Things Missed: the Theology of the Milta (Miltha)-- God is Different than We Thought
I have long heard it said that the existence of God is assumed in the Bible. That is not the half of it. I am finding that the God that is assumed in the Bible is different than the God we think was assumed. Typically in orthodox theology, God is the great uncaused cause, a Being that has always existed and who created all things from nothing--separate from It--simply by the power of Its Word. I am finding that this is picture of God is inaccurate, a misunderstanding of the initial assumption.
Moses' assumption, as I now see it, is that God is one uncaused Being without and with form. Moses starts with the revelation of the Milta (Alexander's Aramaic designation, Babylonian pronunciation 'Miltha'). The Milta is the manifest component of the Uncaused Being. IT TOO IS ETERNAL AND UNCAUSED, IS THE ETERNAL AND UNCAUSED CAUSE IN FORM. Hence, It says, "I AM." Moses was talking to the Milta. THAT is his assumption: God is the Milta. The Milta is the communicative form of the Ineffable: Its body, Its glory, and Its name. All things come from It and are of It and are for It.
The present weirdness is that the Milta is the Eternal Uncaused Cause's assumption. The unmanifest Ineffable Being has imagined what it would be like to be in form, and the Milta is becoming that. The Ineffable's imagining is done, and its fulfillment is becoming. But it isn't the Uncaused and the Caused; it's the Uncaused without and with form--one and the same Being. It's just the with-form component takes time. Hence, time exists. We're in the oven, cooking. The Mosaic Law provides some heat.
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