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- From: ucakrvb@ucl.ac.uk (Vijay Bhuchar)
- Newsgroups: alt.messianic
- Subject: The Trinity in The Tanakh (Re: accusations of idolatry)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.212850.18641@ucl.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 21:28:50 GMT
- Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium
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- All these accusations of idolatry in Christianity remind me of the first time
- I read that the Trinity *WAS* in the Tanakh. We need to discuss this so I
- will get the ball rolling.
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- I believe that it was a Jew who analysed the shema:
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- Sh'ma Yisrael, Adonai, Elohaynu, Adonai, Echad
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- His comments were:
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- "The word echad is found in Genesis 2:24 with reference to a man and woman
- becoming one flesh - basar echad. It never implies absolute unity but always
- a composite unity. For example eshcol echad is applied to a cluster of grapes
- (Num 13:23). The Shema is therefore best translated as:
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- Hear O Israel, The Lord Our God, The Lord is a Composite Unity."
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- And I believe that the Zohar says the same thing (no references today - maybe
- next week if someone hasnot supported this by then).
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- Vijay
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