Subject: Are new worship songs scripturally OK? |
Bible Note: Ah but you've given me, now, two words. Two words with the same meaning. Were they both used in that verse? Can you give me an entire verse in Hebrew? Are you at all familiar with actually speaking it? Even if we are given the literal meaning of Hebrew words and phrases we can't know how they were used 2000 years ago. We must, once again, think about cultural differences. How the Holy Men who wrote the Word of God differed from a simple carpenter from Galilee. Americans and Australians both speak english. But cultural differences abound! If one is blue in America, it means one is depressed. If one is blue in Australia it means one has red hair. Our Holy Bible was not written by one person. It is the compiled works of many. How are we to have a concrete belief that when we come across the word Worship in our English translation of a Hebrew document that this particular bowing and prostration is what all these people meant? Even when we are guided by the Spirit, we still bring with us our cultural inheritance. Imagine if Jesus lived today. And Mark wrote that Jesus was bad!! 2000 years from now some innocent would read this and think Jesus evil. When Mark was only using a colloquialism of the times that mean WAY FANTASTIC!! Hugs, Lisa Jesus Freak |