Types, tupos, of Christs’
In reading one of my favorite books, the author’s were giving illustrations of the relationship between God the Father and his only son Jesus Christ. One of them was the relationship between the Pharaoh in Egypt and Joseph. The Pharaoh gave Joseph his signet ring which represented his authority over all of Egypt. The only exception to Joseph’s authority was the throne.
Another example was that of Abraham and Isaac. This one is even more intimate where Abraham is told to sacrifice his only son that took him over 100 years to get! In this example Isaac is 30 years old and goes along with everything willingly.
As we know, an angel of the LORD stopped Abraham from carrying out the sacrifice of Isaac. These two men are “types” of Christs’; essentially they were “proto-types” of the coming Messiah. Jesus read about these two to prepare him for the joy that was set before him to endure death, knowing what he was in for afterward.
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The two Bible v…
The two Bible version that are the most accurate representatives of the original God-breathed Word are, in my opinion, the New Revised Standard Version and the New American Standard Bible, updated edition. If you are not using these daily, I highly recommend that you begin to, at least to compare them to what you are reading.
The KJV of the Bible has hundreds of words added by the translators that are not in italics as some words that were added are. Reading and therefore believing things which were not God-breathed, theo pneustos, is very dangerous.
If you seriously want to know that what you are reading was in any original manuscript I highly recommend a PC Bible Software program. These two versions leave out a lot of the words the KJV adds. These programs will also show what the original words mean according to their Hebrew and Greek usage. Short of this, you need to apprentice yourself to someone who does this, so you end up believing what is true.
Just because we believe something, doesn’t make it right. The Bible says there are many impostors in the church, some knowingly, some not.
What Bible Programs do you recommend?
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