Supporting the Trinity Doctrine? – The Trinity Doctrine

Part 01 – The Trinity Doctrine
Part 02 – Who is the Most High God?
Part 03 – Who and what is Jesus?
Part 04 – The true meaning of ‘God’
Part 05 – Supporting the Trinity
Part 06 – Pre-Nicene writings
Part 07 – Development of the Trinity
Part 08 – Why challenge the Trinity
Part 09 – Trinity Doctrine conclusion
Part 10 – An Apostasy
Part 11 – 100 indisputable proof verses
Part 12 – What is your confession?
Part 13 – The Roman Catholic faith
Part 14 – Trinity Doctrine resources

This page is dedicated to the scriptures that people use when supporting the Trinity Doctrine. We look at why they are used to support this doctrine and test their hypothesis to see if they stand the test of scrutiny.

Each scripture is listed with a link to its own page showing biblical evidence as to why these are not supporting the Trinity Doctrine.


Does 1 John 5:20 call Jesus the true God?

We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

Read why this verse does not teach the Trinity


Is Jesus called God in 1 Timothy 3:16 (KJV)?

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

Read why this verse does not teach the Trinity


Did Thomas call Jesus, his God in John 20:28 (KJV)?

And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.

Read why this verse does not teach the Trinity


Because YHWH calls himself “I am”  in Exodus 3:13-14, did Jesus claim to be Yahweh when he said “I am” in John 18:5-6?

5 “Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “I am he,” Jesus said. (And Judas the traitor was standing there with them.)
6 When Jesus said, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.

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1 John 5:7 lists the three so-called persons of the Trinity and says they are one. Does this prove the Trinity?

For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

Read why this verse does not teach the Trinity


Does Isaiah 9:6 prove the Trinity because it calls Jesus the mighty God?

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”‘

Read why this verse does not teach the Trinity


Does the baptismal formula in Matthew 28:19 prove the Trinity Doctrine?
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Read why this verse does not teach the Trinity →


John 1:1 says the Word was God. Does that mean that Jesus is God because he is the Word?

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Read why this verse does not teach the Trinity


John 1:18 calls Jesus ‘the begotten God”. Does this prove that Jesus is God and provide support for the Trinity Doctrine?

“No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.”

Read why this verse does not teach the Trinity


Is Jesus called the Alpha and Omega in Revelation 1:8, thus making him God?

8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Read why this verse does not teach the Trinity


Colossians 2:9-10 says that Christ is the fullness of the Deity. Does this make Jesus God?

9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,
10 and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.

Read why this verse does not teach the Trinity


Philippians 2:6 says he existed in the form of God. Is this scriptural proof that Jesus is God?
who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,.

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Does Mark 12:36 support the Trinity Doctrine because of the usage of ‘Lord’?

David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit, declared: “`The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.”

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Did Jesus claim to be God in John 10:33 according to an accusation made by some Jews?

“We are not stoning you for any of these,” replied the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”

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Was Jesus inferring he was God in John 5:18-19 when the Jews said he was making himself equal with God ?

18 For this reason the Jews tried all the harder to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
19 Jesus gave them this answer: “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.

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Does the word “us” in Genesis 1:26 mean that God consists of plural persons as the Trinity Doctrine teaches?

Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness

Read why this verse does not teach the Trinity →


Did Jesus infer that he was God in John 10:30 when he said he was one with the Father?

“I and the Father are one”.

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Hebrews 1:6 states that Jesus is worshipped by angels. Does that make him God?

And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God’s angels worship him.”

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Does Hebrews 1:8 state that God called Jesus, God?

But concerning the Son, “Your throne O God is forever and ever.”

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Does Isaiah 48:11 support of the Trinity Doctrine because God does not give his glory to another?

For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.

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Does Titus 3:4-6 support the Trinity Doctrine because God is called our saviour?

4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared,
5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,
6 whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior,

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Does Revelation 1:8 & Revelation 1:17-18 prove that God is a Trinity because of the term First and Last?

Revelation 1:8
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.
&
Revelation 1:17-18
And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last.
“I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen.

Read why these verses do not teach the Trinity →


Does Deuteronomy 6:4 and Genesis 2:24 prove that God is a Trinity because ‘one’ means ‘unity’?

Deuteronomy 6:4
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.
&
Genesis 2:24
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Read why these verses do not teach the Trinity →


Does Isaiah 45:23 & Philippians 2:10-11 read together prove that Jesus is God because we will bow to God?

Isaiah 45:23
By myself I have sworn,  my mouth has uttered in all integrity  a word that will not be revoked:
Before me every knee will bow; by me every tongue will swear.
&
Philippians 2:10-11
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Read why these verses do not teach the Trinity →


Does 1 Peter 2:6-8 & Isaiah 8:12-15 read together prove that Jesus is God because he is the stumbling stone?

1 Peter 2: 6-8
6 For in Scripture it says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”
7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”
8 and,“A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.”

&
Isaiah 8:12-15
11 For Jehovah spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
12 Say ye not, A conspiracy, concerning all whereof this people shall say, A conspiracy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be in dread thereof .
13 Jehovah of hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 And many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

Read why these verses do not teach the Trinity →


Discussion

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  • #777531
    2besee
    Participant
    t8 wrote:

    I wonder if Paul and Titus repented of
    that?
    Titus 1:9: He must hold firmly to the
    trustworthy message as it has been
    taught, so that he can encourage others
    by sound doctrine and refute those who
    oppose it. [unquote]

    Do you think that verse in Titus is in regards to refuting other Christians, or refuting those who are not Christian, though? (I do not have time to look at the verse in context atm.

    Shepherd of Hermas (1st or 2nd century church)

    Parts of “The building of the Church”.

    (the gathering of the branches)..

    “And they who gave them in withered and undecayed, these also were near to them; for they were hypocrites, and introducers of strange doctrines, and subverters of the servants Of God, especially of those who had sinned, not allowing them to repent, but persuading them by foolish doctrines. These, accordingly, have a hope of repentance.
    And you see that many of them also have repented since I spake to them, and they will still repent. But all who will not repent have lost their lives; and as many of them as repented became good, and their dwelling was appointed within the first walls; and some of them ascended even into the tower. You see, then,” he said, “that repentance involves life to sinners, but non-repentance death.

    And they who gave in their branches green and cracked were always faithful and good, though emulous of each other about the foremost places, and about fame: now all these are foolish, in indulging in such a rivalry. Yet they also, being naturally good, on hearing my commandments, purified themselves, and soon repented. Their dwelling, accordingly, was in the tower.
    But if any one relapse into strife, he will be cast out of the tower, and will lose his life.
    Life is the possession of all who keep the commandments of the Lord; but in the commandments there is no rivalry in regard to the first places, or glory of any kind, but in regard to patience and personal humility.
    Among such persons, then, is the life of the Lord, but amongst the quarrelsome and transgressors, death.”

    #777532
    2besee
    Participant

    Hi .
    Just one more thing to say.

    Jesus to the Church in Ephesus (Revelations 2)

    “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear evil men but have tested those who call themselves apostles but are not, and found them to be false; I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name’s sake, and you have not grown weary.

    But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.
    Remember then from what you have fallen, repent and do the works you did at first.
    If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place”.

    #777533
    Admin
    Keymaster

    DavidL said: “(like the rest of your anti-trinity belief)…”.

    BTW, I also have an anti-Easter Bunny belief too. lol.

    #777534
    Admin
    Keymaster

    BB, yes we should not abandon our first love. But that doesn’t mean that we do not refute false doctrine. Paul and the other Apostles preached and guarded the message as it was handed down. If we neglect that, then we give license to all manner of false doctrine with no opposition, thereby leaving people to not see why some doctrines are wrong.

    Scripture says that we are to steer clear of useless arguments like genealogies. But some think this means we should not refute or debate. It doesn’t say that. It says USELESS arguments. Thus, the foundation of the Church and that which Jesus said was eternal life is not useless. What I preach and also what I refute is of utmost importance. I care not for debates on genealogies and perhaps even pre-trib or post-trib, because they are not worth arguing about. We can have a strong faith in God and love of the truth without knowing the full answer on these things.

    But when it comes to who is the one true God and who and what Jesus is, well that is essential. Thus I will refute all who teach false doctrine regarding that.

    #777535
    Admin
    Keymaster

    It is those who preach false doctrine that are being defined.
    Paul, Peter, and John warned us a number of times that many would come and deceive many, even from among us. They also singled out certain people among us and warned us about their doctrine.

    1 Timothy 4:1-2,6
    “The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron…If you point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, brought up in the truths of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed”.

    2 Peter 2:1-3
    “but there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them – bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping”.

    2 Timothy 2:15-18
    “Timothy, my son, I give you this instruction in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by following them you may fight the good fight, holding on to the faith and a good conscience. Some have rejected these and so have shipwrecked their faith. Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme”

    1 Timothy 1:18-20
    “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly. Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have wandered away from the truth…”.

    Acts 17:11
    “Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true”.

    2 Timothy 4:3-4
    “For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths”.

    1 John 4:1
    “dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world”.

    Acts 20:29-31
    “‘I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them. So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears”.

    #777536
    2besee
    Participant

    t8,
    True. But notice what it says in those verses you quoted.
    “………..some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons…………”
    “………….(reg: false prophets)…Many will follow their shameful ways……….”
    “…………“For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths”.

    So people make the choice to follow false teachers and false prophets in the first place by listening to them.

    Is it not better to have nothing to do with false teachers and prophets? I mean, why hear them, why argue?
    Maybe I’m wrong, but I have tried…… and as Jesus said in the letter to the church in Ephesus…. what is the toll in the end? The only way back is to repent, and return to what we had at first.
    It brings much peace.

    #777537
    Admin
    Keymaster

    In many circumstances it is better to ignore them. But this site is managed by myself and it is my duty to refute anyone who comes here and preaches false doctrine or traditions of men. That is the actual purpose of the site too. To test all things to see if they are so.

    Hence why we are strong on scripture. All that other stuff about Jesus being the first love and helping the lost is still true. But it is also important to refute those who preach and teach false doctrine.

    #777538
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    to david;

    Col 2:6 So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him,
    Col 2:7 rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
    Col 2:8 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.
    Col 2:9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,
    Col 2:10 and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority.
    Col 2:11 In him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision done by Christ,
    Col 2:12 having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.
    In practice i do not look at only one scripture that could be twisted in meaning on its own;
    but looking in context what Paul says is now clear in what he means ,;;he is talking about our bond to Christ and how it is connecting us to God his father ;and so what he means when he says ;the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, ;;; that Christ his the way God will save men and so send his son as a man in the flesh of weakness to save those that believe in him ,in a other way, THE WAY OF GOD IS NOT OBLIGATION BY POWER ;BUT IS DEPLOYING LOVE AND KINDNESS TO ATTRACT LOVE IN RETURN,;this is the fullness of God ‘s way in bodily form;

    for your info I was raised Catholic and yet never believed in the trinity ;even when I was 8 years old ;it did not made sense then and still do not today ,and not in scriptures

    #777539
    DavidL
    Participant

    Thanks for reply terraricca…I can only think the reason you did not accept the Trinity as a boy is that you probably were taught it as a religious doctrine rather than receiving it straight from the Scriptures…as I know Catholics hold their doctrine and traditions as having higher authority than the Scriptures..

    What you share from Colossians is good but I don’t see that you have really connected it to the issue of this debate…which really hinges on the understanding of John 1:1 – whether the Son of God is a completely separate Being to the Father and not to be considered as one with God – or whether Christ, although separate from the Father as the Son, is in fact presented to us in Scripture as equal to God..

    Is He *God* as the Apostle John declares (and Scripture, including Colossians 2:9, confirms)….?

    or is He just *a god* as t8 teaches on this site…?

    #777540
    DavidL
    Participant

    your flowery quote about lemonade glosses over the fact that you’re actually peddling an adopted argument against the trinity that goes back to the heretic Arius..

    What you deceptively offer us here (as something palatable) – is actually poison…!

    #777541
    Admin
    Keymaster

    Jesus said, “eternal life is this, to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent”.

    Scripture takes precedent over your opinions. Especially the words of Jesus Christ.

    Further, hecklers draw the crowds. Thank you.

    #777542
    Admin
    Keymaster

    @ DavidL
    Unless you forgot what I said or didn’t read what I said, I have taught all along that theos in John 1:1c has no article neither definite or indefinite. Thus I have taught that it is qualtitaive in meaning and is not identifying him as God. I have even pointed out that Trinitarian scholars admit this too.

    So either your words are bearing false witness, or you forgot what I said, or didn’t read what I said when I answered you.

    I encourage you to do better so these false accusations are not made in future.

    Regards.

    #777543
    Admin
    Keymaster

    @ DavidL
    Being equal in anyway to anything is the same as saying you are not that thing.

    Being equal to God means you are not God. A team that is equal to the All Blacks means they are not the All Blacks by reason of them being equal. If females are equal to males, then would that make females male? If Jesus is equal to God, then he is not God. Simple obvious stuff.

    This Trinity Doctrine causes men to say the silliest things and to deny word meanings even from their own language.

    We all need to beware of those who lead people away from simplicity in Christ. He is the son of God, the messiah, and the Lord. Amen. The gates of Hell cannot prevail against this. We will not swap the truth of who Jesus is and who the one true God is for a metaphysical gospel that is more at home in Greek philosophy than scripture.

    #777544
    DavidL
    Participant

    Please give your understanding of how you think this verse should read…or say what translation you agree with..
    If I have misrepresented your rendering of John 1:1 it is only because of your confused arguments..

    #777545
    DavidL
    Participant

    Im right aren’t I t8 – this is the very verse Arius used to promote his 4th century monotheistic doctrine…? (John 17:3) and you’ve just hijacked his same false argument against the Trinity…!

    #777546
    Admin
    Keymaster

    John 1:1c is using theos qualitatively.

    Use this simple example to understand what qualitative means. When Jesus called Judas a devil, he did not use the definite article and hence translators do not capitalize devil to Devil in English. To your English mind even you understand the difference between Devil and devil. Thus there is one Devil, but there are many devils and there is no contradiction is there. Yet Jesus was not even calling Judas a devil. He was saying Judas had a devilish nature that he was like the Devil in character. Hence why Jesus said in John 8:44:
    “You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires.”

    Here are some quotes from scholars that might help you.

    The word for “god” in Greek is QEOS. In John 1:1 the last occurrence of QEOS is called “a predicate noun” or, “a predicate nominative”. Such a noun tells us something about the subject, instead of telling what the subject is doing. This use of QEOS has reference to the subject, the Word, and does not have the article preceding it; it is anarthrous. This indicates that it is not definite. That is to say, it does not tell what position or office or rank the subject (the Word) occupies. The verb HN “was” follows the predicate noun QEOS; this is another factor in identifying QEOS here as qualitative. This discloses the quality or character of the Word. -Philip Harner, Journal of Biblical Literature

    When the writers of the New Testament speak of God they mean the God and Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ. When they speak of Jesus Christ, they do not speak of him, nor think of him as God. He is God’s Christ, God’s Son, God’s Wisdom, God’s Word. Even the prologue to St. John {John 1:1-18} which comes nearest to the Nicene Doctrine, must be read in the light of the pronounced subordinationism of the Gospel as a whole; and the Prologue is less explicit in Greek with the anarthrous theos [the word “god” at John 1:1c without the article] than it appears in English… -John Martin Creed

    As mentioned in the Note on 1c, the Prologue’s “The Word was God” offers a difficulty because there is no article before theos. Does this imply that “god” means less when predicated of the Word than it does when used as a name for the Father? Once again the reader must divest himself of a post-Nicene understanding of the vocabulary involved. -Raymond E. Brown, The Anchor Bible

    #777547
    Admin
    Keymaster

    @ DavidL
    In short, your understanding of John 1:1c would be like saying that Judas was the Devil in John 6:70 even though there is no definite article, while I am arguing that Jesus was classifying him as being like the Devil with a devilish nature, meaning he was of his father the devil.

    So, the Word was God as you see it implies that the Word was THE God. But there is no indefinite article here, while it is everywhere else in John 1:1. Most ignore that, but it was written that way for a reason. Thus the Word was with THE God, and was like God too. Thus equal to God if you like, but not God.

    So just as Judas was of his father the Devil, Jesus is of his Father who is God. And he was with him and now he is at the right-hand of him meaning he is back in the glory that he had with him before the world began.

    John 8:42 (English NIV)
    Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me.

    John 20:17 (English-NIV)
    Jesus said, Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them,
    `I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.

    #777548
    Admin
    Keymaster

    I know you will reject anything I have said in the above 2 posts, so I will beat you to the punch. Your misunderstanding of John 1:1 renders the rest of scripture regarding who God is as obsolete. Thus you should question your understanding of it because it needs to be in harmony with the fact that Jesus explicitly states that there is one true God the Father, and that this one true God is our God and he sent Jesus to us to reconcile us to this one true God.

    Your incorrect version of John 1:1 should not nullify the rest of scripture even in your own eyes.

    #777549
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    terraricca says:
    November 18, 2013 at 12:57 am
    to david
    you may see in scriptures what they do not say ,and that’s fine ,but this is not my burden it becomes yours to bare ,but it does not matter what you say ,the trinity is not preached in scriptures at no time in the history of it ,but the truth can be understood though out the teachings from the entire scriptures ,because God never changes ,men do , and your understanding in the trinity comes from men not from the scriptures ;for it is your own interpretation ,and so you have no scriptures ,but t8 presentation is based on the scriptures ,and as shown you all or almost all of them and yes John 1;1 c ,is the way to see it and their are good reasons for it ,while you have none ,
    i have given you my understanding of Col 2;9 and see for yourself what you come up to change it to your personal view ,even that you approve my understanding but yet kill it by your personal view ,and so you do with all that comes to you ,this shows that you are not submit to God but to men ,so until you figure this one out you will be bond to men and dead , so free yourself and live

    #777550
    DavidL
    Participant

    If my version of John 1:1 is incorrect, then what is the correct version – how should it read…???

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