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Originally Posted by Pastor Keith
as one.
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I think for some this is old news, but I enjoyed discovering it and having a notable scholar point out this undermines a traditional cardinal doctrine of traditional Evangelicalism, the Trinity.
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I don't know that
1 John 5:7 supports the doctrine of the trinity.
It could be taken as a support of the doctrine of oneness.
Jehovah's Witnesses do not accept
1 John 5:7 because it supports the deity of Christ. Modernists would also leave
1 John 5:7 out because it supports the deity of Christ. The late Gordon Magee believed that
1 John 5:7 was not really "Scripture" because, in his mind, it supported the doctrine of the trinity. He also believed
Matthew 28:19 as it currently appears in our Bibles was a corruption of an earlier text.
It always bothers me to see folks "delete" something out of what we have accepted as "Scripture" for years. I think of King Jehoiakim and his pen knife and fire.
I think even most Oneness folks will admit that the word "one" in English can mean a numerical one as in we each have only "one" stomach or heaart, or it can mean "united" as in husband and wife being "one." We would say there is only "one" true church but we would also say that all the members are "one." We say that there is only "one" true God but we also say that our God is "one."
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