Colossians 2:2 - That their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, and that they would attain to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God's mystery, that is, Christ Himself,
Colossians 2:3 - in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. -- New American Standard Version.
Colosians 2:2 I want their hearts to be encouraged and united in love, so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ himself,
Colossians 2:3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. -- New Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition.
Colossians 2:2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
Colossians 2:3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. -- King James Version.
Colossians 2:2,3 is often cited as speaking of the trinity.
There are over 10 textual variants of Colossians 2:2, and this is reflected in the various ways that translators have rendered this verse. We will say that none of the variants, however, present God as being more than one person, and none of them present Jesus as being God.
Nevertheless, many trinitarians do read "trinity" into what is stated. To do this, they simply assume the trinity is true and that all the assumptions that need to be added concerning the trinity are true. The expression "mystery of God" in many translations of Colossians 2:2 apparently is assumed to be referring the mystery of the trinune God, that is, that God is three persons.
Actually, "God" in this verse refers to one person, and Christ refers to one who is not God, but whom God as anointed. The scriptures show Jesus, not as being God, but is the one whom God anointed [made christ, the anointed one] and the one whom Jehovah sent. The default reasoning should be that Jesus is not Jehovah who thus anointed and sent him. -- Psalm 2:26; 45:7; Isaiah 61:1; Ezekiel 34:23,24; John 10:29; 17:1,3; Acts 2:23,36; 4:27; 10:38; Hebrews 1:9.
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