By BART ERHMAN - YOUTUBE
Added: Wed, 18 May 2011 08:54:56 UTC

This is a very nice – and witty – little vignette by Bart Ehrman. The central Christian dogma of the Trinity, it turns out, occurs in only one place in the bible, in the first epistle of John, 5:7-8. But the relevant verses were missing from the Greek text. It was somehow added in the later Latin text, and it became inflated into an important piece of dogma. So important that, when it was noticed that the earlier Greek text lacked it, the Latin was re-translated back into Greek to make it look authentic! It is this forged Greek version that is the basis for the translations that we now have, for example the King James version and the doctrine of the Trinity has become central to Christianity. This is just one example. Bart Ehrman has written a whole book, Forged, on similar forgeries in the bible.

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