Rot in hell, Alexandrians

My God. Shame on anybody who doesn't denounce the modern (per)versions.

I was just reading Vos on Hosea 14:8. It is a beautiful, powerful verse. Here it is in the KJV:

Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.

Here it is in the ESV:

O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress; from me comes your fruit.

These deceptive clown-demons who recite their mantra that nothing is substantially different between the Romanist Critical Text manuscripts and the Traditional Text manuscripts should burn in hell for eternity. Every where you look in these modern perversions of God's Word you find such things as above.

Shame on any Christian who doesn't denounce the modern perversions passing themselves off as the Word of God.

Meredith G. Kline and C. S. Lewis

In a passage of Kingdom Prologue which can be found in this PDF put together by one of his students you come across the wonderful description of how things will be different for glorified individuals in, basically, heaven. C. S. Lewis once wrote that he didn't just want to be able to see a beautiful sunrise, but he wanted to *be* the sunrise as well. That would be the new and complete experience. What fallen humans experience (and not just regarding nature) is alienation.

So here is Kline in Kingdom Prologue talking about the same thing (I pick it up somewhat prior to give 'some' context, but Kingdom Prologue is a wild book using alot of newly-coined terms, and it's difficult to give context with an excerpt):

In an unfallen world [if Adam hadn't fallen], cultural history would have been a tale of one city only. Starting from Eden man was to work at constructing this one universal kingdom-city. Blessed by the Great King of the city, man would have prospered in that task and eventually the extended city might have been aptly called Megapolis. But such a worldwide community of the human family would have marked the limits of the cultural potential of earthly man. God himself must perfect the promise of the covenant by transforming prototypal Megapolis into antitypal Metapolis.

Metapolis [think 'New Jerusalem'] is not just an enlarged Megapolis, but a Megapolis that has undergone eschatological metamorphosis at the hands of the Omega-Spirit. Nothing of earthly culture external to man enters Metapolis. Even man himself cannot enter it as mortal flesh and blood (1 Cor 15:50). Only as the glorified handiwork of God can man pass through the gates of the eternal city. Actually, to speak of glorified men entering Metapolis is to speak with a pronounced typological accent. For Metapolis is not a city that glorified man inhabits. It is rather the case that glorified man is Metapolis; in the redemptive dialect, the bride of the Lamb is the New Jerusalem (Rev 21:9,10). In the Metapolis enterprise materiel and personnel coincide.

Note the last two sentences. This is a realm that Greek mythology kind of gets at. Or mythology in general. It's there in the human imagination. In reality it requires an eschatological act by God. Not only for our own bodies but for heaven and earth as well.