Mr. Spencer has made his choice.
No such "demand". If the 165 date is true, it helps decimate the textual theories behind the Critical Text.
The 165 date has not one shred of evidence to support it.
Not. One.
However, it is a fascinating discussion, between the 2nd, 3rd or 4th centuries.
Not really. It's the epitome of a "who cares" discussion.
The Thomas Strouse sentence needs a quote and reference.
Or you could just read the cited paper.
It's online - it's free.
But nevertheless, the article is "Did Heretics Alter 1 John 5:7?"
On page 5 of the article, the citation from Strouse comes from his conspiratorial mind-boggling nonsense called "A Critique of D.A. Carson's 'The KJV Debate: A Plea for Realism" on page 18. Feel free to actually look it up if you hope to prove me incorrect.
I really trust nothing from Bill Brown without proper referencing.
Right to the personal attacks and insults, presumably because this position you hold has nothing to support it at all.
Apparently Bill Brown did not even read Edward Freer Hills, who he referenced earlier.
Now - if you SUBSTANTIATE this, it's not a personal attack.
Don't - and it is.
I wonder why you didn't bother to substantiate it. We'll read further and see why.
SPENCER QUOTE:
Edward Freer Hills - King James Version Defended
It is possible, therefore, that the Sabellian heresy brought the Johannine comma into disfavor with orthodox Christians. The statement, these three are one, no doubt seemed to them to teach the Sabellian view that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit were identical. And if during the course of the controversy manuscripts were discovered which had lost this reading in the accidental manner described above, it is easy to see how the orthodox party would consider these mutilated manuscripts to represent the true text and regard the Johannine comma as a heretical addition. In the Greek-speaking East especially the comma would be unanimously rejected, for here the struggle against Sabellianism was particularly severe.
Thus it was not impossible that during the 3rd century amid the stress and strain of the Sabellian controversy, the Johannine comma lost its place in the Greek text, but was preserved in the Latin texts of Africa and Spain, where the influence of Sabellianism was probably not so great.