March 19, 1263 First significant concordane of the Bible

English: Page from the Dutsch Professorenbijbel ("Professors Bible"), a translation of the Latin Vulgate of the Books of the New Testament. This part, covering the Pentateuch, was published in 1904. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

March 19, 1263

Hugh of St. Cher, a Dominican, made the first significant concordance of the Bible. This was for the Latin Bible, the Vulgate. He is said to have had the help of 500 Dominican friars. The only other person known to have attempted to compile a Bible concordance before him was St. Anthony of Padua. Hugh's concordance only gave the Latin word but did not give any of the text around it. This made it crude by modern standards. All the same, it served as a basis for the work of men who soon came after him.

Bible chapters had not yet been broken into verses. In order to help scholars find words, Hugh broke each chapter into seven parts to which he gave letters of the alphabet.

The concordance was only one of three tools that Hugh gave the Dominicans. Each of them was needed to assist the order to meet their goal of preaching the Gospel. One of his other efforts was an attempt to correct the errors of the Vulgate. However, he did not know that Jerome had made the original translation and often turned down Jerome's comments in favor of the ideas of other writers. When the church learned that Jerome had actually made the Vulgate translation, Hugh's work lost all credibility.

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Donald Trump after declining numbers of people victimised for their religion managed to increase the numbers again

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According to an article from the National Review, the most reliable data on hate crimes comes from the FBI, which shows that the number of people victimized for their religion declined dramatically from 2010 to 2014: from 1,552 victims to 1,140 victims, or by 36 percent.

The number of victims of anti-Jewish bias declined similarly: from 1,039 to 648 victims, or by 38 percent. The FBI then records an uptick in 2015, to 1,402 total victims and 730 victims of anti-Jewish bias.

Since Donald Trump  heated up the crowd in 2016 many North Americans came to see a threat in other religious groups than their christians denominations. Not only immigrants and refugees became the bad guys. The hate speeches of Donald Trump took care that the KKK and far right fundamentalist evangelicals could find enough reasons to go against Jews.

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Discussie over zendingsbevel in Lutherbijbel

De voormalige Thüringse landsbisschop Christoph Kähler (Leipzig), die de revisie van Lutherbijbel leidde, stelt dat Luther bewust zo vertaald heeft zoals nu in de nieuwe Lutherbijbel is opgenomen, omdat mensen andere volken niet tot christenen kunnen maken.

In De Lutherse gemeenschap is er discussie ontstaan over de zendingsopdracht die Jezus heeft gegeven aan zijn volgers.

Het zendingsbevel in Mattheüs 28:19 in de vorig jaar opnieuw uitgegeven Lutherbijbel is niet goed weergegeven, zo vinden critici.

 

In de vertaling staat niet: 

„Gaat heen en maak alle volkeren tot discipelen”

, maar:

 „Gaat heen en leert alle volken.”

 Ds. Jochen Teuffel (Vöhringen/Iller) noemt het een vervalsing. Luther volgde hier niet de Griekse grondtekst maar de Latijnse Vulgaat. Het woord ”mateteuo” betekent meer dan leren en heeft betrekking op een betrokken levenshouding. 

Praying to see troubles in the proper perspective

I pray to see my troubles in the proper perspective.
I know that, as I have suffered, others have suffered and still suffer more.
I pray that I may help to relieve their pain. Amen

Real love releases hidden possibilities

Real love releases hidden possibilities.

...God is love.
He reveals deep and secret things, He knows what is in the darkness, and light dwells with Him.'
1 John 4:8 - Daniel 2:22t


Dear God give me the opportunity to share the agapè love with others around me and let me show them the Way to You

Even the Bible needed updating and upgrading

Throughout the centuries people their language changed and their use of names changed.

Dr. Michael S. Heiser is a scholar-in-residence for Faithlife, writes

Believe it or not, there is evidence that the Bible was updated. That may sound strange, but if you read closely, it’s undeniable. Take Genesis 14:14 as an illustration:

When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men . . . and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

Did you notice the problem? This is the time of Abram, a time before Moses and Joshua — before there was a promised land divided among the tribes of Israel. There wasn’t even an Israel yet. So what’s up with the reference to the land that belonged to the tribe of Dan?

If we plotted out the battle between Abram described in this verse on a map, with place names appropriate for Abram’s day, we’d see that the writer really meant that the enemy was pursued all the way to a place called Laish, not Dan.

Many Bible critics would call this an error, but it isn’t. 

Much later, in the days of Israel’s judges, Laish was renamed as Dan:

 “And they named the city Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor, who was born to Israel; but the name of the city was Laish at the first” (Judg 18:29). 

Evidently, an unnamed editor updated the text of Genesis 14:14 after the name change took place. The editor likely did this to make sure readers of his own day would understand the geography.

In other instances, an editor repurposed something already written in the Bible to make it preach to their community.

Psalm 51 is well known as a record of David’s repentance after his sin with Bathsheba and murder of Uriah. The psalm, though, ends by asking God to “do good to Zion” and with the command, “build up the walls of Jerusalem” (Psa 51:18–19). The walls of Jerusalem were not in need of repair until after God’s people were exiled, centuries after David lived. The editorial addition is a masterful literary stroke. Just as King David repented centuries before, an editor sought to move the exiles to national repentance. It was just the kind of example they needed.

Though it seems strange, the updating of Psalm 51:18–19 and Genesis 14:14 gives us an insight into the process of inspiration — a process that included providential editorial work.

Vrouwendag 8 maart 2017

Ook al mag er een tendens zijn dat veel West-Europese mannen vervrouwelijken, mag de vrouw zich nog steeds in het hoekje gedrongen voelen. Op veel plaatsen wordt de vrouw nog steeds als de mindere of minder bekwame aanschouwd. Toch zouden heel wat mannen moeten weten dat ze helemaal niet zonder die vrouw kunnen.
Is het omdat de man diep in zich nog steeds het gevoel heeft dat de mannin of 1ste vrouw hem een loer gebakken heeft dat bepaalde mannen nog steeds op wraak belust zijn en de vrouwen bekijken als een gevaarlijke verleider. 

De wereld acht het nodig om toch die vrouwen, al was het één maal per jaar, in de bloemen te zetten. Vandaag ziet men dan ook graag over heel de wereld een "vrouwendag".
Moet de vrouw zich daar mee tevreden stellen met hoogstens één keer per  jaar een schouderklopje te krijgen?

Vrouwen moesten in in onze patriarchale maatschappij de voorbije eeuwen sterk opkomen voor hun rechten op het gebied van arbeid en kiesrecht. Uiteindelijk hebben ze na een lange en harde strijd wel stemrecht gekregen en de twee wereldoorlogen hebben het er toe gebracht dat vrouwen opgeroepen werden om hun "manskracht" boven te halen. Alhoewel na de eerste wereldoorlog men graag de vrouw terug aan de hard wenste, lieten de vrouwen zich nu niet meer doen en boden weerwerk. Het zou echter nog vele jaren duren eer de vrouw echt meerdere kansen zou krijgen om voor een job te gaan studeren.

Heden kunnen wij op meerdere plaatsen een vijfvoud van vrouwen vinden in bepaalde jobs, maar opvallend is daarbij dat het meestal de minder betaalde plaatsen zijn die vrouwen toegereikt krijgen. Aan de verloning van de vrouw moet nog heel wat gedaan worden. Gelijkheid van kansen moet er zijn en gelijkheid van verloning voor het zelfde werk.

Vandaag is het weer zo ver dat men daar even extra aandacht voor vraagt. Om de mannen eens te laten voelen waar de vrouw staat werd er zelfs opgeroepen tot een vrouwenstaking. Moesten de vrouwen eens allemaal solidair zijn en op 8 maart 2017 eens helemaal niets doen, waar zouden de mannen dan staan? Economisch zal het misschien niet veel uitmaken. De industrie zal er ook niet veel van merken. De zorgsector zou vast en zeker in de zware problemen geraken, maar dat is juist de tak van onze gemeenschap waar de meeste mensen niet voor geïnteresseerd zijn, enkel die wel moet klaar staan voor hen als zij er beroep op willen doen.

Nog steeds kunnen wij veel grootspraak van mannen horen hoe zij de vrouw als seksobject hebben kunnen gebruiken. In plaats die mannen eens goed op hun plaats te zetten worden zij in vele kringen nog als 'ware mannen' of 'helden' bekeken.

Er is nog steeds een lange weg af te leggen .....

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Lenten Season and our minds and hearts the spiritual temple in which God seeks to live

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For many the Lenten Season has come for them to bring them thinking about life but also about death and about God. Let us hope there are enough people who want those 40 days serious to think about the essence of their being and about the essence of God. God wants to be found and people should look after him.

People should come to fully grasp the reality that our minds and hearts are the spiritual temple in which God seeks to live.
We must ask ourselves, what are the things we meditate upon?
Do we make ample time each day for this meditation?
It is vital that we are positive in reacting to this challenge – how utterly wonderful to have God in our very being, watching over us!

We therefore should see how important it is that we read God’s word every day.

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Preceding:

Lent, 40 days, meditation and repentance

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Find to read:

1. Adar 6, Matan Torah remembering the giving of Torah
2. Adar 7 Moshe’s review of the Torah contained in the Book of Deuteronomy
3. Statutes given unto us 
4. God-breathed prophetic words written torah and the mitzvot to teach us
5. Mishmash of a legal code but importance of mitzvah or commandments
6. Written by inspiration of God for our admonition, to whom it shall be imputed if they believe
7. Observing the commandments and becoming doers of the Word

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Lent, 40 days, meditation and repentance

Ashes imposed on the forehead of a Christian on Ash Wednesday. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

For several Christians Lent, East and West, begins with a supposition. They may feel they are broken beings in need of forgiveness. Whether it’s the eponymous ashes of ash Wednesday or the forsaking of meat, dairy, and everything else worth eating practised by others, the Lenten Season for them is intended to enjoin repentance among them. But repentance is something which has to come from deep in the heart. And repentance presupposes a need for forgiveness, for healing; in a word, it presupposes brokenness.

People want to go inward, to the very core of the cells of their body, where the complexity is so great, so unequalled, that their human brains are incapable of understanding that, either. For 40 days some people try to find time to think about life. They also want to go for transcendence. It starts with a recognition that we are whatever else we are – eternal beings. There is something that is about us that goes beyond the material world. That we’re more than just the sum of our bodies.  Originally the Catholic Church had installed lent for that reason.

With 6 & 7Adar, last weekend, we may remember Moses having written down the Law, or Torah. It is that Mosaic Law that should have to think about. That Law is what we should have to think about.

Naked we are all born,without having done faults. Naked we shall die having done many faults probably. The price of those wrongdoings or sins is death. No other payment shall be required. Once we die we shall deteriorate and the decay shall bring us to become dust.

The Bible is also clear, that man has to make it whilst he lives. Once he dies it is too late to change anything or to make other choices. God's Word the Bible shows mankind which way to choose. In the Word of God, the Bible we can find the Law or Torah, plus guidance and answers to many questions.

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Find to read:

1. Adar 6, Matan Torah remembering the giving of Torah
2. Adar 7 Moshe’s review of the Torah contained in the Book of Deuteronomy
3. Statutes given unto us 
4. God-breathed prophetic words written torah and the mitzvot to teach us
5. Mishmash of a legal code but importance of mitzvah or commandments
6. Written by inspiration of God for our admonition, to whom it shall be imputed if they believe
7. Observing the commandments and becoming doers of the Word

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Comfort For Jews, believers and gentiles with 3rd temple and Hope and Expectation of Israel

The Dome of The Rock Mosque, in the temple mount. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In 1925 Judge Joseph Rutherford wrote a book Titled “Comfort For The Jews,” at the time (1925) in sympathy with Pastor Charles T. Russell’s Discourse to the Jews, called “Zionism In Prophecy” www.zionstower.com which they had requested he give at the Hippodrome Theater in New York. There Pastor Russell expressed hope and belief that they would return and possess the Land. The 4,000 Jews there were thrilled to hear all this Christian Minister said for their Zionist Hopes and Prospects.

Rutherford of the Present Day “Watchtower,” lost hope for them because it did not materialize in 1925 as he had expected, Therefore, he cast off the Jews as having any part and were no better than Clergy of the Churches and without hope. This is the general view of Christians and Muslims today.

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Some of the Jews in Israel would like to demolish El Aqsa and Dome of the Rock Mosques and build a Temple there as in the past. This is what Br. Frank had to say:

 The rebuilding of the Temple will be quickly performed after Jacob’s Trouble and after the New Covenant Jeremiah 31:31is made. Ezekiel Chapters 38 and 39 tell of the Blast that will take place in Israel, for Old Jerusalem and the Dome of the Rock must be demolished to make room for the new Jerusalem. Ezekiel Chapters 40–47 provide details of the Third Temple, and Chapter 48 describes how Jerusalem will be rebuilt, the geographical relationship of the city to the Temple, the disposition of the land immediately around the city, and how the 12 tribes will be situated. IT IS ALL THERE in the Word of God; but we have our OWN ideas. It has symbolic Lessons as well

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Charles Thornton his Facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/charles.thornton.507/posts/1343027039076772

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