09-01-2004, 07:20 AM
Anyway I can name others as well.
There a number of passages where Jesus seems rude, or bizzare. saying things like "let the dead mbury their dead", "you must hate you father and mother etc." And you know people get some distorted views of Jesus not to mention they sometimes think their is a Biblical basis for rudeness other than what might be necessary correcting obvious error.
I also see people have other false impressions of Jesus. I remember one Charismatic preaching a sermon, actually Rick Joyner. And he was taking about preaching. And how often soemthing thats truely spiritual will not fit the ideal pattern of what they teach you in seminary. Any way he mentioned "have you looked at the sermon on the mount? That is the most disjointed group of ideas ever! Apparently somone did not tell Jesus about the rules of homilectics".
Anyway that statement really shows an asopect of the error of observation. Joiner assumes that they way the English translation reads closely mirrors what Jesus actually spoke.
Anyway as Paul Younan and other pointed out this is false. What seems disjointed prose actually is not. The Beatitudes, the Lord's prayer etc. actually are quite poetic. They have rhyme and meter, and symmetry but we cannot appreciate this unless we read them in the Aramaic. So what is actually quite beautiful in the minds of the occidental seems "disjointed" and disorganized thinking.
Anyway in listing these various scriptures and how people have interpretted, and their importance in our world view, I hope you can begin to understand the importance of the PEshitta and PEshitto in understanding both Jesus and the apostles and the early church.
There a number of passages where Jesus seems rude, or bizzare. saying things like "let the dead mbury their dead", "you must hate you father and mother etc." And you know people get some distorted views of Jesus not to mention they sometimes think their is a Biblical basis for rudeness other than what might be necessary correcting obvious error.
I also see people have other false impressions of Jesus. I remember one Charismatic preaching a sermon, actually Rick Joyner. And he was taking about preaching. And how often soemthing thats truely spiritual will not fit the ideal pattern of what they teach you in seminary. Any way he mentioned "have you looked at the sermon on the mount? That is the most disjointed group of ideas ever! Apparently somone did not tell Jesus about the rules of homilectics".
Anyway that statement really shows an asopect of the error of observation. Joiner assumes that they way the English translation reads closely mirrors what Jesus actually spoke.
Anyway as Paul Younan and other pointed out this is false. What seems disjointed prose actually is not. The Beatitudes, the Lord's prayer etc. actually are quite poetic. They have rhyme and meter, and symmetry but we cannot appreciate this unless we read them in the Aramaic. So what is actually quite beautiful in the minds of the occidental seems "disjointed" and disorganized thinking.
Anyway in listing these various scriptures and how people have interpretted, and their importance in our world view, I hope you can begin to understand the importance of the PEshitta and PEshitto in understanding both Jesus and the apostles and the early church.