{"id":96,"date":"2013-11-04T20:23:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T04:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ask-james.com\/wordpress1\/?p=96"},"modified":"2013-11-04T20:23:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T04:23:19","slug":"a-different-reading-of-tanach-stage-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ask-james.com\/wordpress1\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"“A Different Reading of Tanach Stage 1”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Different Reading of Tanach Stage 1<\/a><\/h3>\n

Originally posted March 13, 2009, Friday.<\/p>\n

During the\u00a0story of creation, each thing(s) that is made is examined, found(known or seen) to be good(correct) before that day\u2019s work is finished. Except when the LORD made man(the gardener), formed from the dirt by the LORD who caused HIS breath to be in the man.(Hence- \u201cLeviticus 11:45 For I am the LORD that brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God:\u00a0ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.\u201d OR \u201cLeviticus 19:2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them,\u00a0Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.\u201d ) Man is known to be less than GOOD, but man was created in the image of God and given the responsibility to Choose. The choice is, to do what God said, or to disregard what God said.<\/p>\n

From then until now, each of us is tested. This is always to see whether or not we will chose wisely. Adam and Eve are the first testees.<\/p>\n

The First\u00a0Test\u00a0\u2013A tree in the middle of the garden, God said \u201cGenesis 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou may freely eat: Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eat thereof thou shalt surely die.\u201d(King James Translation, although the 1917 version of Jewish Publishing Society identical)<\/p>\n

The Tools\u00a0\u2013The man\u2019s\u00a0helper(Eve), the tree and the snake.(side note: the man and the animals could talk to each other, then.)<\/p>\n

The Result\u00a0\u2013The man did eat \u2013a death does happen, but God\u2019s charge is more subtle than \u201ceating from the tree\u201d. The charge is that the man heeded her(Eve) words when God told him(Adam) something else. The ground is cursed now. \u201cGenesis 3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because you hast hearkened unto the\u00a0voice\u00a0of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You shalt not eat of it: cursed [is] the ground for your sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life\u201d<\/p>\n

There are two sins for Adam, first he did eat of the tree. Second and more important for US, he chose not to heed the word of God. In our\u00a0defense(today\u2019s time), God moved through the Garden and spoke with mankind, so Adam had\u00a0first hand\u00a0knowledge of God and God\u2019s word. And he still fell on his face, we must seek God and strive diligently to understand His Law.<\/p>\n

From that point forward, Mankind continues the on a down hill path, with very few exceptions. One of the exception is Enoch, who is the first that does not die.(Another interesting topic for discussion.)<\/p>\n

Breaking here!<\/p>\n

Shalom,
\nJames Jeffries<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Different Reading of Tanach Stage 1 <\/p>\n

Originally posted March 13, 2009, Friday.<\/p>\n

During the story of creation, each thing(s) that is made is examined, found(known or seen) to be good(correct) before that day\u2019s work is finished. Except when the LORD made man(the gardener), formed from the dirt by the LORD who caused HIS breath to be in the man.(Hence- \u201cLeviticus 11:45 For I am the LORD that brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.\u201d OR \u201cLeviticus 19:2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ask-james.com\/wordpress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ask-james.com\/wordpress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ask-james.com\/wordpress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ask-james.com\/wordpress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ask-james.com\/wordpress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ask-james.com\/wordpress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"http:\/\/ask-james.com\/wordpress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ask-james.com\/wordpress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ask-james.com\/wordpress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ask-james.com\/wordpress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}