(March 11, 2015 at 8:44 am)watchamadoodle Wrote: Later scribes could not distinguish the editorial comments from the text and unintentionally created this apparently clumsy forgery? In other words it was margin notes instead of a deliberate forgery?
Scholars think that did happen. Not all "interpolations" are deliberate forgeries. Sometimes margin notes would be carried into later copies by careless scribes.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist