The word TOV
is translated “good” and appears 7 times in Genesis (1:1-2:4a). Key words that
appear 7 times in a story are usually very important words in the Hebrew
Scriptures -- and the Hebrew teachings of Jesus. Below are the 7 times
in Genesis 1. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/00e09871a296/the-original-meanings-of-good-and-evil-in-the-bible
Have you
ever thought about that question before? I believe there is a very short and simple
biblical answer. Genesis 1:28 says: And the Creator blessed the man and
woman, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth
and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of
the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/8896e89209d1/why-does-the-creator-require-hungry-people-to-be-fed
Instead of using
lexicons, dictionaries or concordances to provide meanings of words, which are
usually expressed in one word, we create a “bundle of associations” from the
underlined factors above. “List thinking” requires tracking ideas
through multiple sections of the Hebrew Scriptures. This is what the Real Jewish Jesus taught! Have you ever heard of it before? Continue
reading at - https://mailchi.mp/3ce3b05d6e11/jesus-list-thinking-and-the-light-of-life
The language
of Jesus was the Hebrew language in the scroll Ezra carried to Jerusalem in 458
BCE. The scribal schools at the Temple in Jerusalem were around until 70 CE
when the Romans destroyed the Temple. And soon after that this form of Hebrew
was lost to the followers of Jesus. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/2b2d20b82f2b/a-list-thinking-lesson-from-jesus
You are
going to discover what the reader from the ancient world would know immediately,
while at the same time knowing that it is totally oblivious to most modern
readers. Get ready for an exciting and very important exploration! Continue
reading at - https://mailchi.mp/70d26bdc76c7/why-did-the-creator-rest-on-day-seven
Why is the “Creator”
in the Declaration of Independence? We can’t pretend to understand, “We
hold these truths to be self-evident . . .,” until we answer the first question.
In the very first sentence of the Declaration, the colonists describe
themselves as founding a country that would take its “separate and equal”
place on the world’s stage. Continue reading at: https://mailchi.mp/6b9fa539509f/why-is-the-creator-in-the-declaration-of-independence
So popular
was the Hebrew Language in the late 16th and early 17th centuries that several
students at Yale delivered their commencement orations in Hebrew. Harvard,
Yale, Columbia, Brown, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, and the University of
Pennsylvania taught courses in Hebrew - all the more remarkable because
no university in England at the time offered it. Many of the Founding
Fathers of America were products of these American Universities. Continue
reading at - https://mailchi.mp/d1a5da9e4ae2/the-story-of-the-hebrew-scriptures-in-the-american-colonies
