Quote from arealpissedgoy:
Genesis states : So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them ( http://www.bibleontheweb.com/Bible.asp)
What do you make of that?
This is a
temptation. I see that you are
not falling for it, and bless you with a detailed explanation re: temptation. If you find it helpful, pass it along.
Temptation has one lesson it would teach , in all its forms, wherever it occurs. It would persuade the holy Son of God he is a body, born in what must die, unable to escape its frailty, and bound by what it orders him to feel. It sets the limits on what he can do; its power is the only strength he has; his grasp cannot exceed its tiny reach.
Because the Son of God is Created in the image of God - equal in all His attributes - a distorted image of him-Self will distort his image of his Creator. This can only happen in a house-of-mirrors, which is what perception is, and what it's purpose if for. For perception to rule, knowledge must be denied. That is why this world is a denial of the Son of God. From within this house of mirrors, the writer tells us what he thinks he looks like, and why.
Because the writer has given in to temptation, he must perceive his Creator as some kind of body - "male and female" - split into parts unlike each other...and sometimes at odds. This is merely symbolic of the split deep in the writers unlimited mind, about what he is. "What am I?" was the first question every asked. Perception was made to answer it incorrectly: separated.
Split, he imagines a world of exile, separated from a short tempered Creator who is just following a set of strange rules regarding obedience...rules that rule over reality. It is the original "straw man" argument based on convoluted reasoning, and false premises. The writer unwittingly passes these concepts on to each succeeding generation, filling each one with suffering, whenever it follows the false premise to it's "logical" conclusion.
Exile is a seriously insane notion - sin - and touches every "generation" that puts it's faith in it. The "blame game" starts here. It is the frantic shifting of imagined guilt from one part of the mind to another... seeing it as parted to shift guilt from one compartment to another. This makes compartmentalization "real" so that guilt can be shifted. Thinking guilt real, fragmentation must be real.
This is an explosive idea, giving rise to a "big bang" in consciousness. Although all it's seeming effects were undone in a single instant, time/space/form remains an illusive problem for its believers. Time/space/form is miscreation based on fear. It is a place to hide out from the punishment that guilt demands. It is a time and place where truth are not welcome. Bodies are places to hide from love, symbolizing the one place in the universe love cannot enter. The rest is "history", but it is also nonsense! Love not only casts out fear, but what is made of fear cannot exist.
Existence in a state of fear is problematic for a Son of God. It is not his natural environment. Such an environment exists so long as a Son of God has faith in it. Withdrawing faith, it disappears.
"Male" and "female" are images in the writers mind, made real by his faith in separation. Bodies, different and isolated from each other, are "logical" conclusions of such faith. Split, strong vs weak, this makes for great drama, but not reality. The writer says that Adam fell asleep. No place does it say he woke up. Nuff said!
The "writer" is a Son of God - asleep - giving his power to a "pen", scribbling dreams of exile, separation, guilt, death and images of violence. These are "real" so long as he puts faith in the mysterious "pen". The pen's "holy" book lengthens as it follows it's premise to the inevitable various, long, drawn-out, and bloody conclusions...all in the name of "God".
Regardless, you
are as God created you, and so is every living thing you look upon, regardless of the images you see. What you behold as sickness, and as pain, as weakness and as suffering and loss, is but temptation to perceive yourself defenseless and in hell. Yield not to this, and you will see all pain, in every form, wherever it occurs, but disappear as mists before the sun.
The images you make cannot prevail against what God Himself would have you be. Be never fearful of temptation, then, but see it as it is; another chance to choose again, and let the strength of the Son of God prevail in every circumstance and every place you raised an image of yourself before.
How do you make that choice? How easily this is explained! You always choose between your weakness and the strength of the Son of God - Christ - in you. And what you choose is what you think is real. Simply by never using weakness to direct your actions, you have given it no power.
In this way, miracles are as natural as fear and agony appeared to be before the choice for holiness was made. For in that choice are false distinctions gone, illusory alternatives laid by, and nothing left to interfere with truth.
The "big bang" is a temptation. A violent explosion, it is the neo-God, replacing the one in the Bible, making "man" in it's image. Have you ever noticed there is always somebody exploding itself in the name of God? Seemingly more benign, still, science would convince the holy Son of God he is a body...before supplying the ammo to bomb himself. Such a body is made "real" by the choice to hear voices of authority speak of "facts" in detail...talking heads...forked tongues. You get the point. Clearly, this is an old temptation in a new form.
All of time/space/form is "proof" of "existence". But it is empty and proves nothing. You remain as God Created you, a timeless being equal to Him in every way, regardless of what images of yourself seem to appear in your mind. Look at the premise for this kind of thinking, find it meaningless, and find your Self.
Jesus
