"Dumbed down teachings." Good way to describe it. I think a lot was lost during some of the retranslations. It would be interesting to read a copy of the Bible from its original sources.

You have been implying serial translations where errors get introduced like copies of copies.
That's not what we have. We have parallel translations all from the original Greek, each by an independent group of experts. So rather than accumulating errors we have canceling errors because on any issue you can pick up and study dozens of different expert opinions about what the original Greek and Hebrew texts said.

For example, compare all the translations at one glance at this site: http://biblehub.com/john/1-12.htm