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Trinity proof-text manuscript corruptions

Notes on 10 Trinity Doctrine Proof-Text Manuscript Corruptions. [downloaded] Duration 33:11.

Ground rules

  1. Variants are possibilities, they are not facts.
  2. Cherry picking the variant that suits your needs doesn't amount to factual evidence. Your personal preference doesn't validate them.
  3. Personal rationalizations do not change a possible variant into an authentic fact.
  4. Unless it can be absolutely proven that one of the variants is authentic, or that one of them is certainly false, all claims are unreliable claims and not factual evidence.

Text and commentary

  1. Matthew 24:36, "But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son,[Some manuscripts omit nor the Son] but the Father only." The manuscript omission is not very strong. The omission is favored by trinitarians because omniscience is a divine attribute. For Jesus not to have omniscience is a big problem. The bigger problem is that the Holy Spirit doesn't know the day or hour either, and you can't make up any excuses that the Holy Spirit was a human being like Jesus and had limited powers as a human. So, the triune God does not know the day or hour, only the Father. There is a parallel verse in Mark.
  2. John 3:13, "No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. [Some manuscripts add who is in heaven]" Trinitarians use this verse to claim that Jesus is omnipresent.
  3. 1 Corinthians 10:9, "We must not put Christ [Some manuscripts the Lord] to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents." Trinitarians use the reference to "Christ" as proof that the God of the OT was Christ. However, they choose to ignore the variant which references "the Lord" instead of Christ.
  4. Jude 1:5, "Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe." Some manuscripts use "the Lord" instead of Jesus.
  5. Acts 20:28, "Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God,[Some (very important) manuscripts of the Lord] which he obtained with his own blood.[Or with the blood of his Own]"
  6. John 1:18, "No one has ever seen God; the only [Greek, monogenes] God,[Or the only One, who is God; some manuscripts the only Son] who is at the Father's side,[Greek in the bosom of the Father] he has made him known."
  7. 1 Timothy 3:16, "Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He[Greek Who; some manuscripts God; other Which] was manifested in the flesh, vindicated [Or vindicated in spirit] by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory." Some translations use "God" instead of "He" or "Who".
  8. 1 John 5:7. The verse no longer appears in modern translations since it doesn't appear in any early Greek manuscripts. The evidence is overwhelming that John did not write this.
  9. Zechariah 12:10, "...when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him..." There is a manuscript variant which reads, "when they look on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him" which makes more sense. It parallels John 19:37, ""They shall look on him whom they have pierced."
  10. 2 Peter 1:1, "To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:" There is a translation problem with this verse. However, the Codex Sinaiticus reads, "by the righteousness of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ:"