Jag made some great points, but lets add this the word for tree and the word for backbone its 6086 in the Strongs... and as Jag pointed out about the tree of life which we all accept as Christ... Lets look at why this has been changed, just a bit Jeremiah 8 tells the tale..... the scribes ...some more clues in the Word? look a the book of Genesis in 4;17 you see the geneology of Cain and then in 5 you see the geneology of Adam... Cain is not in there..and notice how the names a closely alike, as if Cain were a weak imitation? Why has this happened? and what is Satan up to? God used Jeremiah to show us the beginnings of it in Jeremiah 8:5Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. 6I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. 8How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. Notice the scripture I Chron. 2:55 55And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.This shows where the seed of the murderer had infiltrated the Levites to be the scribes , the beginning of the "transltion in translation" had begun.... the hiding of truth and the deception is continuing... God has given us a guide to see what teachings we should be learning from in the book of Revelations in his discourse of the churches... there were two He was pleased with and what is the common denomination of these two churches?........ the Jews that are not Jews..Revelation 2:9. I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. Revelation 3:9.. Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.Let look to St. Paul and Christ for the rest of the story...in John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. The Greek word for seed is 'sperma"... thats clear enough for all to see that it is a physical seed not a spiritual one... So now who is Israel today.. it is mostly the true tribe of Judah and the false tribe of Judah the good figs and the bad figs...and who will devise some way of deviding the good from the bad? Only Christ can and he has told us to leave it to the angels to do so in the parable of the tares... in Matthew 13: 25-40.. why had satan desired to plant his tares among Judah.. for God blessed Judah with the keeping or the Torah and satan loves to mess with the scriptures and he has used his children to do so...but those of us who speak against satan and refuse to let him have any place in our lives have learned to study the Word by using tools to go back to the original languages and see what is truly there in the scriptures...God's true blessing... and where is Israel ? who are Isaac's sons? they shortened it to SAXONS...God never lost any tribe from Iarael of any other.. and Paul... says in 2 Corinthians 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. So what does the strongs say about that word beguiled? its 1818 Wholly seduced... that's very plain... its a sexual word... and it went all the way wholly...I look to the Revelations verses as a guide for the church... look at the mailstreams and know they are in the majority of the group.... because only a very few teach what God considered the important... even the seiminaries do not teach it... why because out of all the churches only 2 out of 7 less than 1/3 of al he people who ever lived and went to church around the world knew the truth, the whole thruth and had a complete understanding of God and his plan, satan an his plan ... Christ said:Luke 12:22 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. Who is the one that would benefit from the hiding of truth? the LIAR..