Holy Wind Living Breath: Matthew 5:7

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Matthew 5:7

"Happy are the merciful, because they will be inhabiting mercy." This particular verse is very similar to the ENT at www.etymologicalnewtestament.blogspot.com. At that blog, Jesus' concept of inhabiting the spiritual place that one creates is discussed. In the updated translation of Holy Wind Living Breath New Testament the ongoing nature of inhabiting mercy is stressed. Rather than a one time event, our living in mercy is a continual happening...and thus a deep sense of happiness in life.

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What If?

What if Jesus' view of God was bigger than ours? What if we've missed some of the emphasis on divine immanence in Jesus' teaching?

What if Jesus' use of TELOS in the passages like Matthew 24 has more to do with "maturity" than with the "end"? What if we have, at least in part, misapprehended his emphasis on a grown-up society (rather than one about to 'end')?

What if the common phrase, in Matthew, "Kingdom of Heaven" is better translated as "realm of upward vision"? What if Jesus call for a new order of existence, of a higher aspiration for our human life, is what he is really "getting at" in his teaching?

And more...

What if the primary 'demon' of human society is literally "teaching that belittles"? What if 'prayer' is more accurately "to hold toward (or in) well-being"? What if Jesus did address LGBT concerns and recognized "other-gender persons" as part of the new realm?

There is a need to hear Jesus in as authentic a way as possible. Much of that hearing has to do with us. And some has to do with fresh and very literal translation. And, so you will read, in this blog, from a translation called Holy Wind Living Breath New Testament.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Matthew 5:7

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