Shouldn’t the more relevant question be “why did Christ come?” Because scripture tells us clearly “how” he came.
To understand
why Christ came is a way more important question IMO.
Can you answer that for me...?
As regards 1 John 5:7-9...
“For there are three witness bearers: 8 the spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.
9 If we accept the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. Because this is the witness God gives, the witness that he has given about his Son.”
The first rendering you gave is spurious, but the second is accurate.
There is no trinity identified in 1 John 5:7-8.
And if we accept the teaching of three gods, (God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit is not one God) then we have accepted the witness of men, not the witness of God in his word where these titles are completely missing in connection with Jesus and the holy spirit.
Jesus never once claimed to be God, nor did he ever say that he was equal to his God and Father. You will not find trinitarian teaching in anything he said.....it is all implied in ambiguous scripture, rendered by men to support a grossly blasphemous error.
The holy spirit is never called “God” either. It is called “God’s spirit” because it is the power that emanates from God to accomplish his will. He can also give this power to others.
When Jesus said in John 16:7-8...(as rendered in the
Authorized Version)
“If I go not away, the Comforter [pa·raʹkle·tos] will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world . . . when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth.”
It uses a masculine pronoun [
e·keiʹnos] in reference to the Spirit even though [
pneuʹma, spirit] is neuter in gender, therefore John 15:26 says...
"But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:" (KJV) The "Comforter" (helper) is masculine gender and the pronouns associated with it will be masculine...it is not indicating personhood.
Yes, the ones who have God's spirit (genuinely) will know the truth from the errors proffered by men. But we also know that satan has the ability to "blind the minds" (2 Corinthian 4:3-4) of those who don't really love the truth, but who are intent on supporting their cherished falsehoods in spite of what the scriptures say. (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12)
How do we know what 'camp' we are in? When Jesus comes to separate the "sheep from the goats" there is no ambiguity about the destiny of each group. (Matthew 25:31-34; 41, 46) All mankind will be judged to be in one group or the other. (Matthew 7:21-23) Like the two roads that Jesus also spoke about, (Matthew 7:13-14).....one leads to life, the other to "destruction".....all of us are on one road or the other.....truth and falsehood is all there is. God promotes one...the devil promotes the other.....our own hearts decide which to follow....