What does "blessed" mean?Happy What does "persecute" mean?Pursued What does "kingdom of heaven" mean?Kingdom of the air What does "righteousness" mean?What is "right" according to an "opinion" or "glory" or "law".

These ideas will be in the summary of the houses built on rock and sand at the end of the Sermon on the Mount.
Words in these verses may be code words, have double meanings, be play on words, etc. The Greek words may have been changed (mistranslated), omitted, etc. [top-down view]

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If you do not like the historical interpretation, as prophecy, just use the model to remember the order of the Churches, Parables and Beatitudes.

[spread spectrum communication]
[self-similar like fractals]

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Message of Jesus to John the Baptist (in physical prison):
The top-down verses (in English) may be more understandable as a bottom-up progression (as events unfold in time) using the Greek meanings of the words. Approaches to change: (stop, repent, be cleansed and walk).

The ways that six items can be ordered is 6! = 6*5*4*3*2*1 = 720 ways. Of these six items in Matthew 11:6, only two sequences fit - forward or backwards. Is this a coincidence?

The ways that six items can be ordered is 6! = 6*5*4*3*2*1 = 720 ways. Of these six items in Matthew 11:6, only two sequences fit - forward or backwards. Is this a coincidence?

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One can infer the word "blessed" or "happy" (same word in the Greek) for each if the parts of Matthew 11:6. One might assume that those to whom the action was done were "blessed" or "happy".

If the "Blessed" or "Happy" had been added to each part by Jesus, the patterns presented would have been much easier to detect.

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Here is a summary table of the comparison of the parts of Matthew 11:5 (reverse order) and Matthew 11:6 and the Beatitudes.

The rest of the Sermon on the Mount (102 verses) fills out these details. Much of this has to do with what to do, what not to do, and deceptions or traps to avoid.

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The Bible dictionary used by pastors, etc. is often explained away as being a different Greek, the Koine Greek, that the people spoke, with special idioms of Greek. Changes are often attributed to:

☐ Koine Greek being different than Ancient Greek.
☐ Originally written in Aramaic. Koine Greek had many idioms.
☐ English changing over the years.

A problem arises when ancient, medieval and modern Greek, as one continuous language, have the same meaning for the same word but the Koine Greek definition is different and matches the Latin word used to translate that Greek word in the 4th century. This happens with many important words but not so much with less important words. Suspicion arises when the common Greek meaning makes more sense in the Bible text than the English word based on the Latin word.

[Amplified Bible, Berean Bible, Bible Hub]
[language ambiguity, preciseness of Greek language fallacy]

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Here is an incomplete custom-generated chart from 2015. Almost half of the words in a modern Greek translation of the Bible are the same as in the original.

• Width of bar corresponds to book length. Genesis at left. Revelation at right.
• Words are considered the same if a Bible Greek word is in a modern Greek dictionary.
• Proper nouns are often the same but not accounted for here.



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In his On Sophistic Refutations, Aristotle says that from ancient times, nature (truth) and law (opinion) are opposites and that justice goes with the law (opinion) but not with nature (truth).

• "φύση" ≈ "nature, reality" (reality truth) as in "physics".
• "νόμος" ≈ "custom, law" (opinion truth) as in "Deuteronomy" as in "second law". The Greek for "iniquity" is "against the law".
• "δικαιοσύνη" ≈ "righteousness, justice".

Whenever Jesus, Paul, etc., use the word for "righteousness" one must determine from context what is meant. There may be double meanings.

☐ God's "righteousness" (opinion, glory, etc.).
☐ man's "righteousness" (opinion, glory, etc.).



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Aristotle continues about "nature" as "truth" and "law" as "opinion".

• "φύση" ≈ "nature, reality" as in "physics".
• "ἀλήθεια" ≈ "truth" as in "not oblivion" or "not forgotten"
• "νόμος" ≈ "custom, law" as in "Deuteronomy" as in "second law". The Greek for "iniquity" is "against the law".
• "δοκοῦν" ≈ "opinion, expectation".
• "δόξα" ≈ "opinion, expectation" as in "doxology".



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A stair analogy can be used to help understand top-down design and bottom-up implementation.

• The goal is the top of the stairs.
• The start is the bottom of the stairs.

Identifying the goal is most important! You do not want to climb the wrong stairs to get to the wrong goal.
Implementation:

• Do it: 1 to 2 to 3 to 4 to 5 (same either way)

Design: When it works, top-down tends to be better.

• Think bottom-up: 1 then 2 then 3 then 4 then 5 (start forward to goal)
• Think top-down: 5 if 4 if 3 if 2 if 1 (goal backward to start)

Gospels:

• Bottom-up: Matthew, Mark, Luke (goal not clear, a lot of extra material)
• Top-down: John (goal clear, no extra material)



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