Friday, February 16, 2007
I was watching a show on the History Channel today, and it was about how the Bible was written. They were interviewing a number of Rabbis from different universities and one Rabbis made an inertesting statement. He said that about 25 percent of words in the Old Testement, the orginal meaning of the word is lost. So that means that the scholars who translated the Bible were making their best guess at what the word meant.
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I have not heard that before - but as I have watched History Channel shows on bible stuff, I have been disappointed by who they interview. They are usually liberal in their theology and are more critical, beyond reason, of the Bible.
Every year, in St. Louis, I think, they have what is called The Jesus Seminar. A bunch of "religious scholars" come together and they decide what Jesus did and didn't do. They say this miracle happened and this one didn't.
Just like there are scholarly scientists that believe in the evolutionary beginning of the universe and scholarly scientist that don't. They both have their evidence to prove their positions and disprove their opposition.
I guess it just comes down to what you believe or what you think you believe or what you want to believe or what you don't want to believe.
These were Jewish Rabbis that were interviewed. It is their book. Am I not to believe them?
There are Jewish rabbis that believe that Jesus is the Messiah and there are some that are still looking for the Messiah of the Bible to come.
That is my point - who are you going to believe? Who are you going to line yourself up with. There are two sides to every pancake.
With the Bible, I choose to believe that God inspired Man to write it and He is big enough to protect it through the ages and what I have in my hand is what He wants me to read and know about Him.
I guess I can't prove my faith with empiracal evidence but I don't need to because I know what He has done for me. That is my empiracal evidence. I can see and know what He has done for me.
It comes down to a person choosing what they want to believe.
It just seems funny that the creater of the universe would let 25% of the Old Testemant be ambigous that is suppost to represent His nature and His communication to mankind. Seems illogical to me.
I do not understand the connection you are making with Jesus, and Jewish Rabbis. What does that have to do with losing the meaning of words?
There are those rabbis that don't believe that Jesus is the Messiah, therefore they are going to have a skeptical viewpoint. There are going to be those scholars/ rabbis/ scientists / archeologists that either believe in the authenticity of the Bible or they don't believe it. With that as their foundation, they are going to work to prove or disprove their viewpoint.
The programs that I have watched on History Channel or National Geographic tend to come from those universities that are liberal in their theology - therefore what they say is going to slant away from the authenticity of what they are commenting on. I guess I am aware of those different slants / opinions / foundations - whatever you want to call them.
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