Why do so many pastors and preachers say things like, "It doesn't make sense!", "It isn't fair!", and "I don't understand it all myself!" about the "Gospel" that they preach? It's not God's fault. It's the fault of theologians, among others.
Theologians have very often, and starting very early in Church history, misread, mistranslated and corruptingly taught the message of God in the Holy Bible. The illogicality of their idea systems ought to be a clear warning to anyone: these idea systems are not from God.
The working system of God's salvation is represented allegorically by the history of God's salvation of the Israelites. This is just like God: to provide an explanation in the form of a story that a child can understand. The New Testament says repeatedly: the histories of the Old Testament are there for our example and warning.
A brief summary could be like this: "Precisely according to the Exodus antetype, Christ-believers are given teaching, commandments and leaders, ransomed, baptized, tested, and chastized—a seven-part sanctification process." ("New Light from Science on Methods for Bible Translation:A test case from 2 Corinthians", J.J. Thomas, February 2016)
Note well that in the Exodus history, not everyone passes the test. This is precisely what is warned and described historically in the New Testament as well, about Christians.
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