#4, RE: K'YANA
Posted by Paul Younan on Mar-31-2002 at 07:25 AM
In response to message #0
Shlama Akhi Stephen,Thanks for your very good questions. I hope I can answer them in a satisfactory way - but if not, keep asking on this thread until Tuesday when the website is turned off.
>Sh'lama Akhi Paul:
> I'm having a recurring
>doubt concerning the "chart". It
>stems from a preliminary study
>of the use of >face="Estrangelo (V1.1)" size="5"]0nyk
Understood. It's a tough subject.
>There is no occurence where ELOHIM
>is described as having >face="Estrangelo (V1.1)" size="5"]0nyk .
Sure there is! Especially if you hold to a 27-book canon (and I know you do.) 2 Peter 1:4. It speaks of the "Divine Kyana" in the Peshitto and Greek versions. Check it out.Akhi - a couple of quick notes before we go any further, ok? Bear with me.
First off, the NT is not a dictionary of Aramaic. Aramaic existed for thousands of years before the NT came into existence. Bottom line - just because the NT doesn't use a word in the way you're expecting is not the end-all-be-all. In this case, however, your 27-book canon DOES use Kyana in that manner (as it should!)
Secondly (and more importantly), Kyana comes from an Aramaic root which means "be/exist." If we were to say that God does not have Kyana then that would be equivalent to saying that God doesn't EXIST. EVERYTHING that exists has a Kyana - which in Aramaic is an abstract concept close to the English meaning of "Nature." God EXISTS, therefore by nature he has Kyana (pun intended.
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Akhi - by saying God has "Kyana" - I'm NOT defining His makeup, which IS Rukha (spirit). I'm simply saying that His nature is divine ("kyana Alahaya" as 2 Peter 1:4 says.)
Now about the infamous chart. The scope of that chart is NATURE (kyana) - that chart has NOTHING to do with whether or not something is spirit, flesh, or whatever. Kyana, Qnoma and Parsopa have nothing to do with Rukha, Nepsha or Neshama.
The scope of that chart is NATURE. Please don't read anything else into it (the chart) that it was not intended to address.
Finally, you said:
>...0nyk is a created thing.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Kyana is an abstract, it doesn't even exist on a material level (it's not concrete). It's not "created" - it simply "is."God has divine Kyana. You and I have human Kyana. Meshikha had both - thereby being the PERFECT Mediator between God and man.
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