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Originally Posted by freesundayschoollessons
Have you considered approaching this from the standpoint why the AV adds the verses as well? You should consider both directions. Intentionally adding and omitting Scripture are both wrong.
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Arguing that verses have been added to the AV is absurd. The best example of this laughable charge against the AV is Romans 13:9:
Romans 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
The phrase "thou shalt not bear false witness" is missing from the Critical Text that forms the basis of most modern Bible translations. Scholars say that it was
added to the text. I ask: what is more reasonable to believe? That a scribe
added a phrase that was at once self-incriminating, or that one of the Bible corruptors (like Origen, etc)
removed the phrase that directly indicted them?
1Jo 5:7 is not "added" to Scripture. In fact, removing the phrase in question demolishes the grammar of the text so badly that it is obvious it belongs there. There is early-church evidence that the passage was as it reads in our perfect KJV Bible. Nobody need question it except those helping do the work of undermining the authority of the Bible and peoples' faith in it.