I think someone was aiming to be encouraging when they said that God adores me. However, to me the word adore seems too connected with worship. Does anyone else think that way? I realise that God loves me.
He adores us as as parent adores their children.I think someone was aiming to be encouraging when they said that God adores me. However, to me the word adore seems too connected with worship. Does anyone else think that way? I realise that God loves me.
I think someone was aiming to be encouraging when they said that God adores me. However, to me the word adore seems too connected with worship. Does anyone else think that way? I realise that God loves me.
Thank you - yes, I do find that a better word.A better word would be "cherish". Jesus cherishes his people by laying down his life for them to save them.
As my friends the Orthodox Jews like to point out - English is a second language to God. (or maybe a third, who knows?)
Do not get hung up on definitions of words that never appear in the original text of scripture.
By this logic, using the English language to say God loves us is also misleading if not qualified. After all, we love our spouse, our children, our friends, hockey. If we need to qualify everything, we would not be speaking English except in very long, qualified books. God sees the state of our heart. Yes, God adores us - as one poster says, like a parent adores a child - meaning feeling great affinity for. The Bible says we are the apple of his eye... says to me he adores us.The concepts which are represented by words in any language are very important. It's very important that we speak correctly about God. In English, it could very well be misleading to say that God "adores" us if this is not qualified.
The closest we can come to GOD's original language is ancient Hebrew.If this is so, then Hebrew and Greek are also second languages to God. There is no holy language.
Correct. The bible uses at least 4 different Greek words to describe love, and at least 3 different Hebrew words.. After all, we love our spouse, our children, our friends, hockey.
The closest we can come to GOD's original language is ancient Hebrew.
Can you give me chapter and verse saying there is no holy language?
Including the conversations between Adam and God in Gen 2 and 3?All human language is man-made.
Including the conversations between Adam and God in Gen 2 and 3?
Also transmitted in ancient Hebrew. Is that a lie?
I think someone was aiming to be encouraging when they said that God adores me. However, to me the word adore seems too connected with worship. Does anyone else think that way? I realise that God loves me.
except that is what the bible says. (in the Hebrew text)We have no reason to suppose these conversations were in Hebrew.
Spiritual reasons? (not historical reasons)We have many reasons to suppose these conversations were not in Hebrew. (i.e. Hebrew being an Abrahamic language derived from the Chaldeans)
except that is what the bible says. (in the Hebrew text)
Spiritual
reasons? (not historical reasons)
Something that is believed because the Bible says it.What's a spiritual reason?
Something that is believed because the Bible says it.
Like the existence of Adam, Eve, the Garden of Eden; that God spoke the World into being. There is no historical evidence for any of those things. And yet we believe them.
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