Stop Misreading the Bible: Exodus 3, Genesis 1, and Romans 5: A Tirade
Just as the first Gospel was Mark, not Matthew, the first book of the Bible was Exodus, not Genesis. In Exodus, Moses was expert in the ancient myths of Egypt (and probably all those of Mesopotamia and Babylon). Read about them from Gerald Massey. Moses saw that something was happening in the myths -- man was going somewhere. There was a destined purpose for man, and he perceived action toward it was going on right then. Exodus 3 begins with Moses not quite able to figure out Jethro, the excellence of that future man and what was presently happening toward him, the destined end of man. He was missing something, so he put his thinking cap on and contemplated, "Why Jethro?"
God revealed what he is doing. Moses was on the holy ground of the Paradise of God, the end state of the Manifestation of God to come, the perfected Man: Eashoa -- the Life-giving, Living Branch of God -- without intermediary. The people "in Egypt" were the thoughts Moses had been having all his life due to the ignorance we all are born into. Referring to the Manifestation, the perfected Man Eashoa, God said to Moses, "I want you to become him."
Moses picked his jaw up off the ground and said, "How can I do that?"
"I am with you always. Use my nature to become him."
"And what is your nature?"
"I am Ashur, his becoming" (Exodus 3: 14; my take on notes by Victor Alexander [don't blame him]; see http://www.v-a.com/bible/supporters/exodus_1-4.html).
Ashur was the Creator God of the Assyrians -- the imagination of the Ineffable. That is God in us. This isn't remote control: he IS that. Note the third person singular in Exodus 3: 14. That is YHWH, the Ineffable's becoming by imagining.
NOW you can go to Genesis 1, which Moses wrote after Exodus 3. The imagining of God, YHWH, was the Beginning, the Creator. It was (and is) the "Son" of God who creates the heavens and the earth according to the plan the Ineffable has for the Manifestation of his emanation -- the perfected man Eashoa in the Paradise of God. "The earth was created for him and by him" (Genesis 1: 2). Him who? The him the Ineffable is becoming in Exodus 3: 14. What is he? The force that is creating the world, the imagining of the Ineffable -- our imagination (or at least what our imagination is becoming: the Manifestation of the emanation of the Ineffable in full maturity). The Ineffable is becoming it, and we are becoming it, and It, Eashoa, always exists in the mind of the Ineffable. (I wonder if this has anything to do with the two snakes entwined around the cross as the symbol for healing?)
The imagined perfect Man always exists in the mind of God. But that man also has to become perfected through the generation of God-like attitudes and character in us: we have got to know evil and learn to choose good due to OUR nature, according to our own free will. God's nature has to be formed in us like it was in him. From the imagined desire to the end product, man has to divert his consciousness and awareness (of being the Manifestation of God) to this state of forgetfulness. This state is the death of that awareness. We are him, the imagination of the Ineffable, doing his thing IN AMNESIA. While all of us are thus condemned to being unlike God to be developed and generated into his likeness, we sin. We are not condemned to death because we sin; we sin because we are condemned to this state of death, which is the loss of perception that we are the imagining of God -- Christ, the creative action of the Ineffable (i.e., YHWH -- the "Lord").
When the Ineffable determined to get to the perfect Manifestation of its emanation through generation in this death, we all died. That was the crucifixion to the Christ on this wooden stake -- our bodies. It was given man once to DIE, not once to live. We live over and over in this death until we are resurrected to Life. We are him died to become us to become him: the perfected man. As we are him, and sin only against him (because he is all that there is), there is no condemnation to eternal punishment EXCEPT HAVING TO DO THIS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. This is Temporary Assigned Duty -- three days in the grave to perfection, and then we are out. Not accepting correction can make this three days into a long, long time.
I do not know why this is so hard for people to figure out. Doesn't anyone know how to read? The Bible is really straight forward about it; you just have to read it the way it was written -- Exodus before Genesis, Mark before Matthew. Oh, and you have to read the real Bible -- the translation from the very ancient and authentic Aramaic that hasn't been edited all over the place, translated by a native speaker who knows the ancient. This isn't meant to be a shameless plug for Alexander, v-a.com/bible/ (though it will do); it is an impassioned plea for everyone to pull their heads out of their you-know-what and to read the Bible without all this God-damned Western dualistic literal-historical systematic theology. The Bible is about God, and he is eternally us. It is psychological, a how-to success manual for effective imagining and prayer. It is not a history, unless you consider it a history of yourself (which you ought). We are the imagining of the ineffable, Most High God. We have been dumbed-down for a season, yes, but we are supposed to overcome this ignorance. We are called to be the Lamb of God, the imagining of the Ineffable, because he is what has become us and is what we are becoming. I love Ray Summers' conclusion:
"Worthy is the Lamb!"
God revealed what he is doing. Moses was on the holy ground of the Paradise of God, the end state of the Manifestation of God to come, the perfected Man: Eashoa -- the Life-giving, Living Branch of God -- without intermediary. The people "in Egypt" were the thoughts Moses had been having all his life due to the ignorance we all are born into. Referring to the Manifestation, the perfected Man Eashoa, God said to Moses, "I want you to become him."
Moses picked his jaw up off the ground and said, "How can I do that?"
"I am with you always. Use my nature to become him."
"And what is your nature?"
"I am Ashur, his becoming" (Exodus 3: 14; my take on notes by Victor Alexander [don't blame him]; see http://www.v-a.com/bible/supporters/exodus_1-4.html).
Ashur was the Creator God of the Assyrians -- the imagination of the Ineffable. That is God in us. This isn't remote control: he IS that. Note the third person singular in Exodus 3: 14. That is YHWH, the Ineffable's becoming by imagining.
NOW you can go to Genesis 1, which Moses wrote after Exodus 3. The imagining of God, YHWH, was the Beginning, the Creator. It was (and is) the "Son" of God who creates the heavens and the earth according to the plan the Ineffable has for the Manifestation of his emanation -- the perfected man Eashoa in the Paradise of God. "The earth was created for him and by him" (Genesis 1: 2). Him who? The him the Ineffable is becoming in Exodus 3: 14. What is he? The force that is creating the world, the imagining of the Ineffable -- our imagination (or at least what our imagination is becoming: the Manifestation of the emanation of the Ineffable in full maturity). The Ineffable is becoming it, and we are becoming it, and It, Eashoa, always exists in the mind of the Ineffable. (I wonder if this has anything to do with the two snakes entwined around the cross as the symbol for healing?)
The imagined perfect Man always exists in the mind of God. But that man also has to become perfected through the generation of God-like attitudes and character in us: we have got to know evil and learn to choose good due to OUR nature, according to our own free will. God's nature has to be formed in us like it was in him. From the imagined desire to the end product, man has to divert his consciousness and awareness (of being the Manifestation of God) to this state of forgetfulness. This state is the death of that awareness. We are him, the imagination of the Ineffable, doing his thing IN AMNESIA. While all of us are thus condemned to being unlike God to be developed and generated into his likeness, we sin. We are not condemned to death because we sin; we sin because we are condemned to this state of death, which is the loss of perception that we are the imagining of God -- Christ, the creative action of the Ineffable (i.e., YHWH -- the "Lord").
When the Ineffable determined to get to the perfect Manifestation of its emanation through generation in this death, we all died. That was the crucifixion to the Christ on this wooden stake -- our bodies. It was given man once to DIE, not once to live. We live over and over in this death until we are resurrected to Life. We are him died to become us to become him: the perfected man. As we are him, and sin only against him (because he is all that there is), there is no condemnation to eternal punishment EXCEPT HAVING TO DO THIS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. This is Temporary Assigned Duty -- three days in the grave to perfection, and then we are out. Not accepting correction can make this three days into a long, long time.
I do not know why this is so hard for people to figure out. Doesn't anyone know how to read? The Bible is really straight forward about it; you just have to read it the way it was written -- Exodus before Genesis, Mark before Matthew. Oh, and you have to read the real Bible -- the translation from the very ancient and authentic Aramaic that hasn't been edited all over the place, translated by a native speaker who knows the ancient. This isn't meant to be a shameless plug for Alexander, v-a.com/bible/ (though it will do); it is an impassioned plea for everyone to pull their heads out of their you-know-what and to read the Bible without all this God-damned Western dualistic literal-historical systematic theology. The Bible is about God, and he is eternally us. It is psychological, a how-to success manual for effective imagining and prayer. It is not a history, unless you consider it a history of yourself (which you ought). We are the imagining of the ineffable, Most High God. We have been dumbed-down for a season, yes, but we are supposed to overcome this ignorance. We are called to be the Lamb of God, the imagining of the Ineffable, because he is what has become us and is what we are becoming. I love Ray Summers' conclusion:
"Worthy is the Lamb!"
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