Ultimate Bible Tutor

The Janitor was out Friday, so I ended up doing both jobs. They assigned someone else with garbage duty. Monday rolls around and there was a lot of trash.

Janitor: You didn't take the garbage out. I told you it was the most important thing.

ME: You also said that I didn't have to take it out because someone else was assigned to do it.

Janitor: who? If there was they didn't do it.

Me: That's not my fault. I am not responsable for someone else not doing their job.

Janitor: You need to go take it out.

Me: ok

I didn't work Saturday and neither did he. Friday there was two shifts after us. That's a total of 6 times it was someone elses job to take garbage out, but somehow It's my fault lol.

Me: Just admit that your lazy or shut up.
Janitor: ...

Mount Hashem El Tarif. Never heard of it? That is because the truth is often hidden in plain sight. There was an ancient spring on top of this mountain that quenched the thirst of many desert wonderers. An open air rock sanctuary to call out to people below and many graves of holy men. There was a temple at the base of the mountain and ample space for thousands to gather around the base of the mountain.

The Trinity A scientific description of the Trinity using The Law of Conservation of Energy detailing why our spirit must merge with God.

There are many dialects of Aramaic, but Jesus spoke only one. The differences between the dialects range from pronunciation, alphabets and sometimes meanings of words.

Aramaic is not a dead language, but it is endangered. Jesus spoke a northern dialect known today as Galile Aramaic. Other dialects include Western Syrian, Chaldean, and Hebrew.

"The Plains of Arbela (Mesopotamia) was south of their mountain fortress". Aramaic is still spoken by the Assyrians in Kurdistan and parts of Mesopotamia to this day.

The Jews in North Mesopotamia, Kurdistan and Persia speak and pray in a dialect of Aramaic known as "Lesh an Galoth" the language of captivity.

Aramaic was a literary language and the Law Code of Hamurabi was written in it.

When I was a young child I used to believe that angels were only for children deserving of love. I often talked to them after a long nights of abuse, but I never considered them as comforters or protectors. To me, Angel's were watchers. They would watch me be abused, but never intervene. Angel's would watch me cry, but never comfort me, never love me and never care. As a small unloved, unwanted child I mirrored how society treated me into how I thought Angel's would also treat me.

In my late teenage years I learned that people can also be sent by god to lead you and guide you to him. These wonderful messengers are only in your life for a time, but you immediately feel a connection to them and to God. Your soul immediately intermixes with theirs for eternity. It's difficult to explain the connection to someone that never came into contact with an "earth angel", but for individuals that were graced by their presence the amount of unconditional love that you feel radiating from them is almost more than your soul can hold.

Visions of Angel's permeate throughout the bible as messengers and the first time that I received guidance from an angelic being wasn't as impressive as the stories in the bible. I wasn't commanded to convince someone that it would be in their best interest to "let my people go" and I wasn't commanded to sacrifice my child on the altar

Five powerful words said and I obeyed. Five words uttered with love, but also with authority. A voice so beautiful and yet terrifying at the same time. "Don't go into the tunnel". It was my choice and I chose to heed the warning. I didn't know at the time the consequences of disobedience, but I knew it wouldn't have been pleasant. There was a huge multi-vehicle accident in that tunnel. I heard about it on the CB as I continued down the highway. Truck drivers screamed for other truckers to "back down", but it was too late. The CB was silenced as flames burst through that tunnel. I said a prayer for the victims even though at the time I couldn't understand why they didn't listen to the Angel's warning. It didn't dawn on me until several years later that the victims of that deadly accident couldn't hear the warning.

Angel's are among us, and if you haven't experienced their awesome power, open your eyes, clean out your ears and believe, because
there is a good chance that the reason you don't experience miracles is because you don't believe that you can.

When I explore the holy text I literally dive deep into the meanings of every word, every syllable, and every historic reference to specific times and places. This gives me a deeper understanding of what it all means.

This way of studying the ancient scripts also works with understanding the human soul. For example, after transporting someone to church on the church bus I asked if they enjoyed the service. The woman said that it was fine, but she didn't feel God's presence. This woman never returned to our church and I often wondered how someone could seek god, but not find him.

To a person that has not yet been saved, seek means to look for. This woman was looking for god, but she lacked the knowledge to undergo such a task. It is up to us Christian's to guide the lost to the light. The only way that we can do that is to understand the holy text in its original context. The only way for us to truly understand god, to truly walk in the footsteps of Jesus is to shed the various translations and translate the bible as god intended it to be heard.

I do feel guilt for not leading that woman to god, but at the time I was new to the faith myself and didn't understand why she was having such a difficult time. I have come to understand that God can not be found in a church, or on the street. GOD dwells within us. In Aramaic, the word for seek is be'a. It means to search from the inside to the outside. If you search for god within you will find him. Once you find him you will also see him working within your neighborhood, within your community and within the world.

There are several different translations to the texts and each translation only causes confusion. Luke 14:26 " If a man come to me and hate not his father he can not be my disiple". We are to honor our mother and father, so why must we hate our father to be a disciple?

[Saney] was translated as hate but this word also means to remove aside. Eastern texts translated this verse as " He who comes to me and does not put aside his father..." This translation is more accurate and easily understood. It's just another way of stating that you can't serve two masters.

Another issue with translations is that sometimes entire words are added or omitted that drastically change the meaning. This is often done because the translator does not understand Eastern customs or idealogies.

Luke 14:5 " which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit".

Is an ass more worthy to be saved from death on the sabbath than an ox? Are we to assume that the ancient Israelites would only save an ass or an ox, but not sheep or goats?

[Brey] was translated as ass, but the word for ass is [khmarey].

Eastern text translates the text more correctly as " which one of you if his son or his ox should fall into a pit...".

What translator would knowingly replace [brey] son with [khmarey] ass? Easterners link humans with animals for emphasis, not the other way around.

Then there are times that passages say one thing but mean another. Ancient Israelites understood the text, but translators did not.

John 20:22 " he breathed on them"

Why is this passage even included in the text if the meaning is only getting breathed on. The time frame doesn't suggest some pandemic that would make breathing a health hazard.

HE BREATHED ON THEM, literally means that he gave them strength.

Someone can not know God as god intended us to know him if we rely solely on what other people or translations say. I don't rely on you to tell me who someone else is. I only rely on you to tell me who you are. The more that is revealed about you, the more I will know you. The same is true for God. Learn, research and debate until you know God like you were intended to know him.

When the Assyrians brought a large mixed Assyrian and Babylonian population to settle in Samaria and Northern Israel 700 years elapsed.

The Jewish population does not forget their enemies. To the Jews these Galileans were not the descendants of their people returning from exile. They were gentiles, ancient Assyrian enemies and the Jews would not tolerate a prophet from that region.

These gentiles spoke Aramaic, worshiped the Assyrian Gods and practiced their own customs. These gentiles were viewed as "others". They accepted the god of Israel as their chief God, because he was the God of the land.

The settlers were called Galileans (foreigners) by the Jews of the south (I Kings 17:33).

Jews despised the Galileans and regarded them as the descendants of the ones that conquered them and destroyed their country. In (Ezra 4:2) the Jews referred to the Galileans as "adversaries".

The Jews were prideful people. The Galileans believed more in repentance than traditional ancestry and radical pride. There is evidence to the ancestry of Jesus, but Jesus only relied on his ancestry when converting Jews.

Conversion was done using debates back then. If you won a debate with a Jew the Jew would be converted.

It was very difficult for the Jews to understand these gentiles. The Jews were a literal tribe where as the Galileans were prone to metaphors. Misunderstandings happened frequently between the two groups. Was Jesus the son of man, the son of God or both? Did Jesus threaten to destroy the temple and build it within three days, or was he talking about himself being that temple? The Jews thought that they knew the answer, but they were wrong.

This is why it is so important to accept people into our churches that are viewed as "others" by society. This is why it is so important to get to know someone before we pass judgement based on what we might believe of them, or their societies. What we think we understand about Jesus, about the bible, and about god is never enough to pass judgement on someone else.

Bar-Nasha; the son of man, mankind, humanity, a man, human being, an ordinary person.

Was Jesus the son of man? Only in the sense that a peasant was called a son of man. Jesus lived and died a peasant. He made sure that people viewed him in that way throughout the bible.

Kings would never ride upon an ass. Asses were viewed as symbols of disgrace and humiliation. When someone was punished for their heretical views he was placed on an ass and paraded through the town. Jesus did not want to be seen as a king.

Jesus could heal the sick and raise the dead, but did not want to be seen as a healer. In ancient eastern cultures spitting was an insult, but holy men were allowed to spit on a wound. The belief was that when a holy man spit on the wound he was rebuking the disease and the evil which caused it. If Jesus wanted to be seen as a healer he wouldnt have taken the afflicted aside and done it in secret. He wouldn't have told the people that he healed to tell no one. A healer fast in order to receive the power of God for the work of healing the sick. Jesus didn't need to fast because he was the power of God Jesus was a healer, but did not want to be seen as one.

Being a holy man Jesus often did the things that holy men did. In ancient Israel trees are the property of the one whom planted it. When the identity of the real owner was lost the tree became public property. When Jesus cursed the tree that bore no fruit he was fulfilling the customs of a holy man. Cursing is an oriental custom and holy men have continued to curse or bless vineyards even today.

Do you see how Jesus didn't really have a pot to p**s in. The deck was stacked against him before he was even born. Jesus spoke Northern Aramaic, the dialect spoken by the Assyrians. He used the same dialect spoken after the fall of the Assyrian Empire used by the Babylonians and Persian conquers. He spoke the language of the Jewish Enemies!

Southern or Chaldean Aramaic was spoken by the Jews of Judea who's forefathers were carried captive into Babylon. Jesus did not speak this dialect.

Western Aramaic, known as Aramean was the dialect of the Syrian Kingdom as far back as the days of Abraham. This dialect was displaced by northern Aramaic after the conquest of Syria by the Assyrians (722 B.C.). Jesus did not speak this dialect.

How could the Jews view Jesus as anything but a foreigner? Johoiachin, the last known king of the Davinic Dynasty was carried away, a captive of the Chaldeans 500 years before Jesus was ever born (2 Kings 25:27).

Jesus did not want to be seen as a king. He did not want to be seen as a healer, and he never claimed to be a prophet, so who and what was he?