Hello 37818,
Here is the final response to your post #222 on the "Derail from Orthodox Anathema Service on Christology" thread...
The LXX is what the Jews, Jesus' disciples and the early church used. The LXX is the scriptures that the NT writers used as everybody, Jew or Christian with a meagre religious education will tell you!
An aside: By Jesus time Hebrew was basically lost. Outside of the temple few could read it, next to nobody spoke it and even in the temple next to no one understood it. That is why in the Jewish services of the time, a reading of the Hebrew was explained by a reading from the Aramaic Targums.
Nice try at avoidance. The issue is that in your "innocence" you made a huge thing about Jesus using the phrase "ego eimi" (english: I am). We both know you thought this was a chest beater "got him" but unfortunately for you and a lot of Sunday school evangelists, Jesus uses "ego eimi" in its common meaning "I am [insert predicate]", it has no other signification. In the Hebrew of Exodos 3:14 YHWH says "Ehyeh asher Ehyeh" and tells Moses to tell the Israelites that his name is "Ehyeh" In the Greek of the LXX this is translated "ego eimi ho on" (english: I am the being or I am the existent one) and God's name is given as "ho on" (english: the being or the existent one). So if Jesus is going to claim to be YHWH as you seem to want, then he wouldn't be using "ego eimi", but "ho on" or more particularly "ego eimi ho on".
In John 8:58-59 when those that had come to believe he was the Messiah wanted to stone him (John 8:30 the last referents in John 8), Jesus had just declared that he had existed since before Abraham was born, which harkens back to John 8:40. Which if you read Gen 18. Jesus' claim is self evident, for the man Abraham saw, Abraham identified as YHWH.
Always best to read and follow scripture and take the direct approach rather than come up with stupidities that can't be supported. Which is why the link between Ex 3:14 & the "I am" was thrown out the window decades ago, many Biblical scholars now link the "I am" to a text in Isaiah.
Now why would he do that and not reveal himself as the Messiah to John? As I keep telling you, read the scriptures. Jesus never revealed himself as the Messiah to any Jew including the disciples. He did hint at it to the blind man he had healed, and he told the Samaritan woman directly that he was the awaited Messiah. As for A.Peter's realisation, Jesus told Peter God the Father had revealed it to him.
Be careful how you read this verse. There is only one person speaking, that is YHWH, and he speaks as the ultimate King of Israel, the redeemer of Israel and the commander of Israel's armies.
Interestingly, the Hebrew word translated "beside" could just as easily be rendered "without" thus we could read "without me [there is] no God", which fits the OT very nicely.
Then how come you keep insisting the Son is unbegotten just like his Father? But putting your silliness aside the "first and the last" is a direct reference to what precedes eg: there is no other King, redeemer or general that you have ever had or will have (cp. David's census of the Israelites. He thought his victories were from his and his armies prowess. So God chastened all of his kingdom).
He says the same at Rev 21:6 The beginning and end of what? The first and last of what? You might want to think upon Rev 21:1 to start getting some real answers. as for 22:13 have a read of Rev 22:12,14.
I would have been more inclined to use Rev 1:8.
Matthew Henry in his commentary has this to say "...God the Father, which may be taken either essentially, for God as God, or personally, for the first person in the ever-blessed Trinity, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; and he is described as the Jehovah who is, and who was, and who is to come, eternal, unchangeable, the same to the Old-Testament church which was, and to the New-Testament church which is, and who will be the same to the church triumphant which is to come."
Matthew Henry makes the observation that in vs 4-8 we have a progression: The Spirit, the Son and then the Father. In vs5 it says that "[Jesus has] made us to be a kingdom, to be priests unto his God and Father; to [the Father] be the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen".
Now what do you make of that?
I don't know how many times I have to say it but once again I'll say it and hopefully you remember what I say: I accept that the memra of YHWH=the Word of God=the angel of his presence=the angel of YHWH=the Son of God, was the God of the Israelites. So I'd expect to find equivalent scriptures in the OT & NT that have reference to his earthly function.
Here is the final response to your post #222 on the "Derail from Orthodox Anathema Service on Christology" thread...
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An aside: By Jesus time Hebrew was basically lost. Outside of the temple few could read it, next to nobody spoke it and even in the temple next to no one understood it. That is why in the Jewish services of the time, a reading of the Hebrew was explained by a reading from the Aramaic Targums.
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In John 8:58-59 when those that had come to believe he was the Messiah wanted to stone him (John 8:30 the last referents in John 8), Jesus had just declared that he had existed since before Abraham was born, which harkens back to John 8:40. Which if you read Gen 18. Jesus' claim is self evident, for the man Abraham saw, Abraham identified as YHWH.
Always best to read and follow scripture and take the direct approach rather than come up with stupidities that can't be supported. Which is why the link between Ex 3:14 & the "I am" was thrown out the window decades ago, many Biblical scholars now link the "I am" to a text in Isaiah.
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Interestingly, the Hebrew word translated "beside" could just as easily be rendered "without" thus we could read "without me [there is] no God", which fits the OT very nicely.
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I would have been more inclined to use Rev 1:8.
Matthew Henry in his commentary has this to say "...God the Father, which may be taken either essentially, for God as God, or personally, for the first person in the ever-blessed Trinity, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; and he is described as the Jehovah who is, and who was, and who is to come, eternal, unchangeable, the same to the Old-Testament church which was, and to the New-Testament church which is, and who will be the same to the church triumphant which is to come."
Matthew Henry makes the observation that in vs 4-8 we have a progression: The Spirit, the Son and then the Father. In vs5 it says that "[Jesus has] made us to be a kingdom, to be priests unto his God and Father; to [the Father] be the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen".
Now what do you make of that?
I don't know how many times I have to say it but once again I'll say it and hopefully you remember what I say: I accept that the memra of YHWH=the Word of God=the angel of his presence=the angel of YHWH=the Son of God, was the God of the Israelites. So I'd expect to find equivalent scriptures in the OT & NT that have reference to his earthly function.
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