(03-30-2024, 01:15 AM)Dana Wrote:(03-09-2024, 12:19 AM)ThomasDGW Wrote: ...except I solved a problem this way that wouldn't work in life until I dropped the common interpretation, and pretended I was like a little child, and took a fresh look at it. Now, it works.
Thomas, I have only one question. Why didn't your fresh approach at looking at the text (approaching it as a little child) include first and foremost learning the Hebrew language basics? Your story reads as if you have brought a lot of confirmation bias.
I was referring to the New Testament, which was written in Greek, and I did do everything I could to ascertain the meaning of the text, but the basic meaning of the text was not the difficulty. The difficulty was that the scholars said that the text didn't mean what it said, for the purpose of fitting a text to a doctrine derived from an imposed logical supposition on other texts, etc. My big task was to sort those things out, not learn the language.
AFTER I found a coherent message in the NT text, then I found that it fit life AND many things in the Hebrew Bible, as explained by the counter-missionaries, like Tovia Singer.