General Discussion The Gospel in the Names from Adam to Noah

[GiLGiJ]

Have you heard this one? If you translate the 10 names from Adam to Noah, it makes a sentence about Christ's great saving work.

The sentence is: Man is appointed mortal sorrow, but the blessed God comes down revealing that His death shall bring the despairing comfort.

Isn't that fabulous!?

 

[lynnmosher]

Yes! I've seen it and it's so cool! God is so awesome!

 

[Alley]

Have you heard this one? If you translate the 10 names from Adam to Noah, it makes a sentence about Christ's great saving work.

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Neat! Which words in the sentence is each name?

 

[lynnmosher]

Here ya go, Alley!

 

[quietspirit]

Thank you, @GiLGiJ, for sharing this bit of information. Because of you, I learned something today.

 

[Amosathar]

I watched a video that talked about the first word of the Bible in Hebrew, which is "bereishit" בְּרֵאשִׁית (In the beginning). Apparently, the Hebrew language is also a pictograph language that has assigned an image to each letter to help us more deeply understand a truth or concept God wishes to communicate. So the pictograms of this first word essentially says "The Son of God is willingly destroyed by the work of his own hand on a cross"

While I found this fascinating, I'm not claiming this is truth because I'm no Hebrew scholar and many scholars disagree that drawing meanings from the pictograms is theologically sound as the same process could be used to prove false teaching, it is still very interesting to see and we may never know if God did in fact bury deeper hidden meanings in his Word.

The video that examines the pictograms and explains their meanings

Scholar looking at the claims that Jesus appears in the first two words of the Bible

 

[GiLGiJ]

I watched a video that talked about the first word of the Bible in Hebrew, which is "bereishit" בְּרֵאשִׁית (In the beginning). Apparently, the Hebrew language is also a pictograph language that has assigned an image to each letter to help us more deeply understand a truth or concept God wishes to communicate. So the pictograms of this first word essentially says "The Son of God is willingly destroyed by the work of his own hand on a cross"

While I found this fascinating, I'm not claiming this is truth because I'm no Hebrew scholar and many scholars disagree that drawing meanings from the pictograms is theologically sound as the same process could be used to prove false teaching, it is still very interesting to see and we may never know if God did in fact bury deeper hidden meanings in his Word.

The video that examines the pictograms and explains their meanings

Scholar looking at the claims that Jesus appears in the first two words of the Bible

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With a healthy dollop of skepticism, I enjoy these types of things. It's fascinating. Truth is better than fascination, though, and it's hard to verify some of these things myself to really know whether or not God is saying something in the Bible. You mentioned something about that, too. Perhaps it's the journey of looking into it and saying, "Yes, this makes a lot of sense to me", or "No, even though it appears so at first glance, there's just no evidence that it works out that way", or whatever we each end up thinking about those little journeys of ours, we are interacting with God's Word.

I wonder if putting separations between the letters into one-letter concepts, two-letter phrase concepts, three-, etc., could possibly be part of the meaning of 2 Timothy 2:15b, "Rightly dividing the Word of Truth". Maybe it's possible for some of these layered meanings to be real. Overall, if it agrees with the plain text of the Bible, then there's no reason to reject anything (we're free in that way), and if it's not found in the plain text of the Bible, then we should reject it, so that the plain text is still the definitive reference.

But if we do find something, how lovely that God let this Christian find it at this time. It's possible that He's talking directly to us by it.


:^D Thanks again for this one, @Amosathar.