Hebrew is more important than Greek. God's revelation came to the world within a constant of Hebrew-speaking people for over 1000 years before Aramaic and the Septuagint existed.
Greek New Testament is more important for Christians.
The behavioral stuff translates pretty well. When it says not to steal, it means don't take stuff that isn't yours. There's just some conceptual things that aren't going to be understood properly without digging into some Hebrew and what Jews believed in order to understand the contextual meanings of those terms.
The New Testament was written in Greek, not Hebrew. The Hebrew is the Old Testament, and, while important from a documentation perspective, is obviated by Christ fulfilling it through His death on the Cross. We don’t “need” the Old Testament, the Law, or even the “Ten Commandments,” unless we listen to the (((Judaizers))) Paul speaks of in Galatians.
Greek is more important. Jesus quoted the Septuagint, not the Hebrew.
What word do we look into to understand what the people in Israel and Judah were thinking? Is it sheol or hades? When we look into hades we're going to get a bunch of Greek mythology. Hades is simply the best Greek word they could find to replace sheol as a place where dead people go. Then there's "gehenna" in Greek, which is a construction based on the Valley of Ben Hinnom in Hebrew. I would assume this word doesn't have any real meaning or background in Greek and is simply Greek-speakers conveying a Hebrew idea. It's used by Jesus 7 unique times in Mathew with repeats in Mark and Luke. Jesus was speaking to people in Israel/Judah where they'd understand what this was. James says "set on fire by gehenna" in a letter written to believers in Jerusalem. Outside of this, nobody uses the term, and it's likely Paul is avoiding it because gentiles don't have any concept of what it's referring to.
We look into the Hebrew. I didn't say that the Greek was everything. I said that Greek was more important, over all, than the Hebrew.
Three languages are written on Christ's cross. Regardless, please read St. Paul's Letter to The Galatians, because through Christ, there is no point turning the gentiles in to jews.
I'm not trying to get anyone to follow Jewish rules. I'm just saying there are conceptual things in the Bible that can only be understood properly by digging into Hebrew. Sheol and hades are two examples. Hades is simply a Greek replacement for sheol that should be understood as that. So instead of digging into Greek mythology concerning hades, we're supposed to try to figure out what Jews believed about sheol.
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