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kjw47

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@kjw47 @Vee

Proverbs 3:5

NWT 5 Trust in Jehovah+ with all your heart, And do not rely* on your own understanding.+

998 [e] bî-nā-ṯə-ḵā, בִּֽ֝ינָתְךָ֗ on your own understanding Noun

binah: an understanding
Original Word: בִּינָה
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: binah
Phonetic Spelling: (bee-naw')
Short Definition: understanding
Definition
an understanding
NASB Translation
clearly (1), consideration (1), discernment (3), truth (1), understand (1), understanding (29), understands (1), understood (1).

knowledge, meaning, perfectly, understanding, wisdom

From biyn; understanding -- knowledge, meaning, X perfectly, understanding, wisdom.

see HEBREW biyn 38 Occurrences

Proverbs 9:10
HEB: וְדַ֖עַת קְדֹשִׁ֣ים בִּינָֽה׃
NAS: of the Holy One is understanding.
KJV: of the holy [is] understanding.
INT: and the knowledge of the Holy is understanding

Job 28:28
HEB: וְס֖וּר מֵרָ֣ע בִּינָֽה׃ ס
NAS: from evil is understanding.'
KJV: from evil [is] understanding.
INT: depart evil understanding

Do you want to play a game? No?

Take Job 28:28 and insert YOUR meaning of בִּינָה into it. What do you get?


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kjw47

Well-Known Member
So what happens to the rank and file witness if Jesus comes back tomorrow, and your "real teachers" didn't examine, discern or consider the last "new light" in time?


Every IF ever thought of since the beginning of time holds a total value of 0.
 

Ingledsva

HEATHEN ALASKAN
With the trinitarian concept as used by the Catholic Church, for example, it is typically referred to as "the mystery of the Trinity", thus not being three gods but being one god with three "manifestations", if I can use an eastern-religious word for it. Notice the word "mystery", whereas the teaching of the church is that the exact relationship cannot be determined because it's beyond earthly comprehension.

In that teaching, certainly there are differences between the three "manifestations", and yet they are believed to be in some manner so "joined at the hip" to the point of being inseparable.

Do I personally believe this? No, but neither can I say it's wrong.

Except that they have all three showing up individually, at the same time. Thus not ONE. And Jesus wasn't praying to himself.

Luk 3:21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus (1) also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,

Luk 3:22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove (2) upon him, and a voice came from heaven,(3) which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.

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Ingledsva

HEATHEN ALASKAN
I really wish that you would stop posing as a Tanakh expert. It's unseemly.

As for the Christian Trinity, see, for example, Wikipedia: ****uf ...

What? I've never claimed to be an expert on Tanakh.

And you posted this to my post saying Tanakh has ONE God and totally rejects the trinity idea.

What is the problem with this? Unless you misunderstood something I said?

Me discussing Tanakh, - is no different then you discussing Christianity, Baha'i, Paganism, etc.

The site you posted said this - "Though a Jew would be forbidden from maintaining a sh*tuf theology, ..."

The article is about dealing with Christians whom believe in trinity.

"Conservative Rabbi Louis Jacobs took a more conciliatory approach:

Christian thinkers frequently assert that Jewish polemics against trinitarianism are based on an inadequate understanding of what the doctrine really means. It is no doubt true that crude attacks on Christianity as tritheism are unfounded (tritheism is, in fact, heresy from the Christian point of view) and there are subtleties in the doctrine which Christians have tried to uncover. But the fact remains that all Jewish thinkers have rejected trinitarianism as Judaism understands it"


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savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Proverbs 3:5 (ESV Strong's) 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not "rely on or derive support from" your own understanding.

Why is that so difficult for you to understand? Why must you make the Bible out to be wrong, but you are right?
Are you kidding me? OWN has been added. I didn't make that up.
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
On understand do not lean [period!]

What is wrong with leaning on Jehovah instead of leaning on [anyone's] understanding?

The people who thought they heard from Jehovah wrote what they believed it was about. To lean on what they wrote is leaning on UNDERSTANDING. Proverbs 3:5 is saying don't do it.
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
You don't even realize how ignorant that sounds, do you? Are we not to UNDERSTAND the word of God? Did not God APPOINT teachers in the church? But, according to YOU we should not lean on THEIR understanding, OK?
I do not know why you are making it about understanding. Understanding isn't what is being warned against. LEANING is the warning.



And you want us to lean on YOUR understanding, OK?
I don't want you to lean.
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Anybody? If 'own' is supposed to be there at Proverbs 3:5 and it isn't about understanding, then, whose understanding is it OK to lean on?
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Leaning leads to acting out what you think you understand.
Also, a person's understanding of God, God's Word, righteousness, and judgment should be subject to growth. If you lean on any of it you discourage its growth.

Actually, I am not aware of ever having been teaching anyone what to believe in.
I believe I am just telling what is wrong with what you trust is the truth.
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
So, you're LEANING on YOUR understanding of what you believe to be the truth, OK?
I am not leaning on my understanding. I can SEE it.

See how you can't change your mind even though the evidence is right in front of you?
Now, explain it to me your way and if you can make sense of it, I can change my mind.
Tell me how I can see the word understand (it was written) as "your own" understanding.

Explain it to me!

Also, explain to me that to lean is not the warning there.
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
So, you're LEANING on YOUR understanding of what you believe to be the truth, OK?
Reporting what a person believes to be right and reporting what a person believes to be wrong are not the same. The Bible is reporting what some people believe to be right and people lean on it.

I am reporting that the Bible actually is warning those people not to do that.

See?

Do this.
Don't do this.

Same?

Or different?
 

Ingledsva

HEATHEN ALASKAN
On understand do not lean [period!]

What is wrong with leaning on Jehovah instead of leaning on [anyone's] understanding?

The people who thought they heard from Jehovah wrote what they believed it was about. To lean on what they wrote is leaning on UNDERSTANDING. Proverbs 3:5 is saying don't do it.

I think as an English sentence it needs some tweaking.

Perhaps one of our Jewish members will give us their translation?

When I looked at it, and thought about how to put it into an English sentence, I came up with something like -

Pro 3:5 Strive for refuge in/trust in YHVH with your whole being/intellect, and (thus) unto understanding/wisdom, rather than relying on your propensities/predilections.

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djhwoodwerks

Well-Known Member
I am not leaning on my understanding. I can SEE it.

You can play with the words all you like, it doesn't change the fact that it is YOUR understanding that Proverbs 3:5 is WRONG, right? Or, can you also work on a gasoline engine just by SEEING it, without UNDERSTANDING how it works?


I am reporting that the Bible actually is warning those people not to do that.

You are reporting, YOUR understanding of what the Bible actually is warning!
 
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