John Luke

I am.

So I went on the rabbit hole.

Uh-oh, J's alert.

Rabbit hole while back on these Targums.

I started reading some of the Targumists, and it would –

These guys would take the Hebrew scriptures and they would put them in Aramaic so that they could understand it.

They would teach it to a Greco-Roman audience so that people could receive it in their own kind of native tongue.

And so they had recognized that there was a dilemma in the Old Testament when it talked about Yahweh.

and they called it the two Yahwehs theory, and they're like, it seems like there's two different Yahwehs.

Yeah, that's all there, and it exists.

But they recognized this dilemma, which is interesting, because when they translated, they would have Yahweh, and then they would have another phrase called the Word of Yahweh, which would be the Logos of Yahweh.

So when you get to John 1...

then you're like in the beginning was the logos.

Well, I know we're out of time here, but I'll end with this.

This is one of the things I do appreciate about your tradition is understanding and really kind of trying to read the Bible through this lens of God's presence.

Because it seems to be that's the centerpiece of the story.

So whatever your view of the atonement is, atonement is an entry point into presence.

It's not the end.

It's the entry point into the very presence of Christ.

Well, we are out of time.