docphin5
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(I am putting this in the Jewish section because it appertains to the interpretation of Adam in Hebrew scriptures. I am demonstrating below that “Christ crucified” may be none other than Adam shamed and killed (“crucified”) by a tree. IOW, presume no alleged historical Gospel Jesus.)
In his letter to the Galatians (at 3:1), Paul demanded to know,
Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was written beforehand (proegraphe (1), see also, Rom. 15:4, (2)) as crucified.
Paul suggests to his disciples in Galatia (far from Jerusalem) could see with their “very eyes” that Christ’s death was written in scripture (rather than see it as an event in Palestine). (Please note that contrary to what many assume, this passage lacks any historical Gospel Jesus dying on an actual cross.)
Suspend disbelief for a moment and try to think like Paul. Certainly, Paul is resorting to a pesher approach or method of allegorizing scripture to perceive his crucified Christ in scripture and he expected his audience to do the same. Let us critically investigate how and in what way Jesus or Joshua was crucified in scripture? Admittedly, a task not easy to do, because a few verses later (Galatians 3:13) he links Christ’s death to Deuteronomy 21:23. At first, it is not clear what point is to be taken from this.
If a man has committed a sin worthy of death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance. (Deut 21:22-23)
I propose the missing link between Paul’s original thought of Christ crucified and this passage can be found at Romans 5:14, “Adam, who was a TYPE of the one who was to come.” In Paul’s mind Adam represents all humanity condemned by Jehovah for eating fruit from a tree, for
“Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all Men.” (Romans 5:12).
IOW, our outer man, i.e., body formed by Jehovah (Gen 2:7), is cursed by Jehovah, therefore, before our “very eyes” our mortal bodies, aka, Adam, is crucified or shamed and killed by a tree. Again, “Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day..” (2 corinthians 4:16)
It begs the question, if the outer man is wasting away or being crucified or cursed by Jehova, then who or what is the inner man?
The inner man would be the Adam made alive by the Holy Spirit, renewed by the cycle of Days.
I do not have time to go into details but Paul is presuming the foundation of duality established by the Essenes for the history and future of humanity. All humanity, aka, outer or bodily or fleshy Adam, has been crucified by Jehova, whereas, all “sons of light”, aka, inner or heavenly or spiritual Adam, are being “renewed day by day” by the Holy Spirit.
I think Paul’s point is that ritual purity prescribed in the Mosaic Law has no efficacy in removing the curse placed by Jehova on all of us, i.e., the outer Adam. It is only through the inner Holy Spirit making Adam alive and free from the curse that we become alive.
It is truly amazing to perceive a universal messiah or holy spirit bringing salvation (”Yeshua”) to humanity, aka, Adam, through his ”two anointed ones”, namely, the Teacher of Righteousness and Paul, “a prophet like Moses”, and “a light to the nations”, respectively.
References
1) prographó: to write before Original Word: προγράφω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: prographó
Phonetic Spelling: (prog-raf'-o)
Definition: to write before
Usage: (a) I write previously (aforetime); I write above (already), (b) I depict or portray openly, (c) I designate beforehand.
2) (Romans 15:4) “For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.”
In his letter to the Galatians (at 3:1), Paul demanded to know,
Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was written beforehand (proegraphe (1), see also, Rom. 15:4, (2)) as crucified.
Paul suggests to his disciples in Galatia (far from Jerusalem) could see with their “very eyes” that Christ’s death was written in scripture (rather than see it as an event in Palestine). (Please note that contrary to what many assume, this passage lacks any historical Gospel Jesus dying on an actual cross.)
Suspend disbelief for a moment and try to think like Paul. Certainly, Paul is resorting to a pesher approach or method of allegorizing scripture to perceive his crucified Christ in scripture and he expected his audience to do the same. Let us critically investigate how and in what way Jesus or Joshua was crucified in scripture? Admittedly, a task not easy to do, because a few verses later (Galatians 3:13) he links Christ’s death to Deuteronomy 21:23. At first, it is not clear what point is to be taken from this.
If a man has committed a sin worthy of death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance. (Deut 21:22-23)
I propose the missing link between Paul’s original thought of Christ crucified and this passage can be found at Romans 5:14, “Adam, who was a TYPE of the one who was to come.” In Paul’s mind Adam represents all humanity condemned by Jehovah for eating fruit from a tree, for
“Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all Men.” (Romans 5:12).
IOW, our outer man, i.e., body formed by Jehovah (Gen 2:7), is cursed by Jehovah, therefore, before our “very eyes” our mortal bodies, aka, Adam, is crucified or shamed and killed by a tree. Again, “Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day..” (2 corinthians 4:16)
It begs the question, if the outer man is wasting away or being crucified or cursed by Jehova, then who or what is the inner man?
The inner man would be the Adam made alive by the Holy Spirit, renewed by the cycle of Days.
I do not have time to go into details but Paul is presuming the foundation of duality established by the Essenes for the history and future of humanity. All humanity, aka, outer or bodily or fleshy Adam, has been crucified by Jehova, whereas, all “sons of light”, aka, inner or heavenly or spiritual Adam, are being “renewed day by day” by the Holy Spirit.
I think Paul’s point is that ritual purity prescribed in the Mosaic Law has no efficacy in removing the curse placed by Jehova on all of us, i.e., the outer Adam. It is only through the inner Holy Spirit making Adam alive and free from the curse that we become alive.
It is truly amazing to perceive a universal messiah or holy spirit bringing salvation (”Yeshua”) to humanity, aka, Adam, through his ”two anointed ones”, namely, the Teacher of Righteousness and Paul, “a prophet like Moses”, and “a light to the nations”, respectively.
References
1) prographó: to write before Original Word: προγράφω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: prographó
Phonetic Spelling: (prog-raf'-o)
Definition: to write before
Usage: (a) I write previously (aforetime); I write above (already), (b) I depict or portray openly, (c) I designate beforehand.
2) (Romans 15:4) “For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.”
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