Brace and Co., we read a letter King James wrote to Somerset. It was over 2000 words long. Here is a small portion of it:

I leave out of this reckoning your long creeping back and withdrawing yourself from lying in my chamber, notwithstanding my many hundred times earnestly soliciting you to the contrary, accounting that but a point of unkindness. [Page 216]
When King James wanted something for one of his "male favorites," all means were lawful to him. In 1607 Carr was the king's pet. In Jacobean Pageant on page 179 we read:

Young Carr was mounting the ladder and not yet scornful of the base means by which he did ascend. Progressively the vista of honours opened before him. In the closing days of 1607 he was appointed a Gentleman of the Bedchamber and knighted. Early in 1608 he received the King's portrait mounted in gold and diamonds. In January 1609 King James taking advantage of a scribe's ommission of a phrase from a legal document, deprived Sir Walter Raleigh of his estate of Sherborne in Dorset and gave it to his young Scot. Feeling ran high against his act. Lady Raleigh went on her knees before the King and begged to be spared this much out of her husband's ruin, but James, muttering 'I maun have the land, I maun have it for Carr,' refused her. In 1610 Carr benefited from another man's ruin and received the forfeited Scottish estates of Lord Maxwell.
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William McElwee?? What did he know? Was he there? If he was,then so what? Its still his viewpoint, and could be viewed entirely differently from someone else (like in two witnesses to an accident who can have completely different accounts!).

Again, this was all written by a man, so why should I believe any of it? If we go by the pretext that you can't believe the translations of the Bible, because it was altered by a man to suit his purposes, then neither can we believe any other document. I guess the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution just became nullified! [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif[/img]

And CC, the Bible is not our failsafe, and no denomination can claim total assimilation. The Bible is our companion, to be accompanied by prayer, and worship, and fellowship. If you leave any of those out of your spiritual life, you're missing something.