The Becoming God

Monday, May 01, 2017

Having Mercy On God: The Bible Specifically Says, "No Dualism!" Mark 12:29-34 (=Deut. 6:4) There Is Absolutely No Room For Any Separation

What I am now seeing in scripture is that we are to help God become fully manifest by helping his manifestation become fully like him. This is our being merciful to God. We can do this because we are him. We have been ignorant of this fact, and pretty much everyone else is still ignorant of this fact. Our part is to inform everyone of the fact that they are God; that is, to convert them not to an ism, but to the fact.

One of the "merciful to God" scriptures I found, Mark 12:30, is in a passage that precludes dualism--the notion that God is separate and divided from us and that his nature is wholly other than ours. It concludes that there is ONLY God AND NO ONE ELSE. If there is ONLY God, then we are also God and everyone else is God, too. We are to convince everyone of the NON-dual nature of the universe and guide them to assume God's character, the expression of his being, as the expression of their being.

This is the portion of Mark 12 which contains that conclusion in verse 32 (Victor Alexander's translation from the ancient Aramaic):

28. And one of the scribes came near and heard them arguing, and he saw that he answered them beautifully, and he asked him, "Which is the first of all the commandments?"
29. Eashoa said to him, "The first of all the commandments, hear, O, Israel, the Maryah Allaha is the only Maryah.*
30. "And that you love* (that you mercy to) your Maryah Allaha with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. This is the first commandment.
31. "And the second one that is like it, that you love your best friend* (best man/the one who is close to you) like yourself. There is no greater commandment than these."
32. The scribe said to him, "Beautifully, my master*, you said truly, that He is one and there is no one but Him.*
33. "And that a person should love him with all one's heart and with all one's mind and with all one's soul and with all one's strength, and to be merciful to your best friend as yourself, this is greater than all the sacrifices* and offerings."
34. Eashoa then saw him repeat the answer wisely, and he replied and said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of Allaha." And no one* dared to question him again.

*12:29 Lit. Ar. idiomatic expression: "The Maryah Allaha, Maryah one he is."
*12:30 Lit. Ar. idiomatic figure of speech: "That you mercy to."
*12:31 Lit. Ar. idiomatic expression: "Best Man," or "the one that is close to you."
*12:32 Lit. Aramaic: "Rabbi."
*12:32 Lit. Ar. idiomatic expression: "No others after Him," ... the holy Spirit witnessing
that Eashoa the Messiah is Allaha.
*12:33 Lit. Ar. id.: "Holocausts."
*12:34 Lit. Ar. idiomatic figure of speech: "No human [being.]"
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Note that verse 32's wise answer parallels Deuteronomy 6:4's e'had (one made up of many): YHWH is--e'had--one. "He, the e'had YHWH, is one, and there is no one but Him." Therefore, because there is no one but Him, THERE IS NO ONE BUT HIM. Being merciful to Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength MUST include being merciful to our best friend--the one who (whoever) is close to us.

My reading is confirmed in verse 33: "This is greater . . ."--"This," not "These." The two are actually ONE commandment united in the being of God! He IS our neighbor. Getting the one close to us on board with becoming the Manifestation of God that God desires is our being merciful to God.

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