The people that the OT talks about had a different way of thinking, and even of talking than we do. When we are given a fact it makes us ask a lot of questions about it. An example is the fact of the creation of our earth. We ask how long God took to do that, what does God mean by a day, why do scientist say it was millions of years and God says a week, how did God do that?
Those things weren’t important to the Hebrews. They said Oh, so God is the creator of me and this earth, how does that affect me, how can I fit into this fact? They really didn’t care about how long it took, and God didn’t tell them.
They didn’t talk about feelings or emotions. They were a very emotional people, so emotions were just understood. They used what resulted from the emotion, the doing of it, to express emotion. Their language reflects that. The way they wrote love was of a person bringing gifts. Their word for home was a picture of a tent. Their word for image is a shadow. They wouldn’t have been able to comprehend our way of thinking.
Much of the NT is about bringing these two ideas together. We are told that faith without works is dead. That doing legalistically just doesn’t cut it. We are to be humble before our God. Or “suffer the little children to come to me”.
Those things weren’t important to the Hebrews. They said Oh, so God is the creator of me and this earth, how does that affect me, how can I fit into this fact? They really didn’t care about how long it took, and God didn’t tell them.
They didn’t talk about feelings or emotions. They were a very emotional people, so emotions were just understood. They used what resulted from the emotion, the doing of it, to express emotion. Their language reflects that. The way they wrote love was of a person bringing gifts. Their word for home was a picture of a tent. Their word for image is a shadow. They wouldn’t have been able to comprehend our way of thinking.
Much of the NT is about bringing these two ideas together. We are told that faith without works is dead. That doing legalistically just doesn’t cut it. We are to be humble before our God. Or “suffer the little children to come to me”.