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Will your idle talk reduce others to silence?
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
This is why I speak to them in parables:
"Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand."
In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
"You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving."
For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.
From an idea first proposed by Jean Astruc (1684-1766), Hegel, Graf, Wellhausen et al. developed the “JEDP Documentary Hypothesis†of higher criticism, which said that the early parts of the Old Testament couldn’t have been written during the times they described.
They based this on the belief that writing had not evolved until about 1000 BC.
The result was that the early books of the Bible were said to have been written by various unknown teachers during the Divided Kingdom era, beginning about 800 BC, and continued until after the Babylonian Exile. These books are said to have been compiled or redacted from several stories, or documents, each of which could be distinguished by the name used for God. The J-Document used the name Jehovah, the E-Document used Elohim, while the D and P documents were named for Deuteronomic and Priestly.
This teaching led many people to lose confidence in the Bible’s authenticity.
In fact, there has never been any trace of the “documents†that Hegel, Graf, Wellhausen et al. refer to (Jehovist, Elohist, Deuteronomic, and Priestly), and even in their day there had been some good archaeological finds that contradicted the very basis of their theory— that early writing was unknown. More recently, scholars and archaeologists have uncovered excellent proofs of the truth of the Bible’s historicity.
There have been complete libraries uncovered, and enough translations made to confirm Biblical events described in the lives of the patriarchs. Several of these libraries date from long before Abraham’s time. Excavations at Ebla, Mari, and Nuzi have all yielded much confirmation of Old Testament history. The Mari archives contained actual names used in the Bible—Peleg, Terah, Abram, Jacob, Laban, and others. These cannot be linked directly with Biblical characters, but they do show that these names were in use in those early days. The Nuzi archive had some 20,000 clay tablets; many were legal documents describing laws and customs of the land. These explain a number of Biblical incidents that used to seem strange to us, but they were simply the normal customs of that era.
THE TABLET THEORY
Many scholars have noticed that Genesis is divided into sections, separated by phrases that are translated “These are the generations of ... †The Hebrew word used for “generation†is toledoth, which means “history, especially family history ... the story of their origin.†Wiseman, op.cit., pg.62.
Wiseman took this quotation from the pioneer Hebrew lexicographer Gesenius. Most scholars have recognized that these “toledoth phrases†must be important, but they have been misled by assuming incorrectly that these are the introduction to the text that follows. (Several modern translations have even garbled these phrases.) This has led to serious questions, because in several cases they don’t seem to fit. For example, Genesis 37:2 begins, “These are the generations of Jacob. ...†But from that spot on, the text describes Joseph and his brothers, and almost nothing about Jacob, who was the central character in the previous section.However, Wiseman saw that the colophons in the ancient tablets always were at the end, not the beginning. He applied this idea to the toledoth phrases in Genesis, and found that in every case it suddenly made good sense. The text just before the phrase “These are the generations of ... †contained information about events that the man named in that phrase would have known about. That person would have been the logical one to write that part. In other words, each toledothphrase contains the name of the man who probably wrote the text preceding that phrase. Or, in still other words, the book of Genesis consists of a set of tablets, each of which was written by an actual eye-witness to the events described therein. These tablets were finally compiled by Moses.Enough archaeological confirmation has been found so that many historians now consider the Old Testament, at least that part after about the eleventh chapter of Genesis, to be historically correct.
Tablet #1 begins with the first verse of Genesis, and ends with the toledoth phrase in Gen.2:4a, “These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created.â€
Tablet #2 begins with the next part of Gen.2:4b, “In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, ...†The closing toledoth is in Gen.5:1a, “This is the book of the generations of Adam.â€
Tablet #3 begins with Gen.5:1b, “In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; ...â€
Tablet #4, which begins in Gen.6:9b, “Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, ...â€
Tablet #5 begins in Gen.10:1b, “Unto them were sons born after the flood.â€
Tablet #6 begins in Gen.11:10b, “Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:â€
Tablet #7 is much longer than those we’ve just discussed. It begins with Gen. 11:27b, “Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran, ...â€
Tablet #9, which begins in Gen. 25:19b, “Abraham begat Isaac: And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, ...â€
Sub-Tablet #8 (Gen.25:12 to 25:18) is structured differently than the others. It lists the sons of Ishmael, and where they lived.
Sub-Tablet #10 (occupying all of Gen. 36) is a short tablet from Jacob’s brother Esau, merged into Jacob’s story.
The last tablet, Tablet #11, of Genesis begins in Gen. 37:2b, “Joseph, being seventeen years old, ...â€
http://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2010/10/11/the-tablet-theory-of-genesis-authorship.aspx
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by RichardParkerYou're funny Bi, but you're gonna get yourself targeted online someday. I pray to Allah for your safety, man. ;)
Thank you RP, I know you're a friend to Islam and Hindus. "What hurts is not the criticism of our enemies, but rather the silence of our friends." Allahu Akbar
Friend deceives friend, and no one speaks the truth.
They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning.
"Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves." - says The Most High, The Almighty, The Lord, I AM, our Father in Heaven, GOD.
"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." said Jesus.
Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.
Will you speak wickedly on God's behalf? Will you speak deceitfully for him?
Will your idle talk reduce others to silence?
Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
This is what the LORD says: "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, 'We will not walk in it.'
If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer.
Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140211084009.htm
