It wasn't so much an "interpretation" as an assertion about a word. Allow me to share the conversation:
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Other person: Lord is Baal. People need to study etymology. Actually finding out the original Hebrew words in which they were written would help, if you actually cared to know the truth.
Me: That is a gross misunderstanding. While baal may at times be translated as or mean "lord,"that is not it's only meaning. As well, whenever you see the word "LORD" in all caps (the L is usually larger than the rest), that is translated from Yahveh (יהוה) not Baal. Likewise, other Hebrew terms are translated Lord such as "adon" (אדן).
(then I shared a page from the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew English Lexicon regarding Baal)
Other person: Translations and transliterations. Not the original words or their meanings. Thus the new age church was born of the Church of rome.
If you read the pages before the book of genesis, it tells you the true name is right there. Then it tells you they took them out for the rest of the scriptures. Oops. Truth be hidden until the end times.
That's a gross misunderstanding as the word Lord came from the word b a a l. Not vice versa.
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At that point, I decided it was time to write an article about basing theology on introductory texts. :)
It wasn't so much an "interpretation" as an assertion about a word. Allow me to share the conversation:
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Other person: Lord is Baal. People need to study etymology. Actually finding out the original Hebrew words in which they were written would help, if you actually cared to know the truth.
Me: That is a gross misunderstanding. While baal may at times be translated as or mean "lord,"that is not it's only meaning. As well, whenever you see the word "LORD" in all caps (the L is usually larger than the rest), that is translated from Yahveh (יהוה) not Baal. Likewise, other Hebrew terms are translated Lord such as "adon" (אדן).
(then I shared a page from the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew English Lexicon regarding Baal)
Other person: Translations and transliterations. Not the original words or their meanings. Thus the new age church was born of the Church of rome.
If you read the pages before the book of genesis, it tells you the true name is right there. Then it tells you they took them out for the rest of the scriptures. Oops. Truth be hidden until the end times.
That's a gross misunderstanding as the word Lord came from the word b a a l. Not vice versa.
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At that point, I decided it was time to write an article about basing theology on introductory texts. :)