#hebrew scriptures

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“I have become a stranger in a strange land.” ~ Exodus 2:22

(Paul Klee, “The Man with Tears”, 1923)

[wellsbering]

king saul ordering his men to kill david because he is jealous that david has found favor with the Lord:

[vinegartoteeth]

Hagar in the desert

- François-Joseph Navez

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The Trinity in the Hebrew Bible

By Author Eli Kittim

Despite the misleading objections of Judaism and Islam to the Christian concept of the Trinity, there is compelling evidence that a multiplicity of divine persons exists in the Hebrew Bible, as we find in Prov. 30.3-4, Gen. 35.1-7, as well as in Gen. 31.10-13, in which the Angel of the Lord is identified as God, no less! Note also the multi-personal God in Eccles. 12:1 (YLT):

“Remember also thy Creators in days of thy youth.”

Similarly, there are 2 YHWHs in Genesis 19.24 in the Hebrew text:

“Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.”

There are actually 2 persons called YHWH in the above verse. One YHWH is on the earth, standing nearby Sodom and Gomorrah. The other YHWH is in the heavens. It is reminiscent of the two Lords in Psalm 110.1:

“The LORD says to my Lord: ‘Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.' “

In another mysterious passage, the creator of heaven and earth is speaking and surprisingly ends his speech by saying, “the Lord God has sent me." Isaiah 48.12--16 reads:

“Listen to me, O Jacob,  and Israel, whom I called: I am He; I am the first,  and I am the last. My hand laid the foundation of the earth,  and my right hand spread out the heavens;

when I summon them,  they stand at attention.

Assemble, all of you, and hear!  Who among them has declared these things?

The Lord loves him;  he shall perform his purpose on Babylon,  and his arm shall be against the Chaldeans.

I, even I, have spoken and called him,  I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.

Draw near to me, hear this!  From the beginning I have not spoken in secret,  from the time it came to be I have been there.

And now the Lord God has sent me and his spirit.”

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While critics of the Triune God use Deut. 6:4 (The Shema) as a declaration of monotheism, this verse may also refer to a plurality of divine persons within the singular Godhead. The verse essentially reads:

Hear Israel, Yahweh Elohenu Yahweh is one.

It Mentions God 3 times and then declares that he [is] one (echad). Besides mentioning God 3 times, the verse also uses the plural form ĕ·lō·hê·nū to suggest numerically more than one person. It’s tantamount to saying, Israel, pay attention to my declaration about our God: one plus one plus one equals one (or 3 in 1)! Or, Yahweh, Elohenu, Yahweh = One (monotheism)! Elohenu is a noun - masculine plural construct - first person common plural.

Moreover, notice that Yahweh is not called qadosh (singular for ‘holy’) but qə·ḏō·šîm (plural) in Joshua 24.19 as well as in Prov. 9.10:

“The commencement of wisdom is the fear of Jehovah, And a knowledge of the Holy Ones is understanding.”

Hence the plurality in the meaning of the Hebrew term for God, which is “Elohim" (Gen. 1.1), not to mention the multiplicity of divine persons in Gen. 1.26, "Let US make man in OUR image" (emphasis added).

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As for the distinction of the third person of the Trinity, namely, the Holy Spirit, besides 2 Sam. 23.2-3, read Isaiah 63.10-11:

“But they rebelled and grieved his holy spirit; therefore he became their enemy; he himself fought against them. Then they remembered the days of old, of Moses his servant. Where is the one who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is the one who put within them his Holy Spirit . . . ?”

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Conclusion

Thus, the above-mentioned verses in the Hebrew Scriptures clearly support the theological concept of a multi-personal God——that is to say, a plurality of persons within the singular Godhead, otherwise known as the Trinity, which comprises three persons but one being: One God, yet three coeternal, consubstantial persons (hypostases). These three persons are said to be distinct, yet are nevertheless one "substance, essence or nature" (homoousios).

In other words, the Hebrew Scriptures further substantiate the theological notion of the triune God.

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does anyone know if there’s evidence that the order of the New Testament was patterned after the Tanakh? from a purely literary perspective it makes sense: both begin with five books that are the most essential (the Torah and the Gospels+Acts), followed by the Prophets and Paul respectively, followed by writings that are highly regarded, but not generally as highly as what comes before.

but in terms of chronology, I’m not sure it works. wiki doesn’t know for sure when the Tanakh was ordered, giving a range that extends a few hundred years before and after 1 C.E. and the Septuagint separates the Hebrew and Greek scriptures in a way that isn’t like the Tanakh’s or the Old Testament, which inclines me to think the Tanakh was ordered afterwards and therefore both texts would have been ordered at roughly the same time (i.e. after Christians had split off from Jews)

[faithroots74]

In what order do you read the Old Testament?

If you pick up a Bible, you’ll find that it’s divided into two sections, the Old Testament and the New Testament.  Now, there are pros and cons to those labels.  They arose fairly early in church history to distinguish the part of Scripture that particularly focused on the New Covenant (later referred to as Testament), from those that came when God’s people were under the Mosaic Covenant. …

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Considering Psalms, 1

(Image credit – King David – Wikipedia) If you are a Bible-reader, or aspire to be one, you will encounter the Book of Psalms, the longest book in the Bible. This book is a collection of 150 poems, or hymns, which were originally set to music as accompaniment to Tabernacle and Temple worship in ancient Israel. They were written in Hebrew over a period of several centuries and finally collected…

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The Resurrection in the Hebrew Scriptures [From The Anti Mythological Redemption (Message 2385)]

The Resurrection in the Hebrew Scriptures [From The Anti Mythological Redemption (Message 2385)]

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