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"God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act. Does he promise and not fulfill?" ~Bible (Numbers 23:19)

Where does the doctrine of christianity come from? From the Bible. If the bible is corrupted, does this mean that the doctrines are corrupted too?

In other words, if the most important verses about basic doctrine were found to be tampered, then the doctrine will be invalidated as well.

Here is the touchstone on Christian Doctrine:

The Comma Johanneum is a comma (a short clause) contained in most translations of the First Epistle of John published from 1522 until the latter part of the nineteenth century, owing to the widespread use of the third edition of the Textus Receptus (TR) as the sole source for translation. In translations containing the clause, such as the King James Version, 1 John 5:7-8 reads as follows (with the Comma in square braces):

5:7 "For there are three that bear record [in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
5:8 And there are three that bear witness in earth], the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one."

(Note the original version of Epistle of John: 5:7~8 : "For there are three that bear record, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.")


With Comma added, resulting passage is an explicit reference to the Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and for this reason some Christians are resistant to the elimination of the Comma from modern Biblical translations. Nonetheless, nearly all recent translations have removed this clause, as it does not appear in older copies of the Epistle and it is not present in the passage as quoted by any of the early Church Fathers, who would have had plenty of reason to quote it in their Trinitarian debates (for example, with the Arians), had it existed then. Most Churches now agree that the theology contained in the Comma is true, but that the Comma is not an original part of the Epistle of John.

Oh, so if Comma is not original part of Epistle of John, then where does the Doctrine of Trinity come from? Answer: It comes from "wishful thinking" of Christians.

"God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act. Does he promise and not fulfill?" ~Bible (Numbers 23:19)

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