JGIG: You have expressed very well that you firmly believe that learning anything about how the Hebrew culture and thought was is useless to our understanding scripture.
Really? Prove it.
I can prove otherwise, from my other post on this very thread:
JGIG - Is it helpful to understand Hebrew culture to grasp the finer points of God's foreshadowing and weaving Christ throughout the Scriptures? Yes, but immersing one's self in Hebrew language and cultural studies is not necessary. Israel and her language and culture derived through covenants was a vehicle through which God worked - a means to an end, not the end itself, and certainly not the central theme of the Scriptures. Christ Jesus is the central theme of the Scriptures, woven throughout from beginning to end, in the Hebrew and the Greek manuscripts.
So you either didn't bother to actually read what I wrote, our you're intentionally misrepresenting what I wrote for your own agenda hoping no one will notice.
We notice.
When I was presented with this thought several years ago, I found it to be useful and helpful, and for people serious about loving the Lord, it seemed worthwhile to present it. I was well aware, that here on CC there are many people who, like you, are simply "against all".
RedTent, you got snookered several years ago and have been lured into a false belief system.
You've arrogantly categorized yourself as one 'serious about loving the Lord' BECAUSE you have come to study with an Hebraic mindset - setting yourself up as superior to those who disagree with you and even labeling them as rebellious or ignorant to bolster your elitism. The flip side of that, of course, is that those who don't agree with you are 'not serious about loving the Lord', which is bearing false witness against us.
Bearing false witness is still one of the commandments, is it not?
Yet you repeatedly violate that commandment on this forum.
I thought about mentioning Walt Disney's Bambi who said "If you can't say something good say nothing at all", but I knew it would be useless to warn people for whenever scripture study is mentioned there are posts like yours.
RedTent's Gospel according to Bambi. Got it.
And it wasn't Bambi who said it, it was Thumper. Just to keep our sources straight
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So we're supposed to let RedTent say whatever she wants - plagiarize, bear false witness against her brothers and sisters, and post false teachings, but don't dare point out when she does it. That wouldn't be nice, to challenge the false teachings, lies, and assertions.
Many are simply against much of scripture and will do anything to say anything learned has to be denied.
Really? Who? Name them and provide proof.
And what Scriptures are we against? The ones you post?
Oh - wait - you don't tend to post actual Scriptures, just pontificate about how everyone is against the Scriptures that you don't actually post.
As for the 'learned' stuff you post, what learned stuff? You make assertions left and right, not citing your sources so that we, as we are exhorted to do, may test everything. I have done much research into the ideas that you post, and happen to know where you get a lot of the ideas you post, have evaluated (tested) them, and found them to be lacking. And I'm happy to post links to resources for folks to do their own research and come to their own conclusions.
Almost always these people, like you do, mention the basic purpose of scripture we find throughout, that of God wanting us to live with Him forever, that of salvation. They seem to feel that by stating this accepted truthful idea, anything they say against anything else of scripture is fine.
Again, you bear false witness. 'These people', 'like me', do not post 'against anything else of scripture'. Rightly dividing the Word is something we are exhorted to do. Not all of Scripture applies to all people for all time. We are not in the Old Covenant - God made sure that its obsolescence was secured within one generation of the Work of Christ so that it COULD NOT be relied upon as a covenantal system any longer.
Does the Law still exist and still have a purpose? Yes! To lead people to Christ so that they can enter into His New Covenant! That New Covenant does not merely consist of salvation, but of Righteousness and New Life - AND how to live that New Life - by the Spirit, not by the Law. It really is so clear.
Do we preach salvation? You bet! But it doesn't end there. We go to the New Covenant (the one we enter into by faith in Christ for forgiveness, righteousness, and New Life, which is salvation) for how to live our lives in Christ.
I did copy many ways this website explained what I had learned about Hebrew thought, and explained it better than I could do. I found it a complex subject and hoped others had been interested in it, too. I found the Ancient Hebrew Research Center the best source for information, and hoped people interested would have found this website, too.
Yet the Ancient Hebrew Research Center is
not where you pulled the content for your OP. Nor did you post a link to that site or to the site where you did take someone else's writing and make it appear as your own. So what you're really doing is posting what you've come to believe, without providing anyone with resources with which to do their own research so that they can reach their own conclusions. Then if someone disagrees with what YOU post, you attack them (with no proof such as a quote from them) as being 'against the Bible', as if your opinion is the Biblical standard! And you do all this while not posting Scripture! It really is an amazing thing to watch.
Your next paragraph is a
perfect example:
Instead, almost to a man, the only interest in this subject is to condemn the entire thing! I'm really not surprised. Few people have any interest in studying scripture, especially if it is in the Old Testament that is, to them, a different God and a different bible.
UGH. No, RedTent. Not a different God or a different Bible. Again, you are bearing false witness against your brothers and sisters and setting up a strawman to knock down.
And then you pull the Bambi Card on us?!
Seriously.
-JGIG