There is a particular kind of ignorance that parades itself as insight, especially when it comes wrapped in conspiracy theories about Bible corruption. Our resident One Pentecostal asserts that “Catholicism altered the Bible in the 4th century to fit their false council teachings,” and that the only sources left for the Reformers were the Latin Vulgate and Codex Sinaiticus, allegedly both corrupted in the same century. The level of confusion in that claim is staggering. There's no way that it's accidental.
First, there is no evidence, none, of wholesale biblical alteration in the 4th century to fit Trinitarian doctrine. The Council of Nicaea dealt with theological debates based on Scripture, not by rewriting it. The idea that bishops at Nicaea took out pens and edited the New Testament is just pure historical fiction to the point of delusion.
Second, the notion that the Reformers were stuck with “Catholic translations” like the Latin Vulgate or Codex Sinaiticus is equally absurd. Codex Sinaiticus was not even discovered until the 19th century, over 300 years after the Reformation. As for the Vulgate, it was a Latin translation, not an original manuscript, and the Reformers deliberately bypassed it. Erasmus compiled the Greek New Testament from Byzantine manuscripts, not from the Vulgate. The Reformers knew full well what they were doing. They were not duped, ignorant or stupid. They were reclaiming the Scriptures from the distortions of Rome.
Ironically, those who peddle this sort of nonsense often cling to the King James Version of the bible, completely unaware that it was translated from the very manuscript line preserved through the same historical church they accuse of corruption. In other words, they reject the Catholic Church while trusting the product of its manuscript preservation.
The problem here is not a lack of information, it is a refusal to engage with facts. Mixing half-truths with wild speculation does not make one a defender of truth, it simply reveals a mind that has confused suspicion for scholarship.
The most profitable thing about Servant1's presence here is that before he showed up, I just thought that Oneness Pentecostals were more or less the same as regular Pentecostals except that they reject doctrines related to the Trinity. He's taught me that they aren't even Christians at all! They're far more irrational than the Mormon and at least as heretical as any "Christian" cult you care to name, which is information worth having. Servant1 is putting on a master class on how to try and sell rotten fruit!