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1 | is Jesus God ?and how can you prove it? | Isaiah | Tara | 86114 | ||
Hi Leonardo, Jehovah's Witnesses understand that many modern translations of this verse used Greek manuscripts that had been altered to conform or support the doctrine that the son of God, Jesus, is also God himself. Note that the Sinaiticus discovered in 1859, by Tischendorf is the oldest known complete copy of the Christian Greek Scriptures found in a monastery at the base of Mount Sinai. It is known as the Codex Sinaiticus and was probably produced about 50 years before Jerome completed the Latin Vulgatewas among the oldest original-language manuscripts, it not only revealed that the Greek Scriptures had remained essentially unchanged but also helped scholars to uncover errors that had crept into later manuscripts. For example, the reference to Jesus at 1 Timothy 3:16 in Sinaiticus reads: “He was made manifest in the flesh.” In place of “he,” the majority of then-known manuscripts showed an abbreviation for “God,” made by a small alteration of the Greek word for “he.” However, Sinaiticus was made many years before any Greek manuscript reading “God.” Thus, it revealed that there had been a later corruption of the text, evidently introduced to support the Trinity doctrine. Tara |
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2 | is Jesus God ?and how can you prove it? | Isaiah | Morant61 | 86136 | ||
Greetings Tara! You are absolutely correct about both 1 John 5:7-8 and 1 Tim. 3:16. 1 John 5:7-8 was definitly added by Erasmus. The only Greek manuscripts which contain this reading are: 1) Num. 61 - a 16th century manuscript. 2) Num. 88 - a 12th century manuscript. 3) Num. 629 - a 14th or 15th century manuscript. 4) Num. 635 - an 11th century manuscript (in the margin). It is interesting to note though, that the early church fathers, since the reading is spurious, never based the doctrine of the Trinity upon this verse. The passage in 1 Tim. 3:16 is much the same. There isn't any uncial manuscript support for the reading 'God' until about the 9th century. And, no patristic writer refers to the reading until about the 4th century. However, the doctrine of the Trinity is not false simply because of a few spurious readings upon which the doctrine was never based anyway! :-) Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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