What could be more obvious than a statement that
God is Jesus, Jesus is God,
that Jesus was God?
We know that from John 1:1,
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God."
So what do we do with 1 Timothy 3:16?
Wait till you get your little lesson.
You're gonna learn a little bit of Greek here.
First, let's start with the King James.
Can you read this with me?
"And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness:
God was manifest in the flesh..."
Wow!
That's a powerful statement.
First, "no controversy."
It's clear.
"The mystery of godliness."
What is this mystery?
God became a human being.
Wow.
That's God in the flesh.
Let's take a look at, oh, let's see, the NIV.
"Beyond all question, the mystery of godliness is great:
He appeared in a body..."
Now if you note the note that I put underneath it,
I didn't say "He," I said "Who?"
Because you know the Greek that they used
doesn't even say "He," it says "Who."
"Who appeared in a body."
That doesn't even make sense.
Why did they pick it?
We'll talk about that in a minute.
It says "He" in the NIV, not "Who,"
but I told you "Who," because the NIV lied
about what the Greek really says.
Quick Greek lesson!
Don't worry, you'll learn this easily.
This is the word "God" in Greek.
That is pronounced, "THAY-oss."
First is a "TH," then an "E,"
then an "O," then an "S."
And whether it looks like that funny little squiggly thing,
or that "C," those are both "S"s,
depending upon what Greek literature you're reading.
So that's how the word "God" was abbreviated in Greek Bibles.
See the thing on the bottom?
Theta - Sigma?
That's two letters stuck together.
They take out the middle, put the first and
the last together, and you know
all that's the abbreviation for "God."
What's the difference between "God" and "He"
(actually "Who") in Greek?
The difference is the letter "Theta" (TH)
vs. "Omicron" (O).
Do you see the difference between that "Theta"
and that "Omicron"?
It's a single brush stroke.
You see what it looks like?
"Who," which," or "what" on the right side,
"OS" here.
"THEOS" there.
One little brush stroke.
You can guess which one the vast majority of manuscripts
in all history have said, right?
"God."
There's a name for that line, when it happens in Hebrew.
You know what it's called?
A "tittle."
Look at those two letters in Hebrew.
That's a "Resh," and that's a "Daleth."
That's an "R" and a "D."
You see that itty bitty little thing on the edge?
That's a "tittle," the smallest brush stroke
that changes one letter into another letter.
Jesus said, "For verily I say unto you..."
You can say it with me,
"...Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle
shall in no wise pass from the law,
till all be fulfilled."
That's Matthew 5:18.
But one single missing tittle changed "God" into "who."
The overwhelming testimony of history shows
1 Timothy 3:16 says "God."
But look at all the popular Bibles that are missing "Jesus as God"
in that single verse, because of
one little brush stroke.
Take a glance.
36 Bibles.
Now for my book I only researched 40 of them.
That's 36 of the 40.
I went through the whole list.
I cut out some, because I wanted the book to be smaller.
I even had to do only 257 verses,
because anything more and the book
would have been huge!
So, the Deity of Christ.
Jesus is
1.
the Truth.
2.
sinless.
and 3 of course,
God the Son.
But in these modern Bibles, in these specific verses,
the Deity kind of gets wiped out.
"Jesus lied" (John 7:8) "Jesus sinned" (Matthew 5:22)
and is Jesus "Not God?"
"I don't know!"
(1 Timothy 3:16) - this is what popular Bibles say.
No one can deny it.
With as little as a single missing brush stroke,
you can seriously affect Christian doctrine.
Don't let any college teacher or anybody else fool you.
But wait.
Aren't there other verses that say Jesus told the truth,
Jesus didn't sin, and Jesus is certainly God?
Yeah.
But if every word on any particular doctrine
were removed out of the Bible, would you go buy that Bible?
Of course not.
Would you trust a Bible with whole sections removed?
That's a real Bible.
That's one of the two Thomas Jefferson used
to make his Jeffersonian Bible where he cut out all the miracles.
The Devil doesn't have to remove every word on a doctrine...
he just needs enough for you to doubt what God said.