Holy: Understanding it Better As Knowers and Teachers

This is one of those entries where I need to say something about my other closely related blog on communication basics 101.  It is largely the best tool I can recommend for getting at the basics of meaning, as it relates to the meaning of holy.  When it all comes down to meaning, holy is likely one of five major classes of meaning or at least one class is primary. 

So if you want to understand those classes better, please check out my most recent entry: 
http://communicationbasics101.blogspot.com/2012/11/communication-basics-word-meanings-of.html  and some of the earlier ones in that same blog. 

They are very helpful for keeping things as basic as possible, but they also are categories that are supported within the scholarly community of translators, linguists and teachers.  The classes of meaning have credibility and credibility is what I try to add a little more of, in my latest entry.

Please examine the entry and then for yourself decide which one of the five meaning classes you think holy falls into as a word that posses meaning.  Another challenge would be to take the different definitions that are possible and ask yourself as one example, if "set apart" or if "whole" falls into one or more of these basic meaning classes and which one is primary. 

Theologians sometimes mingle these basic meanings, when it comes to "set apart", so see if you can figure out which meaning is primary or not.  Test this method for yourself.  You do not need to be an expert or scholar to test your knowledge.  It will not make you a scholar, but it can make you knower.  Enjoy!

In Christ,

Jon

Holy: Understanding Better Where I am in Studying This Key Word

I want at this point to give all of my readers a better idea of who I am.  The internet provides unmatched ability to give you a better sense of who I am personally without my having to travel to where you are today.  So today I am providing to you a video to watch that sums up where my project on the definition of holy is and where it is going. 

Here it is (simply click on the link below):


http://youtu.be/BV0p9aJs_QU


I hope viewing the video gave you a little more personal insight into who I am and that it also communicates where I am in the process of studying the meaning of holy in the Biblical text.  My goal from my studies is to be qualified to also teach on the subject from the Biblical text.  Remember from what I said in the video that being a knower is not the same as being a teacher or vice versa.  It takes both. 

If you have insights, questions, or comments; then feel free to respond to this blog entry and my video.  It is my humble wish that this entry is an encouragement to all who need it.  Thank you.

Sincerely,

Jon