Battle of the Bibles - Present Truth

JB "Christ, our, passover, has been sacrificed".
NIV "For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed".
For those who are inclined to minimise the importance of the two missing words:
'for us", it is here pertinent to quote B.G. Wilkinson: "That Christ was sacrificed is an
historical fact; that He was sacrificed 'for us" is a doctrine and the very basis of which the
Gospel rests. Take away the fact that he died for us, as the Revisers did in this text, and
there is no Gospel left. The leading Revisers, in particular, Westcott and Hort, rejected
the idea that Christ was our substitute and sacrifice" ("Our Authorised Bible Vindicated",
p 193).
Group 6. Against Christ's Resurrection and Ascension, and Second
Advent
If there is one thing the Gnostics and Rationalists cannot stomach, it is the fact of
Christ's resurrection and ascension. It follows then that the doctrine of His second
advent must be a nonsense to such unbelievers.
Matthew 24:3
"Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming
and of the end of the world?"
Douay "And what shall be the sign of They coming and of the consummation of
the world?'
RV Note "And what shall be the sign of Thy presence and of the consummation
of the age?'
RSV "and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?"
NIV "and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?'
Not that all the above (except the Revised Version which relies on a note to inject
uncertainty) are indefinite as to the precise nature of the event. "The end of the age"
could refer to any of earth's historical periods, such as the age of Roman rule, the
supremacy of an empire, or a social era.
Mark 16:9-20
"Now, when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to
Mary Magdalene ...After that he appeared in another form unto two of them ... Afterward
he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat ... So then after the Lord had spoken
unto them he was received up into heaven, and sat at the right hand of God".
RV Note "The two oldest Greek manuscripts and some other authorities omit
from verse nine to the end".
RSV Note The chapter ends with verse eight and verses nine to twenty are
recorded in note .
NIV "The translators preface verses nine to twenty with the observation,: "The
most reliable early manuscripts do not have Mark 16:9-20-.
If "the most reliable manuscripts" do not include these verses, then why include
them in a note? The manuscripts which the revisers incorrectly describe are the
Vaticanus and Sinaiticus which, as we have seen, have at times been rejected by Rome
as inferior to the Itala; hence it is fairly predictable that both the Douay and the
Jerusalem Bibles should include these verses.
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