Subject: "Seers" and how they saw |
Bible Note: OK, I was just following the first persons terminology, not necessarily an official Office as such. My focus was on the words Chozen and Ra'ah, both meaning seer. Nabi means prophet, from to speak. There was also a category chalam, for the dreamer and his dreams. Though the outside world of Old Testament times is not inspired, it can help give us a flavor for how people saw things. Of course, the Old Testament Seer did not function the same as the other "seers" of other religions. Since there were good prophets and evil prophets (like of Baal) and good dreamers and evil dreamers, good seers and evil seers, the world and the Bible had some reason for lumping those people into similar categories. Where the Bible is silent, I do not mind looking at other sources for a flavor idea. Still, I do not want to argue about a point that I was not trying to make such as offices. |