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To: Tennessee Nana; Olog-hai; count-your-change; webboy45
1 John 5:7
And there are three who give testimony in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. And these three are one.
Thank you TN --> that is a very precise statement from scripture.

CYC, Olog, webboy --> this excerpt from scripture does indicate a Trinity, correct?
31 posted on 08/14/2010 10:52:35 AM PDT by Cronos (Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. "Allah": Satan's current status)
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To: Cronos
“CYC, Olog, webboy —> this excerpt from scripture does indicate a Trinity, correct?”

Not correct. This is not part of Scripture. It's a later addition by someone other than John.

“That these words are spurious and have no right to stand in the New Testament is certain in the light of the following considerations.

(A) EXTERNAL EVIDENCE. (1) The passage is absent from every known Greek manuscript except eight, and these contain the passage in what appears to be a translation from a late recension of the Latin Vulgate.”

A TEXTUAL COMMENTARY ON THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT second ed. by Bruce M. Metzger page 647.

Metzger then list the eight manuscripts and further evidence that the passage is not part of John's writing.

How the passage might have entered the Latin Vulgate is unstated.

40 posted on 08/14/2010 12:57:09 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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