The concept of the trinity is nowhere to be found in God's inspired word the Bible. The dogma was formulated 300 years after the Bible was written. The formulation was refined under two Roman emperors with the urging of Catholic bishops.
I would disagree with you. . . .
Notice also these verses:
1 John 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
Scooter:
The words at 1 John 5:7 that I bolded in red are fabrications found only in the King James Bible. Those extra words are referred to as the
Comma Johanneum. Thousands of existing Trinitarian Bibles have avoided those words because they do not appear in the oldest known manuscripts of the Christian Greek Scriptures and did not show up until the late 4th century C.E. Below are quotations from two sources that state that fact.
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1 John 5:7 – Interpolation
1 John 5:7—"RSV scholars say that this verse is an interpolation, a concoction, a fabrication."
Among the
thousands of careful English translations available, the
King James translation is the only one which includes this ending to 1 John 5:7—"For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one.
It is abundantly clear that the King James translation made a serious mistake here, for
this passage is found in no original Greek manuscript before the sixteenth century. Its inclusion probably resulted from a scribe inadvertently incorporating a marginal comment (gloss) into the text as he copied the manuscript we find a similar incorporation in the ancient Samarkand Qur'ān :"
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"The Enigmatic Interpolation in 1 John 5:7-8: A Scholarly Examination
Contemporary scholars widely acknowledge the
inauthentic nature of a specific passage in 1 John 5:7-8, which
has been excluded from numerous Bible translations such as the American Standard Version, An American Translation, English Revised Version, Moffatt, New English Bible, Phillips, Rotherham, Revised Standard Version, Schonfield, Wade, Wand, Weymouth, and others (Metzger & Ehrman, 2005). ). This
contentious passage, following the phrase “For there are three witness bearers,” reads: “in heaven, the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. [Verse 8] And there are three witness bearers on earth.”
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"The
spurious passage in question, often referred to as the
Comma Johanneum,
first emerged in the Latin Vulgate, a translation of the Bible in the late fourth century (Kelly, 1995). The interpolation was likely introduced to bolster the doctrine of the Trinity, a core Christian belief that posits the Father, the Son (the Word), and the Holy Spirit as one divine entity. However, the Comma Johanneum is notably absent from the earliest Greek manuscripts, as well as from the works of early Greek Church Fathers (Metzger & Ehrman, 2005).
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"Through
rigorous examination of ancient manuscripts and translations, as well as
comparisons with the writings of early Church Fathers, textual criticism
has demonstrated that the Comma Johanneum is a later interpolation and not an authentic component of the original biblical text (Metzger & Ehrman, 2005). This has led to its exclusion from many modern Bible translations, reflecting a commitment to accurately represent the inspired Word of God."
Explore the ongoing debate surrounding the Comma Johanneum, a controversial passage in 1 John 5:7-8, and its impact on Bible translations and textual criticism. Learn about key figures and arguments in this centuries-long discussion.
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QUESTION #5 to SCOOTER: According to the two independent sources quoted above, the Comma Johanneum does not belong in the Bible because it is nowhere to be found in the earliest existing manuscripts of the original biblical text.
TRUE or FALSE?
