PaRDeS

[Mary]

(01-11-2009 01:32 PM)sheep wrecked Wrote:  Levels of understanding seem to be real popular in Hebrew Roots and is slowly an accepted system for studying scripture, especially "midrash" even in Christianity

PaRDeS, a system for understanding Scripture, is an acronym for Pesha, Remez, Drash [midrash], and Sod.

Pesha is the simple or literal surface understanding of the text.
Remez is the allegorical meaning and/or cross reference to other texts.
Midrash is the moral and discussion of the text, or one's interpretation.
Sod is the deepest level - usually mystic and by special revelation aka direct revelation.

Jesus Parables have been classified as "remez". The book of Revelation is considered "sod". This is the Hebrew Roots application in which it is taught that both Jesus and Paul taught PaRDes

PaRDeS is a man-made system that comes out of kabbalah. Another one of those sneaky little anti-Scriptural concepts that are labeled as "godly", yet is anything but. Scripture clearly teaches that wisdom and understanding come from God via His Holy Spirit. Neither Jesus nor Paul depended on PaRDes - they were "inspired" by God

Those who promote "midrash" are simply teaching under the umbrella of kabbalah ......... not a good place to be

Some members of the small church group I go to are increasing their references to Midrash, a problem for me in itself, but a further problem in that the way they talk about it is confusing (to me anyway) in terms of what I understand Midrash to be. For example they say "X verse is a midrash on Y verse" . That just blurs my understanding , and from what I've been reading about midrash here and elsewhere, I think their understanding is blurred too - and I think this just leads them to accept anything that calls itself or lends itself to "Midrash".

This morning I found this article by Jacob Prasch, and thought it might be interesting to critique it and invite discussion on it - should make for a lively discussion

http://moriel.org/MorielArchive/index.ph...cob-prasch