WRITING IN TONGUES

que demonios I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND δεν καταλαβαίνω

We are getting to the place where people will not listen to the Word of God. They have become dull of hearing.The Jews had the same hearing loss so God changed His words from Hebrew to Greek. This complicated things for the Jews who wanted to know what was being taught by the early Christians.This was said by the Jews about the Greek language, “It was better to feed one’s children swine flesh than to teach them the Greek language!”

Acts 28:27

“For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.”

It was said that most of the Jews of Israel in the first century A.D. that they did not know the Greek language. A look at its writings shows how strange it looked to the Jews living at the time of Christ.

Παῦλος δοῦλος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ κλητὸς ἀπόστολος ἀφωρισμένος εἰς εὐαγγέλιον θεοῦ

To confound the Jews even more the Bible has been translated into many different dialects and versions of the Bible.

Isaiah 28:11

“For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.”

At times I wonder if Christians should use the original language of Greek in their writings. People today have become so dull of hearing the Word of God that I find it is too precious to make it easy for "God Haters" to understand it. 

The Bible warns,

 Matthew 7:6

“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”

The First Amendment, U.S. Constitution says:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

After reading the First Amendment I wonder how free our speech really is? If I worked for a news agency, can I openly speak freely of my religious views? Or if I worked at Walmart, will they allow me to express my religious views to their customers? The answer is NO. We work for them; they do not work for us. I also wondered if social media really gives us freedom to espouse our religious views? Social media platforms are private companies, and can censor what people post on their websites as they see fit. You wonder sometimes what gets viewed by the public and what is taken away. It might show up on my browser but for the most part it could be banned and isolated in cyberspace.

"Google, banned a message by orthodox Rabbi Yehuda Levin, labeling it “hate speech” because it criticized the gay rights movement,” said Craig Parshall, NRB senior vice president and general counsel, who heads the John Milton Project for Religious Free Speech. 

“For similar reasons, YouTube also censored a Christian youth ministry, You can Run but you can’t Hide International … This is a problem that cannot be ignored.”

It makes me wonder if Christians should start using language that cannot be easily understood and censored. For Jesus we can use the Greek form, “Yesous.” For scripture we can copy and paste phrases from the Greek Bible like:

Οὕτως γὰρ ἠγάπησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν κόσμον, ὥστε τὸν υἱὸν τὸν μονογενῆ ἔδωκεν, ἵνα πᾶς ὁ πιστεύων εἰς αὐτὸν μὴ ἀπόληται ἀλλ᾽ ἔχῃ ζωὴν αἰώνιον.

They are easy to decipher: Just copy and paste the phrase into a browser. What did I say? I quoted John 3:16. Let those who want to censor us, have to work at it. They would have to translate the Greek to see if we offended their policies. They won’t do it since they are not set up for it.

Instead of using God, we should try using different names. The word, God is a flag in their system that certainly will be censored. I am getting to think it is time to hide our speech under their radar and make it harder for others to know what we are up to.