[RnMomof7]

Actually I have read it in many places..LONG before the internet..It is noted in my New King James , my Old King James and in my NIV...

It is accepted scholarship..you may read what you like..but I learned it was an addition to the text 25 years ago

[editor-surveyor]

" accepted scholarship"

Well known Blasphemy, accepted only by blasphemers.

[xzins]

but I learned it was an addition to the text 25 years ago

Actually, you learned 25 years ago that it was an addition to the text.

Rn, I don't intend to be overly difficult, but I, with others, have been in textual criticism classes in conjunction with studying Greek.

The methodology used to determine what is included and what is not included is based on assumption. They are decent assumptions, but if one ever loses sight of them being assumptions, then they begin to affirm things as facts that simply aren't facts.

If the earliest manuscripts include the KJV version of 1 Jn 5:7-8, what would that mean to you?