Pt 4 Pearl of Great Price & Sefer Yetzirah

The interesting ancient Jewish understandings in our Pearl of Great Price and other Jewish documents are most interesting.

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[omiolo2]

Qal huh?

I have been trying to sharpen my Hebrew since your Hebrew alphabet lessons a while a go.

[TheBackyardProfessor]

Yeah I need to try and sneak in more Hebrew as I can.....it's good practice, even though I know next to nothing grammatically about it. I can read it fine, well, I mean sorta fine, but explaining grammar? fuhgetaboutit! LOL!

[evangelical1]

I think that you are reading too much into the physical language. While the Bible does certainly speak of God in anthropomorphic language, we are not to take this literally. The Bible portrays God as having hands but it also portrays Him as having wings. We don't take the latter literally so we shouldn't take the former literally unless we have good over-riding reasons to do so. Likewise, talk of God's vocal cords shouldn't be taken too literally.

[TheBackyardProfessor]

No you don't take it literally. Yet in other areas you DO take things literally, so who is to decide when something is literal and when something is not? Jesus is my proof of the literal anthropomorphism of God. Everything He is God the Father is. That is His own great teaching.

[evangelical1]

You know when to take a passage literally or metaphorically, as the case may be, by context. Context is the key to interpretation. But Jesus wouldn't be necessary to reveal God if He, God, where a man like us.

[TheBackyardProfessor]

And the context is CLEARLY stated that God spoke to Moses face to face as one man to another. I'd say that's the context. Jesus revealed not only God but the KIND of being God is, in Himself, namely an exalted glorified man.

[TheEricBaklyChannel]

So God said let there be the Light of Christ, and there was the spirit of God. Why do you think Lucifer wanted the Glory or Light of God. Christ wants to impart this light to all of us. For this is his work and his "Glory." So it is with the Resurrection of the dead, Glory of the Sun the Glory of the Moon and the Glory of the stars. Moses received Light and Truth by the God's Words. By the Spirit Moses saw all the souls (Moses 1:28) Lectures on Faith 5 By this light God is all knowing.

[GmaM11]

So if you are so interested in Hebrew, how do you reconcile all of the additions to the Torah in the JS version. Also how do you reconcile the Lord "revealing His Word" mixing it with the pagan (Egyptian codices) It is dangerous to rely too much on Talmud, which tends to step across the line from truth to fiction by coloring the Word of God with their personal fantasy.

[ed2276]

Very powerful teachings here, because this not only applies to the creative power of God through His words, but it applies to man as well, for man speaks words also. Our words are very powerful...the way we put together letter and sounds and send them out with our breath (rauch)...they can uplift and inspire, or they can injure and destroy others. The Lord said, it is not what we put into our mouths that can defile us, but what comes out of our mouths..the words that we speak! Awesome, Kerry!

[evangelical1]

No, the passage is that God spoke with Moses face to face. To understand the meaning we go to the surrounding context. For example, back in chapter three God says He is I Am. He did not say that He is the Now I Am or the I Became. It seems from this, that God has been God from all eternity past (and must be immaterial therefore). By the way, are you planning to answer my pm? I really want to hear back on those questions I sent. I won't correct you on whatever you say on that.

[omiolo2]

no spirit, no movement?

[omiolo2]

beware of pride =)

/couldn't resist