You're not welcome. Try addressing my point, please.
Are you willing to admit that for 618 years there were no changes to God's Word --- as I demonstrated --- despite your allegation that it has been changed over time?
(I'm really interested in your answer to this, FB; but if you're going to attempt to dance your way out of it, please don't bother. It's an insult to my intelligence.)
The passage in question was apparently not in the original Greek. This demonstrates my point and not yours. The fact that the men who wrote the King James version copied Wycliff fairly accurately at least for this
single passage and the fact that the King James version have apparently been copied accurately since then is totally irrelevant. There are no orginal texts of the New Testament and there is nothing like original text of the old around anywhere. Again I thank you for demonstrating my point for me by showing that what men have believed to be God's word has changed with time even for the New Testament.
From the webpage I linked on the
Johannine Comma, with some emphasis added.
These extra words are
generally absent from the Greek manuscripts. In fact, they only appear in the text of four late medieval manuscripts. They seem to have originated as a marginal note added
to certain Latin manuscripts during the middle ages, which was eventually incorporated into the text of most of the later Vulgate manuscripts. In the Clementine edition of the Vulgate the verses were printed thus:
Quoniam tres sunt, qui testimonium dant [in caelo: Pater, Verbum, et Spiritus Sanctus: et hi tres unum sunt. 8 Et tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in terra:] spiritus, et aqua, et sanguis: et hi tres unum sunt.
From the Vulgate, then, it seems that the Comma was translated into Greek and inserted into some printed editions of the Greek text, and in a handful of late Greek manuscripts.
All scholars consider it to be spurious, and it is not included in modern critical editions of the Greek text, or in the English versions based upon them. For example, the English Standard Version reads:
