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1.2.2.5 1 John 5:7

The only verses in the whole Bible that explicitly ties God, Jesus, and the Holy
Spirit in one "Triune" being is the verse of 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."

This is the type of clear, decisive, and to-the-point verse I have been asking
for. However, as I would later find out, this verse is now universally
recognized as being a later "insertion" of the Church and all recent versions
of the Bible, such as the Revised Standard Version the New Revised Standard
Version, the New American Standard Bible, the New English Bible, the Phillips
Modern English Bible ...etc. have all unceremoniously expunged this verse
from their pages. Why is this? The scripture translator Benjamin Wilson gives
the following explanation for this action in his "Emphatic Diaglott." Mr. Wilson
says:
"This text concerning the heavenly witness is not contained in any Greek
manuscript which was written earlier than the fifteenth century. It is not cited
by any of the ecclesiastical writers; not by any of early Latin fathers even
when the subjects upon which they treated would naturally have lead them to
appeal to it's authority. It is therefore evidently spurious."

Others, such as the late Dr. Herbert W. Armstrong argued that this verse was
added to the Latin Vulgate edition of the Bible during the heat of the
controversy between Rome, Arius, and God's people. Whatever the reason,
this verse is now universally recognized as an insertion and discarded. Since
the Bible contains no verses validating a "Trinity" therefore, centuries after
the departure of Jesus, God chose to inspire someone to insert this verse in
order to clarify the true nature of God as being a "Trinity." Notice how
mankind was being inspired as to how to "clarify" the Bible centuries after the
departure of Jesus (pbuh). People continued to put words in the mouths of
Jesus, his disciples, and even God himself with no reservations whatsoever.

They were being "inspired" (see chapter two).

If these people were being "inspired" by God, I wondered, then why did they
need to put these words into other people's mouths (in our example, in the
mouth of John). Why did they not just openly say "God inspired me and I will
add a chapter to the Bible in my name"? Also, why did God need to wait till
after the departure of Jesus to "inspire" his "true" nature? Why not let Jesus
(pbuh) say it himself?
The great luminary of Western literature, Mr. Edward Gibbon, explains the
reason for the discardal of this verse from the pages of the Bible with the
following words:
"Of all the manuscripts now extant, above fourscore in number, some of
which are more than 1200 years old, the orthodox copies of the Vatican, of
the Complutensian editors, of Robert Stephens are becoming invisible; and
the two manuscripts of Dublin and Berlin are unworthy to form an
exception...In the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Bibles were corrected
by LanFrank, Archbishop of Canterbury, and by Nicholas, a cardinal and
librarian of the Roman church, secundum Ortodoxam fidem. Notwithstanding
these corrections, the passage is still wanting in twenty-five Latin
manuscripts, the oldest and fairest; two qualities seldom united, except in
manuscripts....The three witnesses have been established in our Greek
Testaments by the prudence of Erasmus; the honest bigotry of the
Complutensian editors; the typographical fraud, or error, of Robert Stephens
in the placing of a crotchet and the deliberate falsehood, or strange
misapprehension, of Theodore Beza."

"Decline and fall of the Roman Empire," IV, Gibbon, p. 418.

Edward Gibbon was defended in his findings by his contemporary, the brilliant
British scholar Richard Porson who also proceeded to publish devastatingly
conclusive proof that the verse of 1 John 5:7 was only first inserted by the
Church into the Bible in the year 400C.E.(Secrets of Mount Sinai, James
Bentley, pp. 30-33).
Regarding Porson's most devastating proof, Mr. Gibbon later said
"His structures are founded in argument, enriched with learning, and
enlivened with wit, and his adversary neither deserves nor finds any quarter
at his hands. The evidence of the three heavenly witnesses would now be
rejected in any court of justice; but prejudice is blind, authority is deaf, and
our vulgar Bibles will ever be polluted by this spurious text."

To which Mr. Bentley responds:

"In fact, they are not. No modern Bible now contains the interpolation."

Mr. Bentley, however, is mistaken. Indeed, just as Mr. Gibbon had predicted,
the simple fact that the most learned scholars of Christianity now
unanimously recognize this verse to be a later interpolation of the Church has
not prevented the preservation of this fabricated text in our modern Bibles. To
this day, the Bible in the hands of the majority of Christians, the "King James"
Bible, still unhesitantly includes this verse as the "inspired" word of God
without so much as a footnote to inform the reader that all scholars of
Christianity of note unanimously recognize it as a later fabrication.
Peake's Commentary on the Bible says
"The famous interpolation after 'three witnesses' is not printed even in RSVn,
and rightly. It cites the heavenly testimony of the Father, the logos, and the
Holy Spirit, but is never used in the early Trinitarian controversies. No
respectable Greek MS contains it. Appearing first in a late 4th-cent. Latin text,
it entered the Vulgate and finally the NT of Erasmus."

It was only the horrors of the great inquisitions which held back Sir Isaac
Newton from openly revealing these facts to all:
"In all the vehement universal and lasting controversy about the Trinity in
Jerome's time and both before and long enough after it, the text of the 'three
in heaven' was never once thought of. It is now in everybody's mouth and
accounted the main text for the business and would assuredly have been so
too with them, had it been in their books Let them make good sense of it
who are able. For my part I can make none. If it be said that we are not to
determine what is scripture and what not by our private judgments, I confess
it in places not controverted, but in disputed places I love to take up with
what I can best understand. It is the temper of the hot and superstitious part
of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that
reason to like best what they understand least. Such men may use the
Apostle John as they please, but I have that honor for him as to believe that
he wrote good sense and therefore take that to be his which is the best"

Jesus, Prophet of Islam, Muhammad Ata' Ur-Rahim, p. 156

According to Newton, this verse first appeared for in the third edition of

Erasmus's (1466-1536) New Testament.

For all of the above reasons, we find that when thirty two biblical scholars
backed by fifty cooperating Christian denominations got together to compile
the Revised Standard Version of the Bible based upon the most ancient
Biblical manuscripts available to them today, they made some very extensive
changes. Among these changes was the unceremonious discardal of the
verse of 1 John 5:7 as the fabricated insertion that it is. For more on the
compilation of the RSV Bible, please read the preface of any modern copy of
that Bible.
Such comparatively unimportant matters as the description of Jesus (pbuh)
riding an ass (or was it a "colt", or was it an "ass and a colt"? see point 42 in
the table of section 2.2) into Jerusalem are spoken about in great details
since they are the fulfillment of a prophesy. For instance, in Mark 11:2-10 we
read:
"And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you: and as
soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat;
loose him, and bring [him]. And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say
ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither.
And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a
place where two ways met; and they loose him And certain of them that
stood there said unto them, What do ye, loosing the colt? And they said unto
them even as Jesus had commanded: and they let them go And they brought
the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on him; and he sat upon him. And
many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches off the
trees, and strawed [them] in the way And they that went before, and they
that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed [is] he that cometh in the
name of the Lord: Blessed [be] the kingdom of our father David, that cometh
in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest."

Also see Luke 19:30-38 which has a similar detailed description of this
occurrence. On the other hand, the Bible is completely free of any description
of the "Trinity" which is supposedly a description of the very nature of the one
who rode this ass, who is claimed to be the only son of God, and who
allegedly died for the sins of all of mankind. I found myself asking the
question: If every aspect of Christian faith is described in such detail such
that even the description of this ass is so vividly depicted for us, then why is
the same not true for the description of the "Trinity"? Sadly, however, it is a
question for which there is no logical answer.