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“The RSV appears to omit a very wonderful verse at Acts 8:37. After Philip preached from Isaiah 53 to the Ethiopian eunuch and he had asked for baptism, the familiar version reads, “And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.” One might wonder how the translators of the RSV could have omitted such a logical and beautiful confession? The fact is that the RSV has not omitted anything, for the only early support for these words is in the Old Latin manuscripts. They first appear in Greek in a sixth-or seventh-century manuscript, which contains the book of Acts in Greek and Latin. An earlier Greek and Latin manuscript known as Codex Bezae [fifth or sixth century] does not have these words; and they are wanting in all of the earliest Greek texts. This confession is therefore clearly no part of the original text of Acts, but was first written in the margin of a Latin translation and found its way later from Latin into the Greek manuscripts.”
Many of the Texts used against One-God Jesus Name believers to support the Catholic Gnostic polytheistic pagan Trinity are not even real Scriptures at all. This is amazing that Saints and young Ministers are not warned about this deception and better taught and equipped to counter Gnostic apocryphal lies. How many have left our ranks or avoided the Apostolic Church altogether because of these false Scriptures? False doctrines based upon false Scriptures have deceived many. Many have been pre-programmed and very effectively brain washed by non-inspired man-made creeds, traditions, and apocryphal writings. Too many follow a very dangerous herd mentality. Many seem to be content with the same old status quo of ignorance and merely parroting and repeating what their headquarters or some one else says, but never bothers to do any real in-depth personal research for themselves.
Some things we need to consider. Is Jesus Lord? What does this mean? This is also written to counter the so-called “Da Vinci Code” Gnostic heresy.
Is Jesus just a messenger boy of the gods, a go between or a mere human? If so, then Christianity has some real contradictory and Theological problems. Jesus has to be more than a subservient messenger of a higher or coequal God or else we have a plural multi- person Godhead much like the gods of the pagan myths or pantheons. If Jesus was just a mere man that was born over two-thousand years ago, that would rob Him of his deity, true Messiah-ship and even make him born in sin or an illegitimate child. What power would be in the Name or Blood of such a mere sinful human?
Such a man would need a Savoir himself! If Jesus was just a mere human then he would not have the power to turn water into wine, walk on water, rebuke or stop a major storm nor raise the dead. Nor would He have the authority to forgive sins (Exodus 32:31-32, 1 Kings 8:34, 2 Chronicles 7:14, Jeremiah 31:34, Matthew 9:2-6, Mark 2:5-12, 1 John 1:7-9)! If Jesus was only a human he would be limited by time and space and could only be in one place at a time, however, Jesus clearly informs us that he is omnipresent (see John 3:13 and Matthew 18:20). Genetically the human body of Jesus was like any normal human. However, what indwelt in this body was the very Creator. Christ was without any sin! (See Hebrews 4:15) His Father was not Joseph. The Spirit of God or the Holy Ghost caused Mary to conceive! (See Matthew 1:18, Luke 1:34-35)
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