What evidence is there to suggest the Critical Text is less biased than the Received Text with regard to the Trinity doctrine?
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[An old CSE question](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/91994/how-do-biblical-unitarians-explain-1-timothy-316-which-says-god-was-manifest) which has recently attracted a bounty has an answer that criticises the King James Version translation of 1 Timothy 3:16.
This question is not about that specific Bible verse but is about the claim that the KJV is biased when it comes to Scriptures that support the Trinity, that it is peppered with error and is not a true translation but an adaptation of previously released translations with selective interpretation.
The King James Version used the Received Text (the Textus Receptus) in the compilation of the New Testament. In 1881 Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton J. A. Hort printed their New Testament in Greek, later known as the Critical Text. Dismissing the Textus Receptus as an inferior text rife with errors, Westcott and Hort compiled a new Greek text, with special focus on two fourth-century manuscripts, the Codex Vaticanus and the Codex Sinaiticus.
The Critical Text has become the standard Greek text used for modern interpretation and translation for nearly two generations. The Critical Text was the one chiefly used for the English Revised Version and the later American Standard Version. Today, the updated and revised Critical Text is the Greek manuscript basis for the New International Version, the New American Standard Bible, the English Standard Version, and virtually every other modern English translation of the Bible.
My question is whether there is any evidence to suggest that the Critical Text is less biased when it comes to the doctrine of the Trinity or if the Received Text is a more reliable and authentic rendition of New Testament Greek.
See this question about the Unitarian influence with Westcott and Hort: https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/90360/how-do-proponents-of-the-critical-text-respond-to-the-claim-that-it-preserves
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