#7, RE: K'YANA
Posted by Andrew Gabriel Roth on Apr-01-2002 at 03:36 AM
In response to message #2
» Last edited by Andrew Gabriel Roth on Apr-01-2002 at 03:54 AM (GMT3)
Hi Akhi Don--
Okay I will try. First thing: Forget the chart for now.
Second thing: Think only of Y'shua Ha Moshiakh. Focus only on who he was, who he is, and what he did and will do.
Now, with that in mind, consider:
"My NAPSHSAH is troubled to the point of death."
"The NAPSHAH that sins, it shall die" (Ezekiel)
"And the ROKHA of God ROKHAed (breathed) into Adam and he became a NAPHSHAH KHAYVA (living soul)." (Genesis 2:7)
"...for he who is to be born is OF THE ROKHA D'QADOOSHA..."
"The ROKHA D'QADOOSHA will come upon you and the ppower of the Most High will overshadow you."
"And Y'shua ROKHAed (breathed) the ROKHA D'QADOOSHA (Holy Spirit)upon them."
We see here clearly these two words with different meanings. The ROKHA is the eternal spark given by God--the divine BREATH put into man. The ROKHA returns to God who gave it upon death. Whereas the NAPSHAH is the life force that dies with the body.
Every time therefore that we read that Y'shua is tempted, suffers, weeps and yes-- dies--it is his human life-force NAPSHAH. Why? Because Leviticus teaches us that the NAPSHAH is in the blood and that the blood is given for us to make remission of sin on the altar. The word for "soul" (NEFESH in Hebrew), can also be translated as "life", which is why in Aramaic the word PAROQA (savior)means "life-giver/saver", and that is why Y'shua chides the Perushim for searching the Scriptures for life but not coming to him to have that life.
So, how this all ties together is not the way RUACH/ROKHA and NEFESH/NAPSHAH substitute for KYANA/QNOMA or where it fits on the chart. But these sets of words describe the same fact, that both fully divine and fully human entities/wills are in Y'shua, but that the human part is subject to the divine while being in total agreement with the divine. That is why he said, "Not MY WILL (napshah) but THY WILL (ruach) be done." And when the two alings, "I and my Father are one."
At the same time, because Y'shua has taken on the mantle of flesh and CAN ALLOW HIMSELF TO DIE, he must be less than the Father in Heaven. God did not DIE, never did, cannot and never will. Y'shua, being free from sin, could not die either, EXCEPT BY LAYING DOWN HIS LIFE. HE LAYS IT DOWN SO THAT HE MAY TAKE IT BACK UP AGAIN, as Yochanan says. Nevertheless, even by allowing his own death, his sin free NAPSHAH could not stay dead and so--in just his case and those whom he resurrected-- the NAPSHAH and the ROKHA return and the former is re-animated.
At least, that's how I see it, but I defer to Akhi Paul if I have erred in any of these details.
Shlama w'burkate
Andrew Gabriel Roth