Wow, maybe just go with the Holy Spirit all the way now?

Here's a rather comical (more than usual) post from James White where he discovers that one of his devil manuscripts actually has a reading that the Holy Spirit gave God's own from the beginning. But first, he has to call anybody who sees the whole and pure Word of God in the traditional text "King James Only people" (a strawman that he has been disabused of probably thousands of times, but if he or his followers give it up they are left with nothing, which is why fallacious rhetoric is still alive today); then he has to compare people who read the King James Version with Muslims; then he calls us "wild-eyed"... All preliminary to announcing that the most idiotic rendering in a modern version based on the devil's and the Vatican's Alexandrian manuscripts (the famous 'he who' in 1 Tim. 3:16 found in White's preferred NASB) is actually not even IN the devil manuscript in question! Imagine that! They can't even get their corrupting of the Word of God from their devil manuscripts straight. Well...time for a yet "new" "better" edition!

Hmm... Once again... Let me see: Westcott and Hort...Holy Spirit... Westcott and Hort...Holy Spirit... ..... Yeah, I think I'll go with the Holy Spirit, pilgrims.

Stick with the traditional text and the best translations based on it. In English that would be the AV1611. Expand your vocabulary if you have to.

(Note: It occurs to me that White may be signaling with this post a move towards the whole and pure Word of God found in the traditional text. I mean, one can see it like that a little bit, perhaps. Yet I have to conclude that he shows too much of his old vanity and pride in mocking of God's Word and God's elect who only can discern God's whole and pure Word to be making any kind of movement like that. Same old unregenerate fool...)

Moving on from the subject of scholars and fools, let's get serious here for a moment: Look at these verses from 1 John:

4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

These are verses the devil and his followers don't like. They tell God's own how to discern the anti-Christian forces. To de-ball, so to speak, these verses the devil doesn't necessarily have to attack them directly (though that is hardly beneath him). He can do something else here. Notice these verses don't explicitly say "Jesus Christ is God come in the flesh..." The devil certainly sees that, and he says to himself, "That can be exploited." But to do it there is a pesky verse back in 1 Timothy that he has to get rid of. 1 Timothy 3:16 specifically:

16 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.

Notice where it says God was manifest in the flesh... Yes, that, with the 1 John verses cited, gives away that Jesus Christ is God manifest in the flesh. So the devil has to specifically get rid of that one reference to God in that verse.

So what do we find in the modern versions based on the devil's and the Vatican's Alexandrian manuscripts? Well, no surprise, look here:

NIV - "He appeared in a body"
NASB - "He who was revealed in the flesh"
ESV - "He was manifested in the flesh"
etc., etc., etc...

And what, again, do we see in the traditional text and a faithful translation based on the traditional text like the Authorized Version, 1611, otherwise known as the King James Version?

"God was manifest in the flesh"

A lone and faithful witness.

Note 2: To return to White's post: he and all the other champions of the devil's and Vatican's manuscripts have been embarassed by the above renderings in their [per]versions of God's Word, so they are now saying: "Well, with ultra-violet research and such we can nowwww say that we believe that verse should read 'God.' So...to all you traditional text people, that one is now off the table! You can't use it against us or our [per]versions anymore!" Right, because that one concession from you devil-priests also takes care of all the other devil-defiled parts of your perversions? Sorry, pilgrims... Maybe just walk into the light of the whole and pure Word of God. You'll have to humble yourselves first.