There are three gospel renditions of the Last Supper, Matthew 26:26-28, Mark 14:22-24, and Luke 22:19-20, at which Yeshua certainly spoke in Aramaic to his disciples (women and men present at that Seder) when he blessed bread and the cup of wine. Can you enlighten us about the meaning of the words in Aramaic that he spoke in blessing?
Thank you so very, very much. I started to weep halfway through. I was raised in a very conservative evangelical environment. My parents were missionaries with a conservative, evangelical mission agency. I attended a strict boarding school for the children of missionaries.
After high school I went to a conservative evangelical Christian university. Then I obtained a masters in theology and a PhD in psychology from a conservative evangelical seminary. I don’t think there’s a person alive who has been more thoroughly indoctrinated into the American evangelical cult than I was.
I memorized the Lord‘s prayer when I was a child and have heard it and recited it tens of thousands of times during my lifetime. And finally, after 65 years, I understand what it really means. I feel cheated by the cult I was raised in. It makes me sad that this cult had the truth and yet didn’t really understand it and didn’t convey it.
But I’m grateful to you. I feel like I’m on the Antiques Roadshow and have just been informed that the dingy, worn out, moth-eaten blanket which has been passed down through my family for generations, and which had been laying carelessly on our family’s couch to warm us on chilly fall evenings, is in fact a priceless Native American-Indian weaving.
I listened to this last night. Today upon waking from a short nap it was impressed upon me to listen again.
There are so many things within this i recognize because of the things that were uncovered within me then to me as I began searching for answers to questions that wouldn't leave. These questions left a deep yearning within me to seek truth. The one that kept me going was to seek and ye shall find. It is continual however each inner seeing and revelation gives you what you need to continue.
As I sat listening to this it was as if I was back in that time and place listening to Yeshua.
From years of learning how to discern voices I recognize these things.
So very interesting! And it complements and coincides so well with what I as a Baha'i believe. It has always been my belief that the words of Jesus and Muhammad were manipulated (either willfully or, as you say, because of some construct the translators lived in) and were not necessarily accurate.
I've always found all of those ten teachings to be enigmatic, but now I better understand them.
Focusing for now on just the first one, I was always puzzled by what he meant by the "poor in spirit".
I've always thought being "spirited" was a good thing that I've strived for in own life, so how was it that the lethargic, lackluster and boring people were the ones that fully experienced heaven?
I thought that maybe I was misinterpreting what he meant, that maybe he was referring to those that had poor spiritual connection to God, but that was difficult to make sense out of it also.
When interpreted to mean those that are truly humble and selfless, it makes sense.
Thank you so much friend! I love the original Aramaic! And I have come to understand those ideas in the mystical Eastern Orthodox Church! Amazing how even growing up Lutheran I knew “ My Father” meant the Source of All Life!!! Glory to God may we all walk the path together throughout eternity. I do have a question tho - you say at the end Christ “ demonstrated” and His demonstration had come to completion there on the Cross? Do you not believe in the Resurrection? Do you think Christ was merely a man who somehow understood all Truth? And exactly how are those who are not so enlightened to spend eternity after their physical bodies have died? Maybe too much for a concise reply? I am just wondering what your personal beliefs are ….
Nabu, Thank you for excellent work.
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There are three gospel renditions of the Last Supper, Matthew 26:26-28, Mark 14:22-24, and Luke 22:19-20, at which Yeshua certainly spoke in Aramaic to his disciples (women and men present at that Seder) when he blessed bread and the cup of wine. Can you enlighten us about the meaning of the words in Aramaic that he spoke in blessing?
Leaves me with the feeling of ‘Home’. So much I’ve felt but never could express or explain to others. So wonderFULL🙏🏻
Thank you so very, very much. I started to weep halfway through. I was raised in a very conservative evangelical environment. My parents were missionaries with a conservative, evangelical mission agency. I attended a strict boarding school for the children of missionaries.
After high school I went to a conservative evangelical Christian university. Then I obtained a masters in theology and a PhD in psychology from a conservative evangelical seminary. I don’t think there’s a person alive who has been more thoroughly indoctrinated into the American evangelical cult than I was.
I memorized the Lord‘s prayer when I was a child and have heard it and recited it tens of thousands of times during my lifetime. And finally, after 65 years, I understand what it really means. I feel cheated by the cult I was raised in. It makes me sad that this cult had the truth and yet didn’t really understand it and didn’t convey it.
But I’m grateful to you. I feel like I’m on the Antiques Roadshow and have just been informed that the dingy, worn out, moth-eaten blanket which has been passed down through my family for generations, and which had been laying carelessly on our family’s couch to warm us on chilly fall evenings, is in fact a priceless Native American-Indian weaving.
I listened to this last night. Today upon waking from a short nap it was impressed upon me to listen again.
There are so many things within this i recognize because of the things that were uncovered within me then to me as I began searching for answers to questions that wouldn't leave. These questions left a deep yearning within me to seek truth. The one that kept me going was to seek and ye shall find. It is continual however each inner seeing and revelation gives you what you need to continue.
As I sat listening to this it was as if I was back in that time and place listening to Yeshua.
From years of learning how to discern voices I recognize these things.
Thank you Nabu.!
Beautiful work.
Thank you so much for your work. I truly relate to it.
So very interesting! And it complements and coincides so well with what I as a Baha'i believe. It has always been my belief that the words of Jesus and Muhammad were manipulated (either willfully or, as you say, because of some construct the translators lived in) and were not necessarily accurate.
I've always found all of those ten teachings to be enigmatic, but now I better understand them.
Focusing for now on just the first one, I was always puzzled by what he meant by the "poor in spirit".
I've always thought being "spirited" was a good thing that I've strived for in own life, so how was it that the lethargic, lackluster and boring people were the ones that fully experienced heaven?
I thought that maybe I was misinterpreting what he meant, that maybe he was referring to those that had poor spiritual connection to God, but that was difficult to make sense out of it also.
When interpreted to mean those that are truly humble and selfless, it makes sense.
Amazing
Thank you so much friend! I love the original Aramaic! And I have come to understand those ideas in the mystical Eastern Orthodox Church! Amazing how even growing up Lutheran I knew “ My Father” meant the Source of All Life!!! Glory to God may we all walk the path together throughout eternity. I do have a question tho - you say at the end Christ “ demonstrated” and His demonstration had come to completion there on the Cross? Do you not believe in the Resurrection? Do you think Christ was merely a man who somehow understood all Truth? And exactly how are those who are not so enlightened to spend eternity after their physical bodies have died? Maybe too much for a concise reply? I am just wondering what your personal beliefs are ….