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Originally Posted by OBW
Hebrews speaks of those who followed and trusted God. And the "method" and ways of following God have been spelled out fairly consistently in the OT, then enhanced in the New, along with a new and better way..
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Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
Worlds were framed by the word of God. We believe this. You know (a little aside here) that little children's angels can see the face of the Father God. But eventually we learn words, and represent reality, and create clouds of illusion. We frame our own illusory worlds with our words.
But there was one who could speak, and could see the Father at the same time. His name was Jesus. He was the incarnated Word. Hebrews 11:2 is saying that the faithful "word of God" of the elders pointed to the coming incarnated Word. See Hebrews' copious citations of the OT, with "It says somewhere", etc. The scriptural Word pointed to the incarnated Word, who points us back to the Father. Eventually we accepted some of these writings like the epistle to the Hebrews as scriptural (canonized) words equivalent to the OT scriptures.
I am saying that all scriptures point to Jesus, who points us the lost sheep, the prodigal children, back to our Father who art in Heaven, whose name be hallowed and whose kingdom come.
Now, you get wordsmiths like Cahn, and Lee, who should be pointing us to Jesus. But instead they create illusions of clouds of words, and peddle them by the page. They are mercantilists. They use words but they get caught in illusion. They probably believe what they write, which makes them more convincing. But when push comes to shove it's all about the Benjamins.
Me, I am also a wordsmith, dealing with illusion. I am an internet poseur. I really may have no spirituality at all. But at least I am not charging you money. I spin my words for free.