Maria’s Reviews > Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible > Status Update

simple suggestion: read from a variety of translation
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Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic, and the New Testament in Greek (with a few Aramaic words).

Columnist Jack White once observed, "The most insidious racism is among those who don't think they harbor any."

Conservative Christians are applying the text from the Bible through the lens of culture rather than applying the text TO culture???? 😒

???? Can anything good coe from there? John 1:46
...Jerusalem was insignifican in Jesus' time. 🤔

Jesus the Nazarene - But Jews in neighboring aread seldom found anything amazing about Nazarenes. 😮

We also believe that to understand a culture, you must be aware of ethinicity and especially the prejudices that may exit....

...many white Westerners feel that the worst thing they could be called is a racist.

love it ❤️❤️❤️ We believe there is only one race, the human race, made in the image of God.