Hebrew Holy Scriptures: Authors vs. Translators

 The Word of God: Authors' Intentions vs. Translators' Influences

When it comes to the Hebrew Holy Scriptures, there is an inescapable showdown between the original authors' inspired intentions and the influences of latter-day translators and interpreters - the very ones who constructed the Christian religion. It is an obvious choice to believe the words and worldview of the ancient text's divinely guided writers over the distorted lenses of those merely tasked with translating and transcribing their words.

How dare colonial translators and religious interpreters attempt to sway our thinking and obscure the authors' original meaning with their culture-biased, misguided renderings? We must return to the pure wellspring of what the original Hebrew authors recorded under the inspiration of the Almighty Author himself.

Today's Christianity is little more than an endless argument by translators and interpreters against the very authors of the Hebrew Scriptures they claim authority over. This is a grievous inversion of truth. In no other context would those merely translating an original work presume to know the author's intent better than the author!

The Torah is not limited to the five books of Moses - the Psalms enshrine the Torah in praise, Proverbs and wisdom literature reveal the Torah's wisdom teachings, and the Prophets unveil the Torah's futuristic proclamations. Even the Gospels present the Torah's complete embodiment in the person of the Living Messiah and pathway to salvation.

We must firmly reject Christianity's hubris in granting primacy to the fallible interpretations of latter-day translators over the Hebrew authors who recorded scripture under divine unction. Their role was to faithfully translate, not innovate a Hellenized religion counter to the authors' teachings and Hebrew worldview.

Let us return to the pure, unadulterated words and minds of the original authors as our highest authority. Their writings alone deserve our allegiance - not institutionalized religion's corrupted renderings seeking to constrain their transcendent truth.