"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." In Modern Western philosophy the focus is on the individual: the me, myself and I. In contrast to this, the Ancient Hebrew/Eastern philosophy always focuses on the whole or the community: the us, our and we. When we read the Bible we must interpret it according to the culture of the Ancient Hebrews and their Hebrew/Eastern philosophy, and not from our own Modern Greco-Roman/Western philosophy. In the Hebrew philosophy, the goal is the elimination of "self," or the "ego." If what I am saying is true, then why, when we read Yeshua's words, do we always see Yeshua centered on himself, in complete opposition to Hebrew philosophy. A perfect example of this is John 14:6. "I am the way the truth and the life, no one comes to the father but through me." The answer is, we are reading the text wrong. We are interpreting it from a Western philosophy and not a Hebrew one
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