Trust through verification

One of my all time favorite movies is The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston. I remember watching it as a kid many times. My so has recently been learning a lot of Old Testament Bible stories and he soaks them up like a sponge. I have so much fun listening to him tell me about them like he is teaching me for the first time. On a couple occasions he has stumped me with questions and facts I did not know. We always looked them up to confirm them together. Well, I come home from work yesterday to see The Ten Commandments DVD in front of the TV. I was so excited because I had been wanting to watch it with my son. I wanted to share something from my childhood with him. As we were watching it, he announced very matter of factly, that Moses' wife was black. He went on to be very descriptive of just how black she was. Now, this concerned me a bit because I had never heard that before. I disagreed with him but he was adamant that Moses' wife was indeed black. Now, I am not above learning something from my son and I am not altogether too concerned about what color Moses' wife was but, when it comes to Bible scripture, I want to know the facts. I asked my son where he heard this and he said that his Grandma had told him. This raised a couple red flags because she and I don't always agree theologically but his Grandma is pretty good with her Bible stories, so I just had to know. I started researching it online and found that in the King James translations, which has been found to be full of translational mistakes, it refers to Moses being married to an "Ethiopian." Thus the belief that he was married to a black woman. Now, on the face, that would be a logical assumption but, the Greeks used the word Ethiopia to represent the land of Cush. Cush is even described as far back as Genesis and, by the description would be in southern Iraq. Southern Iraq is a long way from Ethiopia and has an entirely different race of people. The New International Version and many other versions, describe Moses' wife as "a Cushite." The color of Moses' wife is not so much my point here. My point is, when it comes to your salvation and the validity of the Bible, never, never, never take someones word for it. Study, read and confirm what someone tells you about the Bible. You know what they say about opinions.......everybody has one and they all........well, you know. I repeat; trust through verification.