Disputed Passages
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Of all the disputed passages in the Bible 1John 5:7 has the poorest of any of them. The Greek MSS evidence for this verse is virtually non-existent prior to the 10th century. No Greek text contains this verse in the body of the text until 1520. There are some 300 Greek manuscripts of 1John and of these 300 manuscripts, the longer reading appears in only eight very late manuscripts none of which date prior to the tenth century AD and this is in MSS 221. Of these eight, four have it only as a marginal note and it does not appear as part of the body of the text. It did not actually become part of the body of the text until it was added in MSS 61 in 1520. The other four are one from the tenth century, one from the twelfth century, one from the fourteenth century and one from the fifteenth century.
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I believe that the Holy Spirit is all we have for truth. I read scripture, but I also know the heart of God. I don't speak in letter, but by given words by the Holy Spirit. Is this Spirit not promised to us to divide the truth rightly? Have we allowed ourselves to believe the Spirit of the Almighty God has limitations? I think not! Constant prayer, and doing the will of God is all we have to do. Studying to show ourselves approved isn't through only reading! Study the Spirit and see what is revealed to you. It will give you a second nature that is not of this world. Jesus is the word of God. Does he not speak to us, and do we not speak to Him? We are commanded to love God with all our hearts, and to love each other, but we take the Bible, and we dissect, and dissect, and dissect, and become wise in our own minds, and try to find conspiracy theories in the scriptures, and try to say this means this, and this means that, and the kingdom becomes far from view.. This is what we are wasting our time doing? This is why Christ gave His life for us? Seriously, why can't we simply just pray and fast, worship God together, and have feasts, where we invite the poor. We dissect the Bible to make it more comfortable to live by, by twisting the truth around to satisfy the hunger of a perverse culture. Sorry, but becoming a Christian doesn't make life easy, it does make it better though, and if we really wanted to change the world we could, but we are too busy trying to be the best scripture quotes. I mean seriously, there is a hurting world out there and our only concern is making sure we are snappy script quoters????? If you are going to quote scripture at me, make sure we have time to read the entire Bible, because one script without all word is nothing, and all script without one word is nothing. I love you all, and may God's peace be with you.
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Mat 11:28 "Come to me, all of you who are weary and loaded down with burdens, and I will give you rest.
Mat 11:29 Place my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble, and you will find rest for your souls,
Mat 11:30 because my yoke is pleasant, and my burden is light."
There are multiple, two at least, interpretations of the above quote which for me seesm self-explanatory ... perhaps some scholars have voted on this teaching's meaning also.
Mat 11:29 Place my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble, and you will find rest for your souls,
Mat 11:30 because my yoke is pleasant, and my burden is light."
There are multiple, two at least, interpretations of the above quote which for me seesm self-explanatory ... perhaps some scholars have voted on this teaching's meaning also.
Yes and no. There are extant mss that date back as early as the first century. The problem is that these exist only in fragmentary form. The earliest Greek mss that we have that contains most the books of the NT is the Vaticanus from the fourth century. It is however incomplete. It does not contain 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon or Revelation. We have lectionaries that predate the Vaticanus by almost 200 years.