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The Meaning of Allaha
The Bible begins with the creation of our world in simple terms. It depicts the birth of Adam and Eve as two human beings in Paradise -- a perfect world where the first man and the first woman live in harmony with all the other creatures. In this world no one grows old or dies. All knowledge is good. There is one ruler, who is portrayed as Allaha (God in English.) The word itself, in the language of the Scriptures, represents the Light that was the spark of the world. 'Al' means 'over' and 'la-ha' means the flame; in other words, 'Above the Light,' 'Above the Flame,' 'Above All,' or 'The Creator.'
The original Light was depicted as the ruler of Paradise. This is what the word 'Allaha' means. This word is different in almost all the languages of the world, because it is described according to the cultural perspective of the people that believe in the whole concept of 'creation.'
Eashoa Msheekha came to the world to reveal the laws that were given to Him by the Father, the Creator of the universe. He was opposed by those who felt that the laws of Allaha were given to them for safeguarding. This view persists to this day.
But according to the Messiah who appeared two thousand years ago, He was the only Milta of Maryah Allaha, His only representative on earth and in heaven. Human beings cannot be the representatives of the Creator, because their world is always changing and evolving -- including their morality, as things change and various peoples assume power. Knowledge of the world is always in flux. It must adapt itself to changes in nature. It must allow for the overwhelming political changes. Otherwise there will be chaos.
But with Maryah (the Lord) there is only one morality and one source of power, which is unchanging and eternal. His knowledge cannot be assumed by men; His knowledge is only given when He is in direct control of it.
Moreover, Maryah's position can only be expressed through His Triune nature: He is the Milta of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. So He is coming from the position of absolute power -- not that His power is oppressive. It is rather liberating and benevolent. He represents true freedom and genuine hope.
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However, He told only His Disciples who He was. Step by step He told them. He did not tell them all at once, because people just cannot take the whole idea that Allaha (God) has come in the flesh and had walked the earth with human beings. And so it would have been dangerous for Him as well; He had a mission to accomplish, which was to sacrifice Himself on behalf of humanity one time, and this mission had to be accomplished. It could not be in the context of the human beings' understanding; it had to be according to His will.
And even when He was on the Cross, they were suspecting that He was not the Messiah. They said, "Messiah, if you really are the Son of God, come down from the Cross and save yourself; you've saved others, save yourself now!"
They blasphemed in this way against Him many times; but He commended His Spirit into the Father's hands only when He was ready -- when everything was fulfilled. And He said it, 'It is fulfilled.'
It is translated wrong in English as, 'It is finished.' No. He said, 'It is fulfilled.' The Scriptures and the prophesies were fulfilled. The way He had intended they would be fulfilled, in His time, according to His teachings and according to His definition of everything.
So you can be sure that the inspiration to translate the Scriptures from the Ancient Aramaic language was genuine from the start. I had no ulterior motive. I had no nationalistic, ethnic pride or prejudice to steer me, to guide me; I had nothing.... I was only an ordinary person, without any pretensions to be an authority -- I just happened to know the Aramaic language, and I made the effort to learn the ancient form of it -- so thank you for following my translations, all those of you who have; and for supporting me -- thank you.
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Assumptions about the Knowledge of Good and Evil
All evil is based on the assumption that Eashoa Msheekha is not the Milta of Maryah Allaha. There is no other evil in the world.
This is the first assumption. It has had relevance to humanity since the time when Adam and Eve were thrown out of Paradise. Because before Adam and Eve were thrown out of Paradise, Maran Eashoa Msheekha was already with the Father. He was one Spirit with the Father, and the Holy Spirit was also with Him.
The Msheekha had not come to the world yet. In fact, He would not have had to come to the world until all the prophecies had been written about Him, and His time would not have yet been designated -- when He was to come and introduce Himself to humanity, and proclaim the prophecies about Him.
It was at this point when the Serpent told his first big lie to Adam and Eve.
Genesis 3:1 "... the serpent said to the woman, 'Did Allaha truly say that you should not eat from all the trees of Paradise?'
2. "And the woman said to the serpent, 'Of the fruit of all the trees of Paradise you may eat,
3. "But of the fruit of the tree in the midst of Paradise," Allaha said, "you shall not eat ... and you shall not go near it, so you will not die."
4. "And the serpent said to the woman, "You will not die the death (really die,)
5. "Because Allaha knows that on that day when you eat from it, your eyes will be opened and you will become as if you were Gods, knowing the good and the evil."
That was the first lie! The Serpent knew that Maryah Allaha had not said it regarding all the trees of Paradise. And Eve knew it too, and so she had correctly said to the serpent that it was regarding the one tree in the midst of Paradise.
So what was this 'tree' that was supposed to impart the knowledge of 'good and evil'?
I believe that this 'tree' was the 'Tree of Life' which man was destined to find out about 'at the end'; but to eat of this 'tree' before the designated time, meant that Adam and Eve would now begin to live the natural life, the life of the world that she was so much in a hurry to experience.
6. "And the woman saw that the tree was beautiful ... and she took the fruit from its branches and ate, and she gave also to her husband with her and he also ate." (Note that the word 'husband' comes into play after the eating of the 'fruit.')
So it was not from a desire to make Adam sin that Eve gave him the fruit to eat. Adam was also curious; Eve had eaten of the fruit and nothing had happened to her, so he also believed the lie that the serpent had told her.
7. "And both of them, their eyes were opened, and they discovered that they were naked, and they took fig leaves and covered themselves."
The fig tree has large leaves. Also, there were a lot of delicious fruit in Paradise. Not to eat of a particular tree was not the point; it was not to eat of the tree designated by Allaha. So it was a matter of obedience.
8. "And they heard the voice of Maryah Allaha as He walked in Paradise at the end of the day. Adam and his wife hid themselves from Maryah Allaha in the trees of Paradise.
9. "And Maryah Allaha called Adam and said to him, 'Where are you running?'
10. "Adam replied, 'I heard your voice in Paradise and I saw that I was naked and so I hid myself.' (So he was ashamed for the first time.)
11. "And Maryah said to him, 'Who saw that you were naked; behold, did you eat of the tree that I told you not to eat of?'
12. "And Adam said, "The woman -- who was with me -- she gave me of the tree and I ate."
13. "And Maryah Allaha said to the woman, 'Who made you do it?'
"And she said, 'The serpent misled me and I ate.'
14. "And Maryah Allaha said to the serpent, 'For this that you did, you are cursed, out of all the four-legged animals and of the creatures of the wilderness, and you shall crawl on your belly, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life,
15. "And I shall sanction enmity among you toward the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; they will crush your head and you will strike at their heels."
16. "And to the wife He said, 'The pain of your conception will greatly increase and you will give birth to children in pain, and they shall return to your husband and he will exercise authority over you.'
17. "And to Adam He said, 'Since you listened to the voice of your wife and you ate of the tree that I commanded you not to eat, the earth is cursed on account of you, and in pain you will eat of it all the days of your life.
18. "Thorns and thistles will shoot out around you, and you shall eat the herbs of the field,
19. "And by the sweat of your brow you will eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you were consecrated, for dust you were made from and to dust you shall return."
This was essentially their ouster from Paradise.
20. "And Adam called the name of his wife "Eve," because she was the mother of all who would live.
21. "And Maryah Allaha made them robes of fiber and clothed them.
22. "And Maryah Allaha said, 'Behold, Adam wanted to be like one of us, to know the good and the evil; now, that is why he extended his hand and took from the tree of life and ate, so he could live forever.'
The reference to 'us' was to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
23. "And Maryah Allaha sent Adam from Eden's Paradise to work the earth that He consecrated away from there.
24. "And so Maryah Allaha ejected them, and there shot up for them from the East of the Paradise of Eden the plants of carob and a perishable life at the edge of the sword, so as there would be one day a return to the way of the Tree of Life."
After they were ejected out of Paradise, Adam and Eve, and their entire progeny, would live in the 'new world.' It is a world where humanity lives in freedom, but they must achieve everything through work, effort and toil. There is sickness and death; but there is also growth and prosperity -- in other words, the world as we know it.
Some might consider that the writers of the Scriptures are delusional; but a 'delusion' that inspires and gives hope to millions of people is far better -- far better than the scientific conclusions that the stars and the planets were created by accident, without purpose, and that they will someday collapse and be sucked into black holes and disappear into nothingness.
I choose to live by the elegant story of Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah and the Ark, Eashoa Msheekha (Jesus the Messiah,) Redemption and Forgiveness, and the Life Everlasting that Maryah Allaha promised through His Milta, our very Maran Eashoa Msheekha.
The story written thousands of years ago, by very learned and polished theologians, has become a classic of religious thought. It is a magnificent story that explains in a very brief literary space the entire story of creation, the birth of the universe, the creation of the first human beings, animals, and the plants. It surpasses in elegance what scientists and secular knowledge has managed to present as the creation of the world, because science is always changing its precepts and coming up with new discoveries to replace the old ones. None of the scientific concepts are permanent. They will all come to naught; but the Scriptures will go on forever.
July 16, 2016
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Jesus was not a prophet
If you can't deal with the word "Allaha," because it reminds you of 'Allah,' then you can't deal with the Milta either; now you're at an impasse.
But going back to the word 'Allaha' -- if you think it's another word for 'God', you're now dealing with a totally different problem.
The word Allaha came first. This is the first word describing the Creator -- the first linguistic designation for the word 'God' in its modern form -- the original concept of Allaha is not the same as the modern concept of 'God.'
The original concept of 'Allaha', which appeared about six thousand years ago, was a reflection on the wondrous existence of the world, with its stars and celestial bodies resplendent in the night sky, the appearance of the sun on the horizon in the mornings, its warmth and the affect it had on the plants, and the flowering of the earth as a result of it -- everything really that was observed in nature filled the hearts and minds of early man with the wonder of being a human being.
But going back again, the word 'God' is more of a theological concept for modern man. Religious people mostly speak of God. God created the heaven and the earth, God blessed man with certain gifts, God was not pleased at certain things men did, etc. God became a word designating a higher being, a higher power, a figure that existed above in a spiritual sense; and in order to speak to God, men would climb a mountain and approach God with trepidation. Moses climbed the mountain where God spoke to him. Even other religions think along those lines -- a mountain, a high place designated to provide reverence and the possibility for communicating or receiving a certain knowledge that would bring them peace.
Sometimes God would punish sin; other times God would turn His face away in disapproval. All these concepts of God were recorded by various religions and passed on from generation to generation.
But when Eashoa Msheekha (Jesus the Messiah) appeared two thousand years ago, there was a change in the perception of these concepts. Eashoa Msheekha was different from other religious leaders. He did not appear as a prophet -- although He was considered to be a prophet by some of the people at the time. Eashoa had to explain to His Disciples that He was not a prophet.
He was the Msheekha. The word in Aramaic means 'The Anointed One.' But the word 'anointed' in those times could be a reference to the anointing by Allaha, but there was also the anointing by men. Anointing was an act of blessing someone, blessing them with a mission perhaps or giving them a certain position. It meant different things to different people.
When Eashoa Msheekha spoke about His own anointing, the anointing that was from Allahoota (Godhood -- a Godhood that He shared with the Father and the Holy Spirit.) A thousand years before, the Hebrew Patriarchs spoke of anointing also. It was a ceremonial ritual that designated someone for a certain task.
But the word 'Msheekha" was used by Eashoa only in reference to His own anointing. He was the Anointed One -- very different from the anointing that was performed by others; (today, the word is popular among evangelists; the anointing that is granted by some religious leaders, for example -- it is a word that is overused even; the word just doesn't mean the same thing anymore.
There is a difference, however, between the anointing by men and the anointing by Allaha. The anointing by Allaha when spoken of by Eashoa Msheekha was a special act that has relevance only to Maran Eashoa Msheekha. He was anointed as the Milta by Maryah Allaha. So He became the Milta Manifest from the moment He designated Himself on earth. That is the moment that He designated and the Holy Spirit testified to it. That is when the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit designated the new age of prophecy to begin. It was two thousand years ago, and it was the beginning of something new -- the old was no longer valid; it was fulfilled and it was transformed -- not into something different; but into something that was intended from the very beginning.
Today, Christians speak of God anointing His Son and sending Him to the world -- to sacrifice Himself on behalf of humanity, to wash their sins, to cast out their demons, to die on their behalf, etc. This line of reasoning leads away from what Maryah Allaha intended. The whole concept of God and the Son becomes completely misunderstood; the more it is defined and preached about along the lines of 'Jesus and the Father' being separate, the further it strays from the truth.
Finally it leads to the conclusion that Jesus was only a prophet. If Jesus was a prophet, that would mean that Jesus was a human being, as human beings go.
There are three major positions here, with respect to the concept of the Godhood.
The first one is that God is a singular figure, who sits in heaven -- the God who is manifested in the decree of the prophets (most religions have their own prophets -- those who are accepted by a particular religious hierarchy.)
The second one is that God is an ephemeral being who created the universe out of nothing -- the world as we see it (that is according to human understanding, the understanding that only the highest order of creatures can have) -- this God is pretty much what the Western world thinks of as the Deity.
The third one is that God is an all powerful Creator, omniscient, and omnipresent, who sent His Son Jesus to the world to die as a sacrifice for humanity -- the familiar story of the Christian Bible.
All these three positions are at variance with the story of Eashoa Msheekha, that a Messiah would come and fulfill the Scriptures, and that a new order of things would follow. This concept of Allahoota (Godhood) is at odds with all three positions mentioned above. And it is Eashoa Msheekha who brought this concept with Him when He came two thousand years ago.
He said that I have come to fulfill, not to change anything. And He didn't. But He did not mean that the Scribes and Pharisees (or the religious establishment) were according to His will. He never accepted their interpretations of the Scriptures, or who were the true prophets and who were the false prophets. Eashoa Msheekha never recognized any worldly order to be the legitimate one; He was the only Truth.
Eashoa Msheekha said regarding the Scribes and Pharisees: hear what they say regarding the Scriptures, but don't do as they do -- because they read the same Scriptures He was raised on, but it was their interpretation of the Scriptures that was false. That was the leaven He spoke about, when He said, "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees."
So Eashoa Msheekha introduced a new faith that was based on the original Laws given to Moses and recorded by the Prophets in the Ancient Aramaic language. This belief system was introduced with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It came from Jonah's Nineveh after the Ninevites followed the way of Maryah Allaha and accepted Jonah's reluctant preaching.
The Ninevites had invented the Ancient Aramaic language. It came from their cuneiform writing. The prophecies that were recorded in their language rang more true than the ones written by the Chaldean scribes of Babylon. That is why the Scriptures were recorded in the Ninevite version of the language. It was similar to the Babylonian language, but the Babylonian lacked the correct pronunciation of the names of people and places -- so concepts changed, just as they do with the Greek and Latin formulations. The Babylonian conception of Allaha was more compatible with the Greek and Roman concept of Godhood. This is how we ended up using the word 'God' instead of Allaha.
And this is the reason why the Roman Church forbade the use of the Ancient Aramaic language in which the Scriptures were recorded. All the Popes of the Roman Church knew the Ancient Aramaic language (because they had studied the Scriptures in this language -- some of them even corresponded in this language,) and it was only after Constantine adopted the Christian Faith and adopted the Greek and Latin Scriptures that the concepts of the Trinity (the original Allahoota or Godhood) and Eashoa Msheekha's Milta disappeared from the Scriptures -- the Scriptures that Eashoa Msheekha read from in the synagogues of Judea.
So, again, Eashoa Msheekha introduced Himself as the Milta of Maryah Allaha through many stages, for His followers to understand who He was and who He represented, namely the Allahoota in its three essences -- too difficult for some, but necessary to preserve when translating the Scriptures.
Going back to the Chaldeans of Babylon (and why did they allow the Roman Church to reject the Ancient Aramaic Scriptures, which they also read from,) it was for position in the hierarchy of the Roman Church, and subsequently in the Roman Catholic Church, where they are still the Chaldean Rite of the Catholic Church.
So, why not call Allaha by His true name? For the sake of position -- most people seek a position of power, financial status, or reverential address. But what do such people give up? They give up a clear understanding of who Eashoa Msheekha really is -- because the Ancient Aramaic language preserves the concepts of the Milta (Manifestation,) the Trinity (Tleetayoota,) Tla-Q'noomeh (Three Personas of the Holy Trinity) and Maranoota (Maryah Allaha as He was referred to by His closest followers -- He was called Maryah by His Disciples and Apostles, because He was One with the Father and the Holy Spirit.)
Moving on to more errors related to linguistic misconceptions.
Eashoa Msheekha was 'not the servant obedient unto death.' This is one of the depressing lines that longsuffering evangelists use in oppressive societies. Yes, it is true that Eashoa Msheekha gave His life in sacrifice, but it was His earthly life.
This line of reasoning leads the believer to a poor understanding of the Milta. Eashoa Msheekha did not come to suffer and die, but to die and resurrect. The prophets suffered and endured persecution, but Eashoa came to liberate and show the way to everlasting life.
Eashoa was not merely a prophet warning people against the 'Fear of God.' He was the Manifestation of the Father urging His followers to be 'wise as a serpent and pure as a dove.'
'To die in Jesus' has been misinterpreted; it does not mean to die the death. It meant to be dead to the temptations of Satan. Eashoa died so His followers could live. Yes, He died in sacrifice, but He did not want His Children to die as well. He wanted His Children to live in this world as well as to live eternally in heaven with Him.
Too much emphasis on His sacrifice as an 'obedient servant' misleads the believer into thinking that the life of the follower of the Messiah is one of continuous suffering and ultimately dying as a martyr.
Living in Jesus would have been a better way to explain the path that Eashoa proffered to His followers.
Eashoa Msheekha represents life, not death. He was the Milta of Maryah Allaha (the Manifestation of the Lord God.)
Eashoa Msheekha showed His followers how to pray to Allaha (to their God.) He was not Himself praying to God. He was merely showing those who would follow Him how to pray. This business of separating Eashoa from His Father has led to many errors in interpretation. He was not separate from His Father; He was the Milta (Manifestation) of the Father.
Eashoa was never separate from His Father. He was always with the Father. He died once on the Cross as a sacrifice. His followers were not supposed to all die on the cross.
'To pick up your cross and follow me' does not mean to suffer and die; it means to accept the fact that the non-adherent world is going to oppress His followers. It is to encourage His followers to deal with adversity -- which is a common phenomenon in the word; it is learning to deal with it that is the issue.
Eashoa wants His Children to live, and not to die -- put very simply. He asks His Children to endure in faith in the face of harsh treatment by the world, and to avoid being misled into slavery and sin, and to become victims of fear.
Everything about Eashoa Msheekha is positive; there is no negativity in Him.
July 3, 2016
