From this week’s Torah portion – Naso:
And YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, Speak to Aharon and his sons, saying, This is how you bless the children of Yisra’el. Say to them:
YHWH bless you and guard you;
YHWH make His face shine upon you, and show grace to you;
YHWH lift up His face upon you, and give you shalom.
Thus they shall put my name on the children of Yisra’el, and I myself shall bless them.
This is the blessing to be performed over the children of Yisrael by the kohanym (priests). Do you think that this blessing is to be performed by anyone else? Interesting question, yes? But it is the most lovely of blessings!

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Isaiah 55:7, “Evil people should stop being evil. They should stop thinking bad thoughts. They should return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them. They should come to our God, because he will freely forgive them.”After something you may consider bad has happened, have you ever caught yourself thinking about revenge or doing something you know you shouldn’t do? I will confess I still do that sometimes and then I remember I need to practice what I preach and find the place in the Bible where it is written how to handle the problem and then do what is written.

How often are the arguments made that say “Scripture Supports This.” Or “The Bible Backs This Up.”!

There are a near infinite number of arguments of this sort too each as opposing to the other as the next.

Even among the more proper people and within the less messy crowd this nonsense persists.

It sounds biblical sure because it’s usually using the Bible. But it is HOW this approach uses the Bible that makes it so baleful.

“Here’s my doctrine…and here’s where Scripture says I’m right.”

Yikes.

If we employ this approach, we take all of Scripture and boil it down to a backup-singer for our own solo performance.

The Holy Bible doesn’t need our hollow beliefs to hold It up. If it did need our supprt then we wouldnt need it. If it needed us it would be useless to appeal to. And if we need it for our support it’s just a thousandfoot krutch keeping us hobbling instead of healing and properly walking the Path.

Scripture is rather our foundation and our benchmark. It itself is the thing we are to be proclaiming not our dogma.

The Bible needs no help from us, and if our doctrines need to appeal to the Bible then those traditions need to go; and we need to only proclaim the Bible.

Scripture doesn’t need your creed.

It doesn’t respect your authority.

It doesnt mean what you want it to say.

Keep using it to prop up your pet doctrines at your peril, for it and not your tradition shall be the Standard by which we each will be tried in the judgment to come.

All our tradituin will testify either for or against us, whether it came from Scripture or was otherwise neutral to it. How we use the Bible now will be how we are charged at the last.

Did we hold it most precious and preach it true and rightly in accordance with its own grammar, history, culture and context? Or did we take the Book and use it as a shim to straighten a short leg on our wobbly doctrine?

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Jubilees 38:2 says, "Then Ya'aqob bent his bow and shot the arrow and struck Esaw, his brother, and slew him". I'm not a scholar, but I don't recall Jacob killing his brother Esau.