"A Thorough understanding of the Bible is better than a college education"...- Theodore Roosevelt.
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"There are such social values today in Europe, America & Australia only because during those 1,000 years, Christians of Europe possessed the warlike power to do what the Christians of Asia & Africa failed to do, that is, to beat back the Moslem invader" -Theodore Roosevelt-1916
"The CIVILIZATION of Europe, America and Australia exists today at all only because of the victories of civilized man over the enemies of CIVILIZATION, because of victories stretching through the centuries from Charles Martel in the 8th century and those of John Sobieski in the 17th century. During the thousand years that included the careers of the Frankish soldier and the Polish king, the Christians of Asia and Africa proved unable to wage successful war with the Moslem conquerors; and in consequence Christianity practically vanished from the two continents; and today nobody can find in them any 'social values' whatever, in the sense in which we use the words, so far as the sphere of Mohammedan influences are concerned ..." President Theodore Roosevelt - 1916
Not bad, now if only Teddy had of had a thorough understanding of the U.S. Constitution we would be better off today. Unfortunately when you elect a Progressive for president you can't expect them to adhere to the Law of the Land.
I somewhat agree with this.
I think that someone should get a good education based on it as early in life as they can. Then just go to school to learn the thing they want to learn.
— Northrop Frye, “The Great Code: The Bible and Literature” 1982
Thse days, almost anything is better than a college "education."
This rings more and more true the more I read the Bible and apply it to my life. What a blessing it is to have access to God's word and to be reborn in Christ. Anyone who is curious should purchase a Bible, believe Jesus died and rose to redeem them, and see what happens. God is mighty to save, and He works in us things that we could never even imagine.
Get into the Greek and Hebrew texts and you will find even more treasure... and several mistranslations. Here is one of the few that should upset no one or few. Every time you see "new moon" the text actually says "new month". There is a difference.
So do you read Greek and Hebrew? This is a rabbit hole that I have been trying to go down for a while.
No, but it helps to know a couple things. Hebrew is a picture or concept language. Greek is like English fairly precise. Unfortunately Koine Greek was not known when the KJV Bible and even Strong's Concordance were written. So there was some guessing going on besides the translators desire to not upset the King or standing church doctrine. Here is something I wrote a while back that might help. You can skip to the part about Words.
The Details We have the most important book ever written in the history of man, the Bible. However, for the majority of Christians it is confusing and some of it makes little sense. This is partly due to some incorrectly translated words, wrong definitions and a push to understand the book from the view point of those who hate the book's author. The world is upside down, not the Kingdom of God.
Here is my current list of thoughts to help make sense of the Bible
The people of Biblical Israel are not Jews. The words Jew and Israel are not interchangeable. They are not the same people.
There is no Spiritual Israel. The modern day Jews are not the Israel of the Bible. The people descended from Jacob do not know who they are for the most part as the Bible says would happen.
The new covenant is specifically made with the same people as the older covenant. There has never been any changes nor additions to that covenant.
Christ came to redeem His people. Christ did not fail. Promises were made and kept by God. To suggest that now other people have replaced Israel makes God a promise breaker and liar.
The true Biblical people who are physical Israel have heard and do hear Christ's voice for almost 2000 years and for the most part follow Him just as Christ declared. Just because they don't know they are true physical Israel and think they are some "Gentile" people doesn't mean they are not Israel. For examples, the "Gentiles" in Romans 2:14-15, 9:24-26 and Ephesians 2:11 must be the Ten Northern Tribes who were scattered abroad.
God has not done anything without telling His prophets. There has never been any declaration suggesting that non-Israelites have now been made a part of the covenant. All the verses that appear to hint at that do not in the Greek.
Israel is not just one nation of people. There were several promises made to Bible patriarchs that their physical children would become many nations. This has happened. Israel has taken the light of the Gospel to the world forming many nations as they went.
God has morals. His morals are found in His Law. God does not change. His Law is not done away.
We must love our enemies, but loving God's enemies is treason. Loving and helping those who hate God brings punishment from God on us. It is this and our ignoring of scriptures that tell us to keep physically separate from those whom scripture specifies that has gotten us into the mess we are in today.
Words If you want to understand the Bible the way it was intended to be understood then you must use God's definitions for words. Here is my current list of words. Each of the following words are defined in the Bible itself, most are defined in the old testament.
Adoption-coming of age placement of one who is already a son, glory, covenants, Law, service of God, promises, Elect, Called, The Called, children, chosen, royal priesthood, holy nation, peculiar or special treasure, treasure, grapes, olives, even wild olives and sheep. Afar off and those near. Brother and neighbor. "Not a people" and what is food.
When you see the word Jew in the old testament read Judahite. When you see the word Jew in the new testament read Judaean (as in country). When you see the word Gentile in the Bible read Nation. Let the context determine the who. Many times it is Israel or a portion of Israel such as the Ten Northern Tribes.
Even the word divorce is found when it should read "separated" or "separated, still married". Most have the wrong definition for adultery, adulteration, to mix, miscegenation. In marriage, the sperm of two, the husband and another is mixed in the woman.
One must take into account all of the old testament quotes found in the new testament. The author of the Bible expects you to know the context of each quote in order to fully understand the meaning intended. Ignoring this has created much false doctrine.
Thank you. Excellent write up.
The new moon is how they determined the beginning of a new month. It was originally done by observation, but is now done by calculation.
"Moon" and "month" are from the same root word, thus not really different.
Take a look at how the Hebrew calendar works. It starts with Spring. The months are 30 days with a 90 day Soldier Sabbath. There is no need for the moon. That is a Babylonian corruption. Notice the month used after Babylon. It is not Abib.
Not so. The Israelites used the calendar of wherever they were at the time. They used the Egyptian calendar, then the Canaanite calendar, then the Babylonian calendar, all lunar. This goes back almost 4,000 years. See the various works by Gérard Gertoux on chronology of ancient people. Info about him is here: https://univ-lyon2.academia.edu/GerardGERTOUX/CurriculumVitae and the same site has some of his works available for download.
BTW, I've been studying chronology and calendars for 50 years. How about you?
You are talking about Israel using the calendar of their captors. We are doing the same right now in a way. Some of that is because of what we have been incorrectly taught. When Israel was free and on their own, they used God's calendar. After Babylon they brought the Babylonian calendar back with them. They were still under the rule of Babylon. The world is upside down, not the Kingdom of God.
The modern day Jews are not, and have never been, God's Israel people as proven by the bible, history and Jewish writings.
You are mixing unlike things. The real Jews are descendants of Israelites, but not all of the descendants. Based on many things, including DNA, the Israelites spread through parts of Europe. For example, my male line goes back to Germany in the 1500s, but my Y-DNA goes back to central Asia and is semitic.
What is this "God's calendar"? The religious calendar was lunar, and the civil calendar was solar. There's not much evidence of anything before the flood other than the first few chapters of Genesis. And it wasn't that long after the flood, historically speaking, when Abraham and his people went to Egypt. There was back and forth with Egypt until the exodus.
Have you read this? From a NYT best seller: "In Part Two, Chapters V-VII, I have compiled the historical evidence which indicates that the bulk of Eastern Jewry - and hence of world Jewry - is of Khazar-Turkish, rather than Semitic, origin." , from the chapter Race and Myth, page 199, "The Thirteenth Tribe", by Jewish author Arthur Koestler, 1976. That is the 90%
Esau is Edom, Genesis 36. "Edom is in modern Jewry", The Jewish Encyclopedia. 9% are of Edomite, Canaanite descent.
I haven't read that in particular, but I do know that most "Jews" in Israel, based on random DNA testing, are not Semitic. They are mostly German.
I have German ancestry, but my Y-DNA goes back eventually to central Asia and is Semitic.
I think Turkistan is meant rather than Turkey, as the Khazars were supposed to come from Kazakhstan in central Asia.
What would this pedo know about the bible?