Lockman - Bible questions and answers

User Name: TMcCully
Registered:	11/25/12
Last post:	11/29/12
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I am a former software developer who realized the Holy Bible was alive in 1994, in ways that only the Creator and Maker of all things could do.

I am no expert. I have had no classes in Hebrew and only one lay class in Hermeneutics. I am only one who trusts how the Author of languages first uses His inspired words, far above what any human teaches about His words.

Since 2005 I have been developing a personal study about four inspired words in Genesis One, using the Strong's translating concordance at the "C" button of BlueLetterBible.Org. Those four inspired words have become traditionally translated in ways that confuse how God is originally using them. This confusion obscures why God alone is worthy of worship in Genesis One, which is meant to equip all mankind for facing the temptation to worship less.

For example the first proof God is good is described when He first uses His inspired name for that thing, in "God called the light (yom)". God is clearly telling us there that yom means the daylight.

We are supposed to THINK: what does God's provision of daylight mean about God Himself? For mankind, daylight is what reveals truth and what powers life. That makes daylight hope itself. So any message that treats God as deceptive or desiring death for someone cannot be trusted.

Those implications about God's provision of daylight are part of His first lesson why He alone is worthy of worship. They are why Adam and Eve should have realized that both Eve's statement about the garden command and the serpent's claims about God were blasphemously wrong.

The Author of languages first uses that second inspired word in Genesis 1:5b, and it affects how we understand God's word for daylight. That word has been misinterpreted as "evening" for a very long time indeed. According to Gen 1:2 no fading light of evening occurred before that unique morning when God provided daylight Gen 1:3.

Some questions have arisen because I am saying unfamiliar things here. I have no disagreement with Lockman's requirement for respect toward God's inspired words. I am in fact claiming that we should be trusting how the Author of languages first uses an inspired word, rather than human translations that seem to disagree with God.

I have no disagreement with the worship of Jesus the Messiah. The Living Word of God did the speaking in Genesis One, and it is the Living Word of God alone who therefore provided daylight that reveals truth and powers life, who is real Hope. It was the Living Word of God who provided wondrous good things out of that awful chaotic first night, which makes the pre-incarnate Messiah not only Wisdom in person, but God alongside the LORD as Proverbs 8 teaches.

In Christ, Tim

See http://www.TheTruthLover.Org. My initial Bible study will answer the questions I have there now concerning what God really means by yom and ereb.

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