{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"What the Greek Mindset Stole from Our Bible Reading and How We Get It Back","description":" Most of us were never taught to question the lens through which we read Scripture. We inherited a way of thinking from Sunday school, seminary, commentaries, hymns, and Western church tradition that many scholars identify as a Greek or Hellenistic mindset. But beloved, the Bible was not written by Greek philosophers. It was written by covenant people who thought in Hebrew, lived in covenant, told stories, kept the appointed times of Yehovah, and understood truth as something embodied, walked out, guarded, and lived before the Great I AM. In this teaching, we examine what the Greek mindset has quietly stolen from our Bible reading and what we recover when we return to the Hebraic lens of Scripture. We will consider: How Greek thinking spiritualized Torah and stripped the commandments of their concrete covenant meaning How the Hebraic reality and Jewishness of Yeshua were obscured How the biblical story was divided into law versus grace, Israel versus the Church, and Old Testament versus New Testament Why emunah is more than mental belief \u2014 it is covenant faithfulness How the Feasts of Yehovah are not abolished shadows, but appointed times, rehearsals, and holy convocations Why the Brit HaDashah should be read as the continuation of the Tanakh, not its replacement This is not about rejecting every contribution of Greek thought. It is about refusing to let Greek abstraction become the controlling lens through which we interpret a Hebraic book. If we are going to understand Torah, the prophets, the writings, Paul, the Gospels, and the ministry of Yeshua rightly, then we must learn to read Scripture the way the covenant people of Scripture understood it. So, beloved, what do you say we recover the lens we were never supposed to lose?   ","author_name":"The Messianic Torah Observer","author_url":"http:\/\/www.themessianictorahobserver.org","html":"