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other topic areas of hard
questions:
christianity:
general
christianity:
lifestyle
church
God's
plan
leadership
the
nature of christ
various
topics
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hard
questions : the nature of God:
february
15, 2003 - "how would you deal with God as a
jealous God?"
i
know the passage you mean, where God says he is a
"jealous God" (exodus 20:5) - but i am
not sure i would have translated it as
"jealous" at that point - maybe passion,
or passionate - "i am a passionate God"
- ?
the
word in hebrew is "qanna" and has a component
of having a passion connected with it. the
reason i personally would not use the word
"jealous" has more to do with the idea
that "words change meaning over
time." so a word like "qanna"
that meant "jealous" at one time, may
not mean that today - because the definition of
"jealous" may not be the same - we need
to look at what does the word mean, not what does
it say - for example in the kjv we are told
to "suffer the children to jesus" -
suffer? the word suffer has a whole
different meaning today then it did when they
wrote the kjv. the word we use today is
"bring." you see, the original
greek did not change, the meaning of the word did
not change - only the word we used to translate
the word.
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