What is confessing Yeshua? Just saying the Sinner's Prayer or "Jesus is Lord"?
If you like rants you'll enjoy me tearing apart the "say the sinner's prayer and you'll go to heaven" mentality as a false gospel. Because confessing Yeshua is the consuming pursuit of a lifetime, not a pat one-time formula. Along the way I also go on several 'rabbi trails' to explain why approaching the Scriptures as a story can save you from a faith crisis, how you can only think about one thing at a time, and how Evangelical complexes may be wrecking your relationship with the Jewish community unawares.
This is a takeaway from my newest Hebrew Verses study. We also talked about these questions:
~What should a Jewish person do/not do to confess Yeshua?
~Why does the Hebrew word for thanks literally mean to throw stuff?
~How is Middle Eastern honour culture different than Western culture?
~The Gospel is a story and it's time to recover the art of storytelling.
Watch the full-length lesson reading through Romans 10:9-21 in Hebrew here: https://holylanguage.com/romans.html
That was a very interesting listen. The many translations can be frustrating, especially if you talk about God with friends and they have read a different book that you have. What is the answer?
Jesus is Lord... Yeshua h'adon... The Lord Jesus. The confession is made in our actions, not just with our mouths. Faith without works is dead... confessing Jesus is Lord without action is just empty words.
In the Septuegent, the Holy Name of the Most High is translated in Greek as "kurios" lord. Is this what Paul was implying when he said confess that Yeshua is "kurios"?
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