Do We ‘Resemble’ God?
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Do We ‘Resemble’ God?
A video version of my essay showing mistranslations in Genesis and Exodus that blur or erase our closeness to our Creator(resending with correct links)
MAY 29, 2023
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Enjoy this Memorial Day presentation on video of my essay about our resemblance to God, as the original Hebrew has it in the Hebrew Bible’s Genesis, and about God’s in-person manifestation to thousands of people at once, at the foot of Mt Sinai, as the original Exodus 19-20 surprisingly (to me) recounts. (Just one spoiler alert: He may not actually have said “I am a jealous God” but rather “I am a zealous God”). This set of explorations below adds more evidence to my argument in my readings from the Hebrew Bible and the Geneva Bible in general, that subsequent translations, sects and denominations, both Jewish and Christian, whether intentionally or not, elided God’s interest in direct communion with ordinary people - and actually blurred His in-the-original likable, relatable, human-like character into being a character presented as more distant, irrational, punitive and impenetrable. The latter does not actually exist in the original text. Have four hundred years of theology damaged people’s understanding of their actual closeness to YHWH, and of His to us, in the story of the Bible itself, and has this alienation been based on numerous later distortions of the text?
Do We ‘Resemble’ God?
Your pursuit of this truth makes you a threat to the evil one (even more than you’ve been before). It’s not surprising he attacked you physically. Jehova rapha Naomi
You are spot on Dr Wolfe.
Keep up the good work. We were made in His image and one of the reasons He sent his son to earth was to correct the misconception His own people had about Him.
They had come to believe that He was a harsh God only interested in their sacrifices and unapproachable.
Jesus made claims that He only spoke the words that his “father” had given him and he told the disciple Phillip that when you look at him you see the father.
All the attributes of a good father is what Yahweh is actually like.
He lives his children deeply and both protects and provides for them. You are correct when you point out that his commands are for out good, just like our parents set rules for us growing up...for our own good.
Read the book of Hosea if you really want to see how badly the nation of Israeli broke His heart.
It makes me cry when I read it.