The Messiah IS YHWH ---> Proven

[PM Saunders]

You said this so much better than me all though the last things you said is basically what I was hoping to get across. Yay! I feel like I actually know what I am talking about!!! <!-- s:bigups: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/bigups.gif" alt=":bigups:" title="Big Ups" /><!-- s:bigups: -->

This whole 2?-book inspired canon thing is quite a foreign concept to the eastern mind.

In our tradition we have the Gospels, Acts and Epistles. In that order, just like we have the Torah, Neviim and Kethubim of the Jewish synagogue.

In our "canon", if we must refer to one, we have in the beginning the Gospel of Matthew which was written to the Hebrew nation. And at the end we have the Epistle to the Hebrews which was also written to the Hebrew nation. So in the beginning and in the end the message was directed to His people as He promised in the prophets and while He was among us....and this prophecy was fulfilled and the ministry to them complete.

+Shamasha

I understand what you mean. I am still coming out of a typical Western way of Christian thinking. Much of the terminology and thought patterns are still there in me. I "know" and actually agree with the Eastern way of viewing the scriptures often make the mistake of falling back on old habits. I still have complete agreement with you. You are just better explaining it than I. <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/happy.gif" alt="" title="Happy" /><!-- s --> My apologies for muddying up the points I was attempting (but failing) to get across. <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/blush.gif" alt="" title="Blush" /><!-- s -->