I too did not believe in reincarnation until after I died and returned to this body. I accept the Bible as the truth, but recognize that it is also mistranslated and often misunderstood.
Most agree that Paul did not write the book of Hebrews. Paul’s name is never mentioned, and the style is different from Paul’s letters. Moreover, many now consider Hebrews to be a sermon rather than a letter. The book lacks the kind of opening salutation that appears in all of Paul’s letters (compare Hebrews 1:1-4 and 1 Corinthians 1:1-3). The book calls itself “a word of exhortation,” and this was a common way to refer to sermons (Hebrews 13:22; Acts 13:15).
Since the author includes greetings from Italians, who are apparently away from home, it seems likely that the book was sent to Christians in Italy and perhaps specifically to Rome.
Since the third century, Paul’s authorship has been questioned, and the consensus among most modern scholars is that the author is unknown. The 1611 edition of the King James Bible ends the Epistle to the Hebrews with “Written to the Hebrewes, from Italy, by Timothie”, and “translated carefully” into Greek by Luke, a thing demonstrated by its stylistic similarity with Luke’s Acts.
Doubts about Pauline authorship were raised around the end of the second century, predominantly in the West. Tertullian attributed the epistle to Barnabas. Both Gaius of Rome[
and Hippolytus[10] excluded Hebrews from the works of Paul, the latter attributing it to Clement of Rome. Origen noted that others had claimed Clement or Luke as the writer, but he tentatively accepted Pauline origin of the thought in the text and the explanation of Clement of Alexandria, saying that “the thoughts are those of the apostle, but the diction and phraseology are those of some one who remembered the apostolic teachings, and wrote down at his leisure what had been said by his teacher”, as quoted by Eusebius.
In Hebrews 2:3, the author states that this “great salvation” was “declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard”. This is usually taken to indicate the author was a second-generation Christian.
The early texts of Hebrews ended at 9:26. You will note that the scripture you cite, Hebrews 9:27 was added at a later date.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_46
Apothnesko, the word used in Hebrews 9:27, is also the verb the apostle Paul uses six times in his discussion of baptism in Romans 6:1-11. To understand the implications of Hebrews 9:27, we need to consider this passage.
What should we say, then? Should we go on sinning so that grace may increase? Of course not! How can we who died as far as sin is concerned go on living in it? Or, don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into union with the Messiah Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore, through baptism we were buried with Him into His death so that, just as the Messiah was raised from the dead by the Father’s glory, we too may live an entirely new life. For if we have become united with Him in a death like His, we will certainly also be united with Him in a resurrection like His. We know that our old natures were crucified with Him so that our sin-laden bodies might be rendered powerless and we might no longer be slaves to sin. For the person who has died has been freed from sin.
Now if we have died with the Messiah, we believe that we will also live with Him, for we know that the Messiah, who was raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has mastery over him. For when He died, He died once and for all as far as sin is concerned. But now that He is alive, He lives for God. In the same way, you too must continuously consider yourselves dead as far as sin is concerned, but living for God through the Messiah Jesus. (International Standard Version)
Three times (verses 6:2, 10, 11), Paul uses the term “as far as sin is concerned,” signaling that he understands that, by using the verb apothnesko, he is not referring to biological death. He is referring to another species of death, one related to our separation from sin, not life. We could say he is delineating his use of apothnesko to refer to the specific sort of death he is discussing in the passage.
Romans 6:7, often mishandled by translators, nails down the understanding that Paul uses apothnesko metaphorically: “For the person who has died has been freed from sin.” This is the only passage in the Scriptures where some translators render dikaioo with the verb “free[d].” In virtually all other instances where dikaioo appears, translators render it as “justify” (or a similar word).
The Disciples’ Literal New Testament properly renders Romans 6:7: “For the one having died has been declared-righteous from sin.” Plainly, Paul is not speaking of biological death, the result of which is not justification, not being declared righteous. The translators of this version recognize that Paul is not referring to biological death but to the death Christians experience at their baptism.
Their cue is verse 3, where Paul rhetorically asks, “Don’t we know that all who are ‘baptized into Christ Jesus [are] baptized into His death?’” In verse 7, as in all Romans 6, the apostle uses the verb apothnesko to refer to the first part of the act of baptism, the lowering of a person into the water, symbolizing death (that is, a burial).
Clearly, when Paul refers to Christians’ being “crucified with” Christ (verse 6), he is neither talking about literal crucifixion nor literal death. Rather, he is talking about death as the first part of the act of baptism, the descent (burial) into the water. Consistently in Romans 6, Paul uses apothnesko (“to die”) in this sense.
Thus “dying daily” is metaphoric, and not a physical death.
I accept the second phrase, but not the first.
Please illustrate the MISTRANSLATION you claim, else you'll be thought to be a Mormon.
Huh?
I think you are supposed to get a DIFFERENT body!
resort to elaborate demonic contrivances in seeking to deny what it plainly states when contradicting you.
Most agree that Paul did not write the book of Hebrews.
I never said or inferred that he did, which is not relevant to the inspiration of it.
since the third century this has been questioned, and the consensus among most modern scholars is that the author is unknown.
Which is part of your unattributed pasting from Wikipedia.
Hebrews 2:3 3How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; , the author states that this “great salvation” was “declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard”. This is usually taken to indicate the author was a second-generation Christian.
As in the apostles teaching men such as Apollos, a instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord (Acts 18:25) who is a possible author. But also not relevant to the inspiration of it.
You will note that the scripture you cite, Hebrews 9:27 was added at a later date.
You will note that you can only wish that this is what evidence and your source itself testifies - a 2nd or 3rd century manuscript - to:
31–39 Heb 9:26–1 Corinthians 2:3
Consistent with your reasoning, since - besides other examples - Hebrews 8:8 is also found in a different folio than Hebrews 8:9, and 1 Cor 2:3–3:5 is also found in a different folio than 1 Cor 3:6, than all such must be later additions.
Which is also irrelevant to the issue, since Papyrus 46 (P. Chester Beatty II) is simply a copy of a previous manuscript , not the original mss.
Thus your contrived recourse is exposed as sophistry.
Apothnesko, the word used in Hebrews 9:27, is also the verb the apostle Paul uses six times in his discussion of baptism in Romans 6:1-11. To understand the implications of Hebrews 9:27, we need to consider this passage....signaling that he understands that, by using the verb apothnesko, he is not referring to biological death. He is referring to another species of death, one related to our separation from sin, not life. We could say he is delineating his use of apothnesko to refer to the specific sort of death he is discussing in the passage.
Apothnesko, the word used in Hebrews 9:27, is the verb used 111 times, and only a very few times is it used to describe anything other than biological death, evident by its context, and which is not the case at all in Hebrews 9:27, as instead it is only consistent with the literal death of the Lord Jesus in providing forgiveness and regeneration, which thus means that believers look to His second coming and the realization of full salvation, which a consistent them in Hebrews, etc.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. (Heb 9:27-28)
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. (Heb 10:35-37)
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. (Heb 10:38-39)
And "appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" also flows from the previous statement as to what is to be dealt with:
Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.(Heb 6:2) Romans 6:7, often mishandled by translators, nails down the understanding that Paul uses apothnesko metaphorically...Thus “dying daily” is metaphoric, and not a physical death.:
Which is simply a desperate attempt to force a different sense into a literal one, all in order to support reincarnation and a false gospel of a "recycling level for souls that are growing but have not grown to transcend self or the physical body" to when "our soul actually expands to where the entire earth exists within you" with the “lifted or raised up” Jesus spoke of being raising your brain wave frequency above 40 Hz, with a purifying fire of esoterical Higher Consciousness, which deception is nothing new, as men such as Swedenborg, Roy Masters, etc. example.
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. (2 Corinthians 11:13-14)
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. (Revelation 20:10)