The earliest text of 1 Timothy 3:16 reads “who,” a Christ-centered confession later clarified to “God” in many manuscripts.
The Debate Over 1 Timothy 3:16: A Textual Analysis
Can the New Testament Documents Be Trusted?
The New Testament text is anchored by early papyri and major codices, yielding a stable, public, and verifiable text closely matching the first-century autographs.
THE BATTLE FOR THE BIBLE: The Struggle for a More Accurate Text of the New Testament
When you open your Bible today, can you be confident that the words you are reading are, in fact, the very corresponding English words that were written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter, Paul, James, and Jude nearly 2,000 years ago? Confident, you say? Just how confident are you? Are you confident because of what you know or what you hear?
NTTC 1 TIMOTHY 3:16: “God was manifest in the flesh” or “He was manifested in the flesh”?
This solved textual issue caused many problems in the nineteenth century, and really with the King James Version Onlyists, it still does today. The Bible scholars entered the fray because they thought the textual scholars were undermining their doctrinal position that God became man.
