Originally posted by josephw
The Bible clearly teaches that God is the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. That is how God has revealed Himself. When one says that the idea that God is not three in one, then one fails to understand the Godhead.
1John 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's breathtaking that you have the balls to post in this forum anymore, given how many times
you've been proven explicitly wrong.
The quotation (out of context, what a shock!) reads, in Greek, starting at verse 6 and ending with
verse 8:
Outos estin o elthon di udatos kai aimatos, Iesous CHristos, ouk en to udati monon
This one is the one having come by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not in/by the water only
all en to udati kai en to aimati kai to pneuma estin to marturoun,
but in/by the water and in/by the blood; and the spirit is the one giving tesitmony,
oti to pneuma edtin e aletheia. Oti treis eisin oi marturountes,
because the spirit is the truth. Because there are three giving testimony,
to pneuma kai to uder kai to aima, kai oit treis eis to en eisin.
the spirit and the water and the blood, and the three for the one [testimony] are.
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In short, it is saying that the three (referred to earlier as God, Son and Spirit -- again, notice
the distinction you like to ignore between God and Son) are of one mind in their varying ways
of testifying to the Truth (a favorite topic of the author of the Johannine letters).
The part you quoted (again, a shocker!) that 'these three are one' is a
fabrication from
the
late manuscripts for the Latin Vulgate and are not original to the letter. But, you seem to
like to inherit a lot of dogmas from the Roman Church, so why not inherit the mistranslations
they espoused back in the dark ages (this passage has been removed since the Roman Church
embraced Biblical scholarship rather than idolizing an ancient translation like you do).
I'm sure this information will do little or nothing to curb your hubris or humble you into recognizing
how little of the Bible, and consequently Christianity, you actually understand, but I figured I
might prevent a few other people from being swayed by your passionate ignorance along the
way.
Nemesio