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I'll leave you all to it. I need to go dust off my feet. b.

In secular languages, humans ultimately determine meanings by usage: most of us will remember the time when "bad" meant "good." Hebrew is difficult because it has become a secular language; but it was a liturgical language from its beginnings, as careful reading of the biblical references to...

Amazing it's not worn completely down. :-(

We're dealing with English words, here. To analyze and explain the reason for the usage of the many distinct Hebrew word forms translated as evil or wicked in their scriptural contexts would require a major treatise. This same difficulty applies to a great number of scriptural concepts, most...

I was unclear when I wrote: The law of Moses requires temple access and the participation of the priesthood, divided at that time between the two primary sects. The Essenes had no where to lay their heads. I ought to have written, "Carnal/literal observance of the law of Moses..." etc. No...

If evil is the opposite of good, not wickedness, then why does the prophet Ezekiel lament the people's inability to distinguish between good and evil, the people putting one for the other and the other for the one? Nobody mistakes wickedness for good, nor is it anywhere in scripture suggested...

I would add one thing, Thomas: The man that said, "This is my body, blood: eat, drink," also said, "The words I speak to you are the Father's words." b.

Quote: Originally Posted by b.finton Y'shua's real name was probably Yahuchannan/John, the Essene teacher of righteousness, who predated the time period attributed to...

Robin Hood's "good" deeds undoubtedly goosed need to covetous greed in some: "it's good we got theirs, when do we get more?" The fight against the third Reich morphed into W's wars, so far as USA is concerned. When we looked into the abyss of the forties, it looked back: big time. Does...

Is this instruction for remembrance limited to what has become the "eucharist," in Christian tradition? As I read the whole of the Jewish/Christian/Muslim teachings, there is nothing in Creation that is separate from the "body" and "blood" of Yahushua, who is the Projection/Son of Yah made...

I'm intrigued by the suggestion of levels of continua in this context, but my question was intended to be planer (sorry ;-). When I first read the teaching, "If you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children," I imagined that it was directed to a group of "bad" people, with...

If "good" is at one end of a continuum and "evil" is at the other, where would one plot "wickedness" in that array? b.

Jayhawker: Your avatar offers peace but your words do not. The letters, themselves, speak to those with eyes to see and ears to hear. Expertise is not needed. Only openness.

Re. rubbish. The Oral Tradition includes Notaricon, which posits that each letter of the Hebrew alefbet has specific meanings. Rabbi Ginsburg's site, The Inner-Dimension, provides a synopsis of traditional meanings. Although the Hebrew script engineered in Ezra's time reflects aspects of the...

Yeah, I mixed English and Hebrew translations. Sorry. The etymological Hebrew of scripture is faithful to Sinatic Hebrew, so far as the oral tradition is concerned. However, each word in the original script is a gateway to oracular scripture. b.