Dr Marty Baker put a splinter in brain on Monday and ruined the sermon I already had prepared for today! (Hate that guy!) He asked me if I had ever considered the silence of Saturday after the cross. I said, Wow! No I haven’t. What a thought!And so all week long the splinter…worked on me!
First – I have no idea what you are talking about.Second – it is poetic.It is a sort of watercolor backdrop of possibilities.It is not an attempt to rewrite theology or challenge creed.Really, at the core of it is something that started with me several years ago when I noted the first time ruach (Spirit/spirit/breath/blow/wind) appears in scripture is Genesis 1:2(Spirit).The second time it appears is in Genesis 3:8, …cool of the day… I mused over that for some time.Over the last several months (and much, much more scriptural reflection) I began to consider the possibility of cool being the linguistic implication of existential effect of wind blowing or blowing on something…i.e. it is cool. The word that follows it is the word most typically used representing a period of time. My question was: Could this not be translated Spirit Time? It sort of takes off from there…I won’t bore you with it.Nonetheless – my point in writing all the unrelated stuff I just wrote is to simply say…what I wrote had nothing whatsoever to do with challenging any view of the sabbath. Scripture says He (God) rested on the seventh day. That’s all. He was creating (thus, poetically, He wasn’t speaking). On the Saturday after the cross (whatever day one thinks the crucifixion happened) heaven was indeed silent again… That’s all. On the first day of the week Christ was risen from the dead. That’s all.You may indeed be able to make this yet another anvil on which to continue to hammer out your well established point of conviction regarding Torah, but it is not one I will engage any further than this.Thanks Well I’m sorry I asked the question Tom, wasn’t meant for me looking for my anvil. When I read it, it seemed to me that u were saying G-d does nothing on Shabbat, but He moves on the 1st day etc…________________Ps 122:6
Good stuff.Thanks for sharing________________