As a little child

As a little child

Mr 10:15 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.

What happens if we forget all of our sophisticated training in the Bible and approach it as a little Hebrew child?

Let's forget that men wrote the Bible in a far away land in a strange culture and believe that God wrote it for us.

Let's forget all the supposed contradictions, scientific errors, and believe it is true.

Let's forget that we can't trust the Bible because parts are oral tradition, or lost, or added, and trust that what we have is what God wants us to have.

Let's forget that they are just fables, or exaggerations, or stories invented after the fact to strengthen the religious hold on a gullible people, and believe that God does not lie. ^[1]

Let's listen to God in his word as he says the same thing over and over in different ways, like a parent teaching a child. Let's believe that every stroke is so important that God will not let a single one pass away. ^[2]

Let's hear and consider each word as a child does. He searches for the cat in 'catastrophe' and the dog in 'dogmatic'. Though that makes no sense in English, it makes perfect sense in Hebrew. ^[3] We observe Adam אדם in the ground adamah אדם-ה . We see that Adam אדם is made of blood dam דם and spirit א. And most surprisingly, we see that the blood dam דם hints at the cross meaning: the commandment ד fulfilled by the son ם.

It may seem far-fetched that a single letter, as seen in Adam, can mean many words, but we have words in English that are acronyms that lost the periods. There was an early e-mail application called ElM; Electronic Mail. It was replaced by an application called PINE meaning; Pine Is Not Elm. And we use 'Radar' which is 'RAdio Detection and Ranging'

In Hebrew the letters are not acronyms (at least I have not observed that phenomenon yet) but metaphor which are used consistently as words derive their meaning from the combination of the letters. Rather than go through tedious proofs for this, we will observe it incidentally as a child might sometimes 'get it' and sometimes not.

1. ↑ Nu 23:19 God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do [it]? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
2. ↑ Mt 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
3. ↑ This is called notarikon. This practice has been twisted by rabbis to hide Christ in scripture.