How to Stop Terrorism II: Strategically Communicate the Correct Theology of the Book to Overcome Ignorance
A very large part of the present problem is the mistaken notion Muslims have that Jews and Christians understand their own scriptures--the Bible or the "Book." Nothing could be further from the truth.
Jews and Christians, and thus Muslims, too, almost unanimously believe that the narrative of the Bible is a factual, historical record of people and events (albeit in some cases changed): that Adam was a man and that Eve was a woman made out of Adam's rib, taken while Adam was in a deep sleep; that Noah made a wooden ark that survived a world-wide flood; that Esau and Jacob were sons in conflict; and that Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt. All believe that Jesus Christ was a man, be he a teacher, a prophet, or God incarnate.
The missing factor in all of this is the ignorance of man. Our ignorance is vastly underestimated. "It is appointed unto man once to die" (Hebrews 9: 27). This "death" appointed each of us was the forgetting of what we are when we, the spirit of God, became born in this awareness. Our amnesia was amazingly thorough, and the problem is that it still is.
Thus Jews, Christians and Muslims alike THINK that we are people using our brain-based minds in a dual universe. Dual in that, even while we have a "spirit" which keeps us alive, it and God or Allah are separate, distant, and divided from us.
The whole point of the Bible is that this is a non-dual universe. THAT is what Moses was writing about. Dualism is our mistake from our ignorance. The Gospel of Moses is that we are God, or at least we are included in what God is. THAT is what Exodus 3: 14 is all about: our imagining is God's imagining, and that is how things come about.
It is admittedly hard to understand that the people and events in the Bible are states of being, understanding and awareness and their relationships. There are no historical people in the Bible other than ourselves, which is what the narratives are about. The authors of the scriptures used in some cases stories about historical figures, but the stories themselves are not necessarily historical. The "literal" part of them is what they mean about our spiritual reality.
Our spiritual reality is more real than our physical reality. For if we change our spiritual state, our physical state will subsequently change also. In the final analysis, nothing is real except the Ineffable, the Most High God who is the source of our imagining. Because everything ultimately is the Ineffable, everything is one. This is the meaning of non-dual. There is nothing in the universe but the Ineffable, and then only because It is imagining.
We belong to the Ineffable, and are the Ineffable however we be in ignorance. There is not one of us who is not the Father, and if the Father, then Jesus Christ--God's power in man and God's wisdom in man. This Muslims need to understand whether Jews or Christians ever do or not: Jesus Christ is the spirit of God the Father who became--and is becoming--each of us. "Spirit" is consciousness, and the consciousness each man, woman and child has IS Jesus Christ, God the Father--Allah Almighty.
If a person hate and destroy his fellow man, it is because he does not know the Father (John 16: 2). There is no service to God in killing Him. If you want to have mercy to God, love him. He is your fellow man.
Jews and Christians, and thus Muslims, too, almost unanimously believe that the narrative of the Bible is a factual, historical record of people and events (albeit in some cases changed): that Adam was a man and that Eve was a woman made out of Adam's rib, taken while Adam was in a deep sleep; that Noah made a wooden ark that survived a world-wide flood; that Esau and Jacob were sons in conflict; and that Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt. All believe that Jesus Christ was a man, be he a teacher, a prophet, or God incarnate.
The missing factor in all of this is the ignorance of man. Our ignorance is vastly underestimated. "It is appointed unto man once to die" (Hebrews 9: 27). This "death" appointed each of us was the forgetting of what we are when we, the spirit of God, became born in this awareness. Our amnesia was amazingly thorough, and the problem is that it still is.
Thus Jews, Christians and Muslims alike THINK that we are people using our brain-based minds in a dual universe. Dual in that, even while we have a "spirit" which keeps us alive, it and God or Allah are separate, distant, and divided from us.
The whole point of the Bible is that this is a non-dual universe. THAT is what Moses was writing about. Dualism is our mistake from our ignorance. The Gospel of Moses is that we are God, or at least we are included in what God is. THAT is what Exodus 3: 14 is all about: our imagining is God's imagining, and that is how things come about.
It is admittedly hard to understand that the people and events in the Bible are states of being, understanding and awareness and their relationships. There are no historical people in the Bible other than ourselves, which is what the narratives are about. The authors of the scriptures used in some cases stories about historical figures, but the stories themselves are not necessarily historical. The "literal" part of them is what they mean about our spiritual reality.
Our spiritual reality is more real than our physical reality. For if we change our spiritual state, our physical state will subsequently change also. In the final analysis, nothing is real except the Ineffable, the Most High God who is the source of our imagining. Because everything ultimately is the Ineffable, everything is one. This is the meaning of non-dual. There is nothing in the universe but the Ineffable, and then only because It is imagining.
We belong to the Ineffable, and are the Ineffable however we be in ignorance. There is not one of us who is not the Father, and if the Father, then Jesus Christ--God's power in man and God's wisdom in man. This Muslims need to understand whether Jews or Christians ever do or not: Jesus Christ is the spirit of God the Father who became--and is becoming--each of us. "Spirit" is consciousness, and the consciousness each man, woman and child has IS Jesus Christ, God the Father--Allah Almighty.
If a person hate and destroy his fellow man, it is because he does not know the Father (John 16: 2). There is no service to God in killing Him. If you want to have mercy to God, love him. He is your fellow man.
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