Comments on: What does 1 John 3:8 mean? http://BibleQ.info/answer/523/ Bible Questions Answered Thu, 17 May 2012 10:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: brother yochanan http://BibleQ.info/answer/523/comment-page-1/#comment-1210 brother yochanan Mon, 04 Apr 2011 05:06:40 +0000 http://bibleq.info/?p=523#comment-1210 deeper study of genesis and the fall reveals that the serpent is a metaphor for sin nature. The yetzer hara and hatov. If we look at shtn in hebrew we need to use picture language to see how the old, old testament thought was about this. sh = sheen a picture of teeth, about to devour, chomping. t = tet something coiled and ready to pounce, laying in wait n = nun a fish, goodness here we have the pictodiagram for shtn (or satan, adversary) We see mans ability to choose evil (hara) or good (hatov) the yetzer being mans nature. Tet being between the two choices, the evil inclination and the good inclination. This is why adam did not object when eve 'gave' him the 'fruit' to 'eat', because eve was dialoging inside herself and having made up her own mind, ate without asking adam or conversing with him. Tricky stuff. Many of todays hellenistic rabbis have forgotten this old teaching for a favored position by believing in the adopted persian zoroastrian belief of a God of good and a god of evil. deeper study of genesis and the fall reveals that the serpent is a metaphor for sin nature. The yetzer hara and hatov. If we look at shtn in hebrew we need to use picture language to see how the old, old testament thought was about this.
sh = sheen a picture of teeth, about to devour, chomping.
t = tet something coiled and ready to pounce, laying in wait
n = nun a fish, goodness

here we have the pictodiagram for shtn (or satan, adversary) We see mans ability to choose evil (hara) or good (hatov) the yetzer being mans nature. Tet being between the two choices, the evil inclination and the good inclination. This is why adam did not object when eve ‘gave’ him the ‘fruit’ to ‘eat’, because eve was dialoging inside herself and having made up her own mind, ate without asking adam or conversing with him.
Tricky stuff. Many of todays hellenistic rabbis have forgotten this old teaching for a favored position by believing in the adopted persian zoroastrian belief of a God of good and a god of evil.

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