To the editor:

At Holy Trinity Lutheran confirmation I got an RSV Bible. Its translators didn’t hate the King James Version but were objective scholars. Those trinitarians translated I John 5:7 the non-trinitarian way it was first written.

I have learned that mainstream doctrines often contradict the Bible. Many people don’t agree but it is true.

A letter (Sept. 10) didn’t prove I John 5:7 (KJV Bible) is correct or was first deleted by a “careless scribe,” then later restored. My comment about other Bibles not having that false verse referred to modern English translations.

Someone criticized me for quoting Isaiah 14:12 (RSV) with “Day Star” in it instead of the KJV’s “Lucifer.” My KJV Bible lists 500 obsolete words it uses, including Lucifer, and admits that Day Star is correct.

Father and Son are divine beings in the God family. Jesus didn’t say he is God but called the Father the “only true god” (supreme being). The correct ending for John 1:1 is “…a divine being” (not “…God”).

Four times in Rev. 3:12 Jesus called the Father “my God.” He told Mary Magdalene, “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.” (John 20:17)

Paul didn’t say God is composed of three equal entities. He said we have “one God, the Father” and “one Lord, Jesus Christ.” (I Cor. 8:5-6)

Compare Acts 5:3-4 to Joel 2:27-29. The Holy Spirit is not God but God’s Spirit (Acts 5:9).

Jesus told us to become one, “as my Father and I are one.” That is about harmony, not merging multiple personalities into one human being.

Michael Servetus was burned to death in 1553 for rejecting trinitarianism. The fanatics who killed him were not true Christians.

Robert Kohtala

Chassell