premjan

It corresponds to lunar phases.

Sheshbazzar

No wonder then that you might think Hebrew is a mysterious language- it being a mystery to you.
One might wonder on what basis you are qualified to make observations, judgments, and pronouncements about a foreign language that you really know nothing about.
You are only revealing that you hold an uneducated and superstitious view of the Hebrew language, one that is not at all based upon your knowledge of the subject, but rather upon your ignorance.

Why would you be amazed that Christians don't speak Hebrew?

You are aware that the New Testement was composed in the Greek language, and is based upon the readings of the Greek language Septuagint (LXX) Bible?

Why, if this is so, (and it -can- be demonstrated) would foreign and non-Hebrew Christians be motivated by anything other than curiosity, to learn to read and speak Hebrew, after having recieved their inspired Scriptures, their beliefs, and their gift of The Holy Spirit, through the GREEK writings and language, or through the beliefe of the translations thereof?

You state that "their lord never spoke latin", and although many here certainly will agree that "their lord never spoke" ,

You are again making a pronouncement about something you that really have no way of knowing, and possess no real knowledge of.
You were not there, and even if you had been, you lack the knowledge of the languages to know with any certainty what languages he might be speaking in even if you had heard him speaking.
IF he lived, he may as well have spoken in every language known to man- after all, it would be no bigger miracle than most of the other miracles that are attributed to him.
And on The Day of Pentecost, it is related, that his underlings and servants recieved this gift. Is then the lowly servant greater than his Master?
When The LORD speaks to people today, (does He at all speak to you Joseph?) does He only speak to them in Hebrew? in "mysterious" and foreign words that they cannot understand?
Is this how your LORD speaks and reveals His will and ways to you today Joseph?

כל־ערום יעשה בדעת וכסיל יפרש אולת׃

You may not understand, but the writer thereof, and all that can read it, can well consider this matter.

fatpie42

It won't be uniquely Hebrew in origin then.

premjan

That it certainly isn't.

Johnny Skeptic

What "other sources" are you referring to, and where they get their information from?

Were the extrabiblical sources "written by people there at the time or nearly so"?

IamJoseph

Because I've followed this language's history - and it does not follow the normative thread of other languages. The Hebrew alphabetical books is an anomoly being th first of its kind - when there were a host of earlier and more advanced nations and languages around.


This is more than 15 years old, and may not acknowledge some new discoveries, but it makes a reasonabe overall point:
Because European christianity shuns anything of connectivity of the Hebrew, grotesquely inculcating a blonde Norwegian greek/aramaic doll like figure to represent jews, desecrating terms like passover for last supper, using a Latin name for Jesus, and whole bunch of etc, etc's. A theology's first obligation is honesty - which means correct sourcings and no vital omissions or distortions.
My knowledge of history says if Jesus existed - he would have won all the Jewish ritual garb supposedly fullfilled away by the Gospelians. Someone's telling fibs - and the reasons for using Latin and greek does not cut it. :huh:

IamJoseph

I believe the word certainly would only apply if you put up an earlier record of the day and week usage. :wave:

Sheshbazzar

Did the LORD talk with you in Hebrew today Joseph?

If He had, He would have warned you against the swallowing of such superstitious garbage that has so long been passed off upon the ignorant as being knowledge.

If you had any genuine the love of the truth, you would be a wee-bit more skeptical, and would thoroughly investigate extreme claims made about things that you know yourself to be ignorant of, before repeating them, and proclaiming them as being true.

Ignorance, and superstition Joseph, are dark forces that enslave men's minds.
The Truth would set you free, and you would be free indeed; service to יהוה that is true, is not through subjugation and continued enslavement to men's ancient lies.

TRUTH, that is true indeed, is not, and never was those old and hokey fairy tales that men made up, and wrote down in old books, for their own political advantage and purposes, putting their words into the mouth of their Elohim.
Elohim did NOT speak them, neither did Moshe at all write them.
But as always, it has pleased men to write lies, and to profess to believe those lies that men have written.
Generation to generation false prophets and false teachers have multiplied their lies against The Truth, saying; "The LORD has said, The LORD has said", when He has not spoken.
IF you really loved יהוה אלהים with all of your heart, and with all of your mind, and with all of your strength, you would learn through these fabricated and foolish tales, to seek, and to love Truth for the sake of it being the truth.
Ah Joseph, if only you would understand the meaning of that faith which was of Abraham, which was not drawn from books, nor through the persuasions of men, but was alive and active in the heart, and in the mind of such one as reasoned with יהוה his אלהים face to face. (the tale must be, to convey the greater Truth)

I see a very sad thing here, that you write so very much, revealing that you have not been praying so very much from the heart unto יהוה אלהים .

As for me, for the sake of the Truth, I am here but an ass in the way,
and why at all should any wise and prudent prophet ever hearken to words of a dumb ass?
ששבצר עבד יהוה

premjan

OK the notion of Sabbath is definitely Jewish, but the Chinese, Japanese and Indians all used seven day weeks I doubt all of them borrowed it from the Jews.

jon-eli

They all borrowed it from the night sky. Perhaps the Sabbath has its roots in astronomy, too?