Saturday, February 28, 2009

In The Hebrew

Many people will try to tell you the Torah says to love "GOD" or the Lord. Only in English is the term "God" used and the term "the Lord" written in the Torah. In the Hebrew it clearly says YHVH, the four letters that are refer to as the tetragrammaton to refer to "The Lord" and Elohim to refer to "God".

Even some Islamic sources try to tell you how the Torah says to love "Allah", which is just wrong. It is not referring to anyone but YHVH the Elohim of Israel.

Why do I bring this up? Knowing what is written in the original language will help to understand what is truly being said in the Torah. All of mankind spoke Hebrew till the Tower of Babel.

"And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech." Genesis 11:1 "Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." Genesis 11:7

After the Tower of Babel language gained a movement in it. Before then language never changed. Now it is constantly changing and ever in motion. American English can be the worst granted. But language as a whole needs a baseline reference to know what is written in a text.

So always check your source when trying to get the truth of the Torah. Clearer understanding can give whole new meanings to a text.

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