Putting to Test the Recovery Version

[JJ]

Originally Posted by testallthings

THE BREAD BECAME CRUMBS

I don't know of any kind of bread that would become crumbs if it falls from the table. Actually there is one, a very, very old and stale bread!
If children throw bread on the floor, a loving mother would pick it up, clean it, and give it back to the child. She would not allow the dogs to eat it!

What about unleavened bread?

[testallthings]

WHAT A TURN!

Mar 7:24 And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.
Mar 7:25 For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
Mar 7:26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
Mar 7:27 But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
Mar 7:28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
Mar 7:29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
Mar 7:30 And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed. (KJV, emphasis added)

Same story, different details. What is really interesting from this passage, compared to that in Matthew, is that the Lord Jesus was hiding in a house! (I guess here the house has lost the meaning that W. Lee associated with it in the Gospel of Matthew!) That's a little bit strange if He really had forsaken the house of Israel and was turning to the Gentiles. He was turning to the Gentiles by hiding in a house! And He wanted that no one knew it! What a turn!

[testallthings]

CHURCH AND KINGDOM OF THE HEAVENS ARE INTERCHANGEABLE,
KINGDOM OF HEAVENS AND KINGDOM OF GOD ARE NOT
(REALLY?)

Mat 16:18 And I also say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
Mat 16:19 I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. (ASV)

"Kingdom of the heavens is used here interchangeably for church,which is used in the previous verse. This is a strong proof that the genuine church is the kingdom of the heavens in this age..."

Note 2 on Matthew 16:19 in the Recovery Version
http://online.recoveryversion.org/Fo...asp?FNtsID=643


Mat 19:23 And Jesus said unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, It is hard for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 19:24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. (ASV)


"Verse 23 uses kingdom of the heavens, but here kingdom of God is used. At this point the kingdom of the heavens had not come, but the kingdom of God was there. Hence, the Lord used the term kingdom of God."

Note 2 on Matthew 19:24 in the recovery Version
http://online.recoveryversion.org/Fo...asp?FNtsID=735


What do you think? It is only my opinion that W. Lee is playing fast and loose with these verses? Which term would be more interchangeable with another? Shouldn't be kingdom of the heavens and kingdom of God? instead of church and kingdom of the heavens?

[OBW]

Originally Posted by testallthings

CHURCH AND KINGDOM OF THE HEAVENS ARE INTERCHANGEABLE, KINGDOM OF HEAVENS AND KINGDOM OF GOD ARE NOT (REALLY?)

Only if Matthew v Mark/Luke are not really quoting Jesus on the same accounts. Otherwise (and clearly so) there is no real difference. Only a difference in terminology.