Genesis 1: 1and the Son of Man: Our Becoming Fully Human -- Victor Alexander Corrects My Speculations

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From: imagicworldview@aol.com
To: vic@v-a.com
Subject: I used you as reference

Mr. Alexander,

I was struggling to express a thought connecting your translation of Exodus 3: 14 with Genesis 1: 1 http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2016/02/victor-alexanders-translation-of.html. I used you as reference (not for my ideas, but they would not have been possible without your translations). Perhaps you could take a look and see if I have gotten too far afield.
Thanks.

Dan Steele
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vic Alexander vic@v-a.com
To: imagicworldview imagicworldview@aol.com
Subject: Re: I used you as reference

Hi Dan,

No, you are on track. I enjoy reading your blog posts. It's the best use of my translations. All I can hope to do is preserve the original wordings of the Scriptures.

I'll read it again later today.

With Maryah's blessings,
Vic
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vic Alexander vic@v-a.com
To: imagicworldview imagicworldview@aol.com
Subject: Re: I used you as reference

Hi Dan,

Alright, I understand where you're coming from, I know where you're going, but I'm not sure about the conclusion.

It seems to me, you're following the logic of 'becoming one with God.' Instead you should be following the logic of 'becoming a human being' (barnashah, bar=son, na-sha=human.) In English, it translates as becoming a 'Son of Man.' Eashoa refers to Himself as 'bar-na-sha' or 'son of man.'

He is literally saying that He is a human being, but He also asks His followers to become 'human beings.' He is inviting his followers to become fully human!

In that way you also want people to understand that we have the potential to rise to a much fuller stature as children of God.

So, only the ending throws me off: that you are espousing for people to become 'God.'

Your analysis of the words and concepts otherwise is accurate; but you drop the reverence for the Creator a bit.

Let me know what you think. Please clarify your theology some more. You're definitely on to something.

With Maryah's blessings,

Vic
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Vic,

Thank you. As I have neither the Aramaic text not the ability to read it, I was unaware of the word barnashah. It is a game-changer in the understanding of Genesis 1: 1 toward the way I now understand it, which is as an expression of Exodus 3: 14.

No, I am not saying to become one with God. I am saying that even in this state we are one with God; that He is in this state as us. We are Him -- an aspect of Him in this state of development.

We are Him in the state of becoming fully human as the human is destined to become fully Him. We are not the ones doing this; HE is the one doing it. He just happens to be us. I am not saying to become God, but to become God-like because He is what we are. We have a lot of room for improvement.

There is a point at which we will be fully reconciled with God -- our natures, that is (attitudes, values, principles) -- when our human-ness coincides with His God-ness. In my theology, the Ineffable planned His manifestation as Man, the human being Eashoa, becoming through the development we are now in. He, the Manifestation, is the end we are all going to -- the "Him" of Exodus 3: 14's hiyeh (-- the Him of Genesis 1: 2, the Eashoa Msheekha of Mark, and the Lamb Who is worthy in John's Revelation). The planned Man is there already, for the Ineffable imagines the conclusion of the process. Us, not so much. But we shall be as He is.

The Ineffable is exactly that: there is not anything we can know about Him. But I think we can conclude that He imagines. We are His portrait, and we are consciousness imagining. We know (kind of) that the universe is made up of particles. What if His consciousness is made up of particles also? What if we are specks of His consciousness, and He want us to be just like Him? Instead of following suit, to be suit. We need to evolve in the character of our imagining.

If the Ineffable imagines, and His imagining is His "Son," His perfect manifestation Man imagines also, and his imagining is his "son." We are all part of that perfected end Man, and his imagining, the son of Man, exists in us. I know that he has spoken to me, healed me, and provides for me. As a particle of His consciousness, I am ignorant of what I am to be. The son of man has come not from a distance but from the silence of my ignorance to guide me into His likeness, to the planned humanhood -- the perfect Manifestation of the Ineffable. I just have to get over this ignorance.

Sorry. Got kind of preachy. I know this is all speculative and hard to follow. I will review and work on your suggestions.

Thanks again. God bless your work.

Dan Steele
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If Mr. Alexander responds to my e-mail, I will post it here.

In the meantime, please visit and explore the many facets of his web site at v-a.com and v-a.com/bible/. If any of the above finds resonance with you and/or is enlightening,  remember I would never have had any of these thoughts if it were not for Alexander's translations (well, okay, Neville Goddard's lectures have had a lot to do with them, too). Push the envelope of your humanness toward manifesting His Godhood.