K C Sunbeam

                                                                  Robert Lee,  Since truths draw us closer to Christ and misinformation pulls us away, I say:  Biblical Hebrew is NOT precise. 1) Besides lacking vowels, the original vowel markings and thus original pronunciations are lost to history. 2) The original full Hebrew text body is lost to history. There are huge differences between our Masoretic text and every other early witness of the text (such as 2,600 differences in the Great Isaiah Scroll alone). 3) Biblical Hebrew is highly polysemous: that is, single words often having very different meanings, depending on context, fostering inaccurate translation. Then some words are hapax legomena (unique words that lack clues to interpretation).   4) Quoting the Jewish Encyclopedia (whose scholarship R...

                                        Mr. Lee, my goal is to help bring as many to salvation as possible and encourage them to maintain their Christian Walk. Perhaps you claim likewise.  Now the conditions of salvation (maintaining God's Grace) throughout Christian history, no more/less :  The Holy Spirit's prompting belief in the Trinitarian God and Faith that Jesus was God incarnate, atoned for everyone's sins, and resurrected to conquer death as perfect Savior. Repentance, confession/baptism into Christ, and always living faithfully there-after.  But you add a condition: We must see the Bible as a perfect God-authored book and/or not believing such is lack of faith. Those who cannot accept that yet would happily accept the other terms are turned away. That is because they are taught it is an all or nothing package. So, people like you are digging chasms in the road to...