On The "You" In Mark 4:11

This is on the Parable of the Sower in Mark 4. People call it the Parable of the Soils, because there are four soils we may be. But the point of the parable is that God sows His Word upon all soils. It isn't that the type of soil we are receives the Word, and the others don't (yea for us); it's that we may help the other types of soil to receive and understand God's illustrative language also. For God speaks to us in illustrations. Yes, God is after us, but He is also after THEM. Can we help the backward ones understand the Word they receive all day everyday?

I hold that that which we call God is the consciousness of the Ineffable No-thing, which consciousness has been generated, i.e., developed through self-discovery, over eternal time past. The Eternal (the One God Who is a Spiritual Unity) has been around for a very, very long time. During that time He has been becoming self-aware--conscious of what He is, what He wants to be, what He doesn't want to be, and how to get there.

From the Ineffable No-thing has come Its own consciousness, and from Its consciousness has come Its Milta (Aramaic), the Manifestation of Allaha, the Godhead. The Milta is (hayah) Jesus, and we are in the middle of that--bits of the Ineffable's consciousness becoming manifest.

God is hard-wired to become. What He becomes is also Him (hence both He and we are imagination). And just as over time He has developed and matured into what He is today, so must that which He becomes develop and mature into that which He is today. Do you see the problem here? It takes time to generate the self-awareness and God-awareness necessary to convert this (arms waving all around to indicate everything in the world) into His developed and mature manifestation.

Now, in Mark 4:11 there is a you spoken of: "And Eashoa told them, 'To you has been given the doctrine of the Kingdom of God, but for the outsiders* (lit: "the backward ones"), everything happens through parables'" (Alexander). The "parables" Jesus speaks of are God's Word the Sower sows to the backward ones--the rest of mankind--throughout their lives, in hopes of their becoming you. The parables of God are everything that happens to them that they do not understand, because they do not know the vocabulary of God. You do, he says, because when they were by themselves, they asked him, those that were with him, together with his Twelve, about the parables.

He is feeding us and hiding from the others? No. A lamp is lit to be set on a lamp stand. By what we measure it will be measured unto us, and more will be given. Just cast seed on the soil--all soils, but wisely--and let it surprise you.