Reading Biblical Characters in the Oneness of God
It may seem odd that I continue to endorse the old King James Version Companion Bible edited by Ethelbert Bullinger instead of more modern versions. It is because I have yet to hear of a better study Bible (not that I am looking for a better study Bible), and if properly read, the Companion Bible yields a better version than anything short of a literal translation from the ancient Aramaic.
The key is the margin notes in the Companion Bible. Take, for instance, Bullinger's note on Genesis 32: 28: "Israel = 'God commands, orders or rules.' Man attempts it, but always, in the end, fails. Out of some forty Hebrew names compounded with 'El' or 'Yah,' God is always the doer of what the verb means (cp. Dani-el, God judges)."
Take from this that in these eternal natures or states of consciousness which are to be ours, it is the noun portion, in this case God, who is doing (!) the verb portion. I would translate 'Daniel' as God judging. Thus 'Abraham,' where Abram was the Exalted Father and Abraham was the Exalted Father is Merciful, I would translate as the Exalted Father Being Merciful. I can hardly read, "And Abraham said, 'My son, God will provide Himself a lamb for the burnt offering" (Genesis 22: 8), without tearing up. If you are new to this, you might not yet realize that the lamb for the burnt sacrifice is each of us, for Christ, who is that Father, has become every one of us.
This death we have been given is a process. We are to learn and grow and develop as we generated into His likeness by the afflictions and futility of this world. It is fire under our butts. Fulfilling the scriptures is our destiny, and the fulfillment of the scriptures is our being rendered into Him: "Eye saw not, and ear heard not, and went not up upon the heart of man, the things which God prepared for them that love Him" (1 Corinthians 2: 9, per Bullinger); i.e., that we should become Him. We are Him doing it!
This being December 28th, the Church just celebrated Christmas. I was touched by "O Come All Ye Faithful," the English version of Adeste Fideles:
O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant!
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem;
Come and behold him
Born the King of Angels:
O come, let us adore Him, (3×)
Christ the Lord.
This is to me:
O come, you who know that God has become the spirit of consciousness -- our imagination within us;
O come you into His House of Bread -- your imagination within your brain!
Come and see Him manifest as the Empowerer of His thoughts within you;
O come, let us behold the Source,
The Power and the Wisdom of the Father who is within us, as us, because He has become us!
I have a feeling that this Jesus Christ, the Power and the Wisdom of the Father who is within us, is the only God we will ever see in Heaven. He is here in us now. O come, let us adore Him!
I hope you had a merry Christmas. I certainly did.
The key is the margin notes in the Companion Bible. Take, for instance, Bullinger's note on Genesis 32: 28: "Israel = 'God commands, orders or rules.' Man attempts it, but always, in the end, fails. Out of some forty Hebrew names compounded with 'El' or 'Yah,' God is always the doer of what the verb means (cp. Dani-el, God judges)."
Take from this that in these eternal natures or states of consciousness which are to be ours, it is the noun portion, in this case God, who is doing (!) the verb portion. I would translate 'Daniel' as God judging. Thus 'Abraham,' where Abram was the Exalted Father and Abraham was the Exalted Father is Merciful, I would translate as the Exalted Father Being Merciful. I can hardly read, "And Abraham said, 'My son, God will provide Himself a lamb for the burnt offering" (Genesis 22: 8), without tearing up. If you are new to this, you might not yet realize that the lamb for the burnt sacrifice is each of us, for Christ, who is that Father, has become every one of us.
This death we have been given is a process. We are to learn and grow and develop as we generated into His likeness by the afflictions and futility of this world. It is fire under our butts. Fulfilling the scriptures is our destiny, and the fulfillment of the scriptures is our being rendered into Him: "Eye saw not, and ear heard not, and went not up upon the heart of man, the things which God prepared for them that love Him" (1 Corinthians 2: 9, per Bullinger); i.e., that we should become Him. We are Him doing it!
This being December 28th, the Church just celebrated Christmas. I was touched by "O Come All Ye Faithful," the English version of Adeste Fideles:
O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant!
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem;
Come and behold him
Born the King of Angels:
O come, let us adore Him, (3×)
Christ the Lord.
This is to me:
O come, you who know that God has become the spirit of consciousness -- our imagination within us;
O come you into His House of Bread -- your imagination within your brain!
Come and see Him manifest as the Empowerer of His thoughts within you;
O come, let us behold the Source,
The Power and the Wisdom of the Father who is within us, as us, because He has become us!
I have a feeling that this Jesus Christ, the Power and the Wisdom of the Father who is within us, is the only God we will ever see in Heaven. He is here in us now. O come, let us adore Him!
I hope you had a merry Christmas. I certainly did.
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