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The vav ו looks like a sword and represents the word of God which is like a sword. The word clarifies, or explains things by slicing them apart and puting them back together. As a prefix, the vav is translated 'and'. 'And' joins two things, but divides them by acknowledging that they are different. | The vav ו looks like a sword and represents the word of God which is like a sword. The word clarifies, or explains things by slicing them apart and puting them back together. As a prefix, the vav is translated 'and'. 'And' joins two things, but divides them by acknowledging that they are different. | ||
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| + | 'Bereshith bara' בראשית ברא : In the beginning created. These are the first words of Genesis 1:1. The word for 'create' ברא also means 'separate'. God is completely different from us in the very stuff that makes God God and us us. He is not merely a more progressed man. He is not merely a more progressed spirit. He and we are not on the same path. He is the path and the way. <ref>[[Joh 14:6]] Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.</ref> | ||
Revision as of 15:48, 12 April 2018
Heb 4:12 For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
The vav ו looks like a sword and represents the word of God which is like a sword. The word clarifies, or explains things by slicing them apart and puting them back together. As a prefix, the vav is translated 'and'. 'And' joins two things, but divides them by acknowledging that they are different.
God separated creation from himself
'Bereshith bara' בראשית ברא : In the beginning created. These are the first words of Genesis 1:1. The word for 'create' ברא also means 'separate'. God is completely different from us in the very stuff that makes God God and us us. He is not merely a more progressed man. He is not merely a more progressed spirit. He and we are not on the same path. He is the path and the way. [1]
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