Zsr1973
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sandy whitelinger said:Here is my thought in a nutshell. i don't speak or claim to understand Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek. Neither do I believe that those here who claim to have some understanding of original languages have a greater understanding of original languages or theology to be able to translate better than those who translated it in the first place.
It has been my observation that those who presently try to use original languages distort (either purposely or unwittingly) the plain English understanding.
I respect your faith in Christianity.
In terms of language, it is actually the english that has been distorted. Because you have faith in the finished english product that we call the bible today, even if you found that the true hebrew and greek story was different from what you believe, you would not accept it. the truth is that in the old kingdom, both men and deity received the same titles because both hebrews and early christians believed deities (or gods) were beings like us.
Adonai - Aramic/Hebrew: "My Master"
and Eloheem - Aramic/Hebrew: "these beings; gods"
were at some point used for humans as well as deitiy in the bible. So it is up to you to believe the translator when he made the choice in whether it refered to the creator or not. Men are not trustworthy (especially religious men), that is why many people look to the originals to see the true story for themselves. If your story does not match with the original story, someone has lied to you.
Elyon El (the Most High) is the only name I know that is excusive to "the Most High". He was introduced to Abram by melchizedec (the same one whose order jesus was known to have joined in the book of Hebrews) in genesis 14:19.
People do not realize that when the bible speaks of people meeting or talking to Eloh or Eloheem or Jehovah, it is speaking about angelic beings of different ranks who represent God in different manners. Think, why in Revelation, jesus' book that he gave to John, is it almost all about the actions of the angels and not God? It has always been the angels interacting with man. the devil had a fight with angels, not god, over humans. he is not God's enemy, he is our enemy. the problems in Christianity today are due to bad translations by men who simply didn't know the true stories.