Wednesday, March 18, 2020

CIRA International manuscript dilemma; where is the "great commission" verse?

In answer to the video "Only Jesus is Sinless According to the Quran | Islamic Original Sin Dilemma"

As a final note, the Church father Eusebius (260-340), Bishop of Caesarea, quotes many bible verses in his "Ecclesiastical History" among them the great commission passage of Matt28:19 quoted more than once and never appears like in modern bibles but rather:
“Go ye and make disciples of all the nations in my name” (Book III,History,Chap5,Sec2&Oration in Praise of Emperor Constantine,Chap16,Sec8).
He was involved in debates with the Arians on whether Jesus was God or His creation and if the manuscripts he had in front of him read "in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" he would have used that argument in his favor, no matter how weak the argument is in favor of the trinity doctrine, and never quoted it as simply "in my name". This observation is often discarded as mere argument from silence by Trinitarian apologists, but it certainly is a strong and compelling one simply because Eusebius would certainly have known about it had it been a fact and would therefore under the circumstances certainly have made mention of it. His grossly biased work, he wrote it when he had access to the Theological Library of Caesarea and made use of many ecclesiastical monuments and documents, acts of the martyrs, letters, extracts from earlier Christian writings, lists of bishops, and similar sources, often quoting the originals at great length so that his work contains materials not elsewhere preserved.

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