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Exploring Biblical Heritages Is About Making Lives Safer and Better Today!

 


The Exploring Biblical Heritages Skills I described in my previous email (CLICK HERE) affect much more than how people read their Bible. Exploring Biblical Heritages Skills affect the realities of those using them.

 

Realities are produced by the brain.

They determine how individuals view their world

and assign meanings to what they see.

 

Today science knows that believing is a biological process. What that means is human organs function according to the DNA that created them. Hearts pump blood, stomachs digest food, and brains ingest information provided by sensory organs – especially eyes and ears. The brain creates belief models from information it receives and then assigns values to its belief models.

 

The brain uses its most valued belief models to create

and then “live stream” the realities we experience as life!

 

For more information about this process click on The Brain: Our Reality Generator. In light of the above information, when new information caused change to the values assigned to my belief models – my reality also changed.

 

One of the most dramatic changes in my reality happened when I first applied Exploring Biblical Heritages Skills (EBHS) to the Hebrew text of the Garden of Eden Story in Genesis 3. I had heard this story all of my life and remember coloring pictures in Sunday School related to it. Let me share my experience, beginning with Genesis 3:1b:

 

“And he said to the woman . . . .”

 

● Exploring Biblical Heritages Skills (EBHS): Who is the “he”?

 

● My Old Belief Model: The “he” is Satan.

 

● My Old Reality: This is a story about a war between God and Satan over the souls of all humans. Satan created evil.

 

● EBHS: Genesis 3:1a says, The “he” is a snake; a beast of the field made by Yahweh.

 

● My New Belief Model: “He” is a wild animal made by Yahweh.

 

● My Updated Reality: This is a story about whether two humans will act together and do acts of TOV like God, or act as individuals and do acts of RAH like wild animals. The man created evil.

 

My old Belief Model about Satan came from a doctrine created in the 5th century CE by Augustine, a Roman Catholic Bishop. The history of the Hebrew text of Genesis can be traced back to the 5th century BCE. For almost 1,000 years, the story had no connection to Satan. Today, Augustine’s doctrine is part of the realities of over 2.5 billion Christians. Even more important than Augustine’s doctrine, is the loss of the original meaning of the English words good and evil in that story.

 

TOV (good) is defined as “acts that protect lives, preserve lives,

make lives more functional, and increase the quality of life.”

 

RAH (evil) is defined as “acts that destroy lives, harm lives,

make lives less functional, and decrease the quality of life.”

 

● In my old Reality, “good” and “evil” were “catchall terms” that meant different things to different people.

 

● In my updated Reality TOV and RAH are “concrete acts” that have measurable effects on human lives.

 

Once I understood the meanings of TOV and RAH, I immediately saw their connection to the teachings of the Jewish Jesus in Matthew 25.

 

● One group of people did acts of TOV – They gave food to the hungry, gave drinks to the thirsty, gave shelter to a stranger, gave clothes to the naked, visited the sick and went to see those in prison. They will enter eternal life.

 

● The other group of people will enter eternal punishment – They chose not to give food to the hungry, chose not to give drinks to the thirsty, chose not to give shelter to a stranger, chose not to give clothes to the naked, chose not to visit the sick and chose not to go see those in prison.

 

Exploring Biblical Heritages is about much more than just Bible studies. It is about examining the belief models that effect billions of lives today – including your life. It is about valuing human lives in our everyday decisions and actions. It provides concrete ways to make lives safer and better in a world in which those things are desperately needed.

 

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