Do your due diligence before you make such inaccurate and misleading remarks.
As a matter of fact Dean John William Burgon in The Revision Revised wrote a 76 page DISSERTATION on this verse, and clearly established that *GOD* is the correct reading.
[19] “GOD was manifested in the flesh” Shown To Be The True Reading Of 1 Timothy III. 16.
A Dissertation.
In conclusion, you [Bishop Ellicott] insist on ripping up the discussion
concerning 1 Tim. iii. 16 I had already devoted eight pages
to this subject. You reply in twelve. That I may not be
thought wanting in courtesy, the present rejoinder shall extend to seventy-six..
...Moreover this is the view of the matter in which all the learning and all the piety of the English Church has thankfully acquiesced for the last 350 years. It has commended itself to Andrewes and Pearson, Bull and Hammond, Hall and Stillingfleet, Ussher and Beveridge, Mill and Bengel, Waterland and Berriman. The enumeration of names is easily brought down to our own times. Dr. Henderson, (the learned non-conformist commentator,) in 1830 published a volume with the following title:—
“The great mystery of godliness incontrovertible: or, Sir Isaac Newton and the Socinians foiled in the attempt to prove a corruption in the text 1 Tim. iii. 16: containing a review of the charges brought against the passage; an examination of the
various readings; and a confirmation of that in the received
text on principles of general and biblical criticism.”
The Revision Revised, pages 434-510.
Of course, since you are a committed naysayer, it will make no difference to you, and you will find yet another excuse to dodge the truth. However, keep in mind that those that refuse the truth become spiritually blinded.
mmm John Burgon, the same Anglican that attempted to defend the authenticity of the last 12 verses of Mark 16. When these verses were never found in any early manuscript of Mark. You are right, I'm not impressed and you can keep your precious source as your truth.
As I already said,
Instead of God, they used the word ‘He,’ ‘Who’ or ‘Which’ instead. Some examples, even from your fellow Trinitarians....they do get it right many times I have to admit...
NIV 1984 edition - “HE appeared in a body, was vindicated by the Spirit...”
NASB 1995 edition - “HE WHO was revealed in the flesh, was vindicated in the Spirit...”
RSV - “HE was manifested in the flesh, vindicated in the Spirit...”
ESV 2001 - “HE (R10) was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit...” Footnote 10 - Greek Who; some manuscripts God; others Which.
Holman Standard 2003 - “HE was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit”
ISV (International Standard Version) - “In flesh was HE revealed to sight, Kept righteous by the Spirit's might”
Catholic Douay-Rheims 1582 - “And evidently great is the mystery of godliness WHICH was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, appeared unto angels,”
Catholic Douay 1950 - "great is the mystery of godliness: WHICH was manifested in the flesh"
St. Joseph New American Bible 1970 - “HE was manifested in the flesh, vindicated in the Spirit...”
Catholic New Jerusalem bible 1985 - “HE was made visible in the flesh, justified in the Spirit...”
Catholic Public Domain Version 2009 - "this mystery of piety, which was manifested in the flesh"
Besides, you are also missing the main point, it was Jesus that was seen by angels, given glory by his Father etc... his Father as YHWH never gave himself a human body and then gave glory to it....how sick is that...unless you invent impossible and imaginary processes like incarnation and the hypostatic union of two natures dwelling in one vessel and kept separate, mutually exclusive.
To force YHWH into a human body, to make him have his own divine nature plus a human nature, to fit a sick pagan theory that is a mystery and a lie. This mocks my Yahshua, Lord and Savior and my Creator, YHWH. It brings Yahshua, the Son of YHWH of no consequence or significance, and mocks his Father's role and power and influence on his Son to bring salvation to us all, who is also my YHWH.
It would be interesting to know who you pray to, and it must be difficult at times to keep it all straight with all this stuff going on, of dual-200% natures housed inside one living human body, walking around 2000 years ago, and as a god-man saviour, as God the Son, and God the Father, and a separate personality for YHWH's own Spirit?
just saying....
APAK