Israel II: Beyond the Basics (Israel Basics Book 2)

So when God sees the trees and birds and animals and calls them good, He’s not saying, “Thumbs up, Self, that’s really nice work!” He is saying “This is functional and in order as I designed it.” Conversely, when God says something is evil, He is not saying it is demonic; He is saying it is dysfunctional or out of order. It is still working, but it

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Christianity seeks to understand the incomprehensible God in concrete, yet abstract, terms. But, “to the Jewish mind, the understanding of God is not achieved by referring (in) a Greek way to timeless qualities of Supreme Being, to ideas of goodness and perfection, but rather by sensing the living acts of His concern, to His dynamic attentiveness t

Greek thinking imparts knowledge; Hebrew thinking imparts function. Therefore when God gave us His Word, it was not to impart knowledge, it was to impart function! God, our Creator, was telling us, “Here is how life is to function.”

The word “created” from Genesis 1:1, is in Hebrew “bara.” “God bara the heavens and earth” has an alternate meaning that tends to get left behind, and it is much more functional in its description. Bara literally means “to make fat” or “to fill something” (Strong’s #1254a and 1254b).1 Our translation of the word “created” is a Greek-minded word whi

The function of Torah is to hit the mark (the target of a person’s heart). The opposite of hitting the mark, is missing the mark. That has a Hebrew word too, hata. Hata is often translated into English as the word sin. So sin is “missing the mark.”

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For example, a Greek concept of a pen is “something about 7 to 8 inches long, made from plastic, sometimes they have lids, and ink comes out one end.” A Hebraic description of a pen is “something you write with.” See the difference between Greek appearance and Hebrew function in the description?