Symbolic Fiction of Literal Truth is . . .
. . . Confusing. The authors of the Bible wrote about literal, psychological truths in symbolic fictions. They hung the fictional stories on famous, literal ancients. I just posted about the recapitulation the Season of Grace was. It was a recapitulation of this age and of man -- a recapitulation of YOU, of your history as God-as-a-man until the fulfillment of your destiny: man in the consciousness of God, which you are to attain.
Among the search results preparing for my post was the following article: "The Failure of Daniel's Prophecies (2007)" by Chris Sandoval. I thought that was interesting because my neighbor is a Bible teacher named Chris Sandoval (there are hundreds if not thousands of them). Anyway, if you read any of that article you will see that the author picks apart Daniel's prophecy as literal history which he expects to be accurate to the very day. Because it is not, he concludes the Book of Daniel is a work of fiction. Duh. It, like most other prophecy, is a symbolic fiction of literal psychological truth. It's called the Bible, dude. Pull your head out of your you-know-what.
Sandoval assumes that the author of Daniel wrote the first half of the book after the historical events "prophesied" took place, thus its accuracy, and then made up the predicted future which failed literal historical fulfillment. He goes on to say that because of the failures of Daniel's prophecies, he (Daniel) must be a false prophet. I've got news for you, dude: the accuracy of the first half was validation of the second half. The problem is that YOU CAN'T READ. As a recapitulation, the conclusion of the Season of Grace had to be the state of man at the end of the age, just as God has determined. HAD TO BE THEN WHAT IS GOING TO BE IN THE FUTURE!
E.g., I am painting a picture of the history of man. I have to paint man now what man is going to be at the end of the age. What will that man look like? Like any man at the end of the age, though that be long in the future. What do we see of OURSELVES at the end of the age according to the painting? A particular man (men and women) at the end of the Season of Grace two thousand years ago: God in man in Christ consciousness. The historically manifest man was there. He (they?) was renown. Mark wrote a symbolic fiction of the literal historic person(s) WE CAN BE AND ARE DESTINED TO BECOME based upon what he knew of Buddha and MOSES' Judaism. What those people lived are lessons and teachings for us: the incorporation of YHWH in man's life . . . as it will be at the end of the age. It can be had now -- the picture says, "This is for you."
Among the search results preparing for my post was the following article: "The Failure of Daniel's Prophecies (2007)" by Chris Sandoval. I thought that was interesting because my neighbor is a Bible teacher named Chris Sandoval (there are hundreds if not thousands of them). Anyway, if you read any of that article you will see that the author picks apart Daniel's prophecy as literal history which he expects to be accurate to the very day. Because it is not, he concludes the Book of Daniel is a work of fiction. Duh. It, like most other prophecy, is a symbolic fiction of literal psychological truth. It's called the Bible, dude. Pull your head out of your you-know-what.
Sandoval assumes that the author of Daniel wrote the first half of the book after the historical events "prophesied" took place, thus its accuracy, and then made up the predicted future which failed literal historical fulfillment. He goes on to say that because of the failures of Daniel's prophecies, he (Daniel) must be a false prophet. I've got news for you, dude: the accuracy of the first half was validation of the second half. The problem is that YOU CAN'T READ. As a recapitulation, the conclusion of the Season of Grace had to be the state of man at the end of the age, just as God has determined. HAD TO BE THEN WHAT IS GOING TO BE IN THE FUTURE!
E.g., I am painting a picture of the history of man. I have to paint man now what man is going to be at the end of the age. What will that man look like? Like any man at the end of the age, though that be long in the future. What do we see of OURSELVES at the end of the age according to the painting? A particular man (men and women) at the end of the Season of Grace two thousand years ago: God in man in Christ consciousness. The historically manifest man was there. He (they?) was renown. Mark wrote a symbolic fiction of the literal historic person(s) WE CAN BE AND ARE DESTINED TO BECOME based upon what he knew of Buddha and MOSES' Judaism. What those people lived are lessons and teachings for us: the incorporation of YHWH in man's life . . . as it will be at the end of the age. It can be had now -- the picture says, "This is for you."
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