Matthew 24:4
4 And Jesus answered and said to them:
“Take heed that no one deceives you”.
1 Thessalonians 5:21
21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
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Read your Bible daily with no pretexts.
Remember, differences exist in Bible translations.
Some are very good and some are very bad translations.
There is mistranslations but also conscious misleadings.
Do not isolate your studies to one or two resources.
Use also backgrounds, history and good dictionaries.
The more information you have access to,
the more you are enabled to utilize critical thinking.
Remember also:
The Holy Spirit never speaks against the Bible.
The Holy Spirit never adds or takes away from the Bible.
The Holy Spirit tells you what, from where and when to study.
Christian Traps
Christian thinking and Hebrew thinking are two different types of thinking.
Most of the western world thinks like Christians.
Every author of the Bible spoke in Hebrew or Aramaic and
was raised in Hebrew culture and thinking.
Keep in your mind that Yeshua (Jesus) was a Jew from the tribe of Judah and
the root of David- not a Christian.
Presumptions
The Bible is a Jewish book first written in Hebrew and Aramaic based on Jewish
traditions and culture 2000-3500 years ago.
However, nearly all English Bibles are translated through Christian lens-
to support churchianity.
All explanations of the Bible are always dangerous.
All explanations of the Bible are manmade and more or less
twists of the Bible.
In the Bible there is no presumptions- only facts.
All presumptions are also manmade.
Yeshua (Jesus) told us in:
Matthew 5:37
37 But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’
For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.
Do simply believe what a good Bible translation tells you.
You can also use cross references, if you like.
Just remember that cross references too are manmade-
but they can still and all be usefull.
You are anyway the one responsible what you believe in your faith.
It is a question of life and death.
Do believe only in the Bible
So often today, many are easily persuaded to believe or follow what their pastor
believes, or their church or denomination believes or what some book or video
or TV teaches- even what social media believes.
Many times someone interprets the Bible through the lens of their already formed
theology, past preconceived notions, social standing, political views, denominational
bias and so on.
My goal is to enable you to test yourself and your faith to the Bible.
If we do not use Bible to accurately determine what is true,
then we are subject to manmade doctrines to form our own truth,
which of course, would not be truth at all.
All teachings and doctrines must be consistent with the already established
Word of Yahweh our God- the Holy Bible.
People
People in our lives are important.
What others think often becomes important to us as well.
Quite often, some fundamental principles of our faith are not necessarily
derived from the Bible but people of influence.
Ask yourself why you believe what you believe.
Find multiple witnesses of strong support in the Bible.
Hear the opinion of others and respect them-
but test them with the Bible.
Often you will find that strong biblical support might be lacking or
that contradictions may exists.
The Word of Yahweh our God
Read your Bible daily with no pretexts.
The Bible happens to consists of words.
Because of translation differences, cultural differences, linguistic evolution,
metaphorical and poetic language, the meaning of words and how they are
being used are not always so clear.
Examine how a Hebrew or Greek words is used in the Bible.
Examine how the same verse is translated in the Old and New Testament.
Examine how many times some word is used and how it is usually translated.
Look many Bible translations.
It is easy to arrive to strange doctrines and ideas when we do not even know
how words are definitively used in the Bible.
Quite often, how a word is first used in the Bible, sets the precedence of how it
should be understood going forward.
Quite often, how a word is translated in most cases, can be more right.
The journey is not easy but interesting- and worth your while !!
8 The grass withers, the flower fades,
But the word of our God stands forever.
Wolves
Read your Bible daily with no pretexts.
It it the best life insurance to you.
Otherwise, the wolves not only deceive you-
they eat you in their mouths…
And in the end, you will lose your salvation.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good !!!!
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shabbat shalom achi Pete. Yahuah baruch va shamar achi b’shalom.
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Shabbat Shalom and Toda Rabbah and same to you !!
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