That Day will come as a trap on all the world

[Chas]

I was taking a nice relaxing bath and I remembered a question one of you had, so rather than take a bath-nap (do any of you take naps in there?) I came back online....

Quoting Ksa:
professor Wrote: The hard part (and I mean sweating-hard) for myself was making the decision to get off the throne of my own life and placing the real king there. The King who died in my place.
THAT is entering the Ark.
(Ksa continued)
Do you realize that the Revised Standard Version of the Bible does not make it very easy to believe in the ascension, trinity and crucifixion of the Christ, much less in him dying for the sins of men. You're telling me what the apostles of Christ interpolated...I wish to know what the Master has to say. Where does the Master say any of this in the Bible?

My reply-
Ksa, I use the King James or Amplified sometimes.
But it doesn't matter if these exact words are in there or not.
The concept is there.
The terms, trust in, believe on, believe in, call upon, and many other words convey the idea.
In the OT, the entire system of animal sacrifice to cover the sins of the nation for a year, was a foreshadow, a prophecy, of what the Messiah would do in his own body- not for a mere year, but forever.

Maybe you should throw that RSV in a recycle bin?
It is probably a version that came from the corrupted Hort/ Wescott deal I heard about.

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Simon, critical thinking and rationality?

You made me think of something.
There are only 2 groups that know what is going on.
The Illuminists and the aware Christians.
How is that for rationality?

The King James Bible has some lovely language, but it isn't an accurate translation.
The RSV is more accurate.