Wonderful discourse my friend.
Thank you for the great response LT.
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What is this idea of yours about Abraham opening my eyes
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Equate Abraham as God who gives as He wills blessings of spiritual insight, one may see the spiritual significance of such stories, be it real or not.
Such as a parable.
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Do you not understand the mechanism of why you believe what you do?
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Absolutely! My whole basis of understanding is based on the foundation of Gods work in the affairs of human history.
Mankind's state in four stages:
1. The creation = Adam
2. The fall = the gaining of knowledge via intelligence
3. The trial = the ability to choose, becoming as gods
4. Death = the consequences of it all
Those four is mankind plagued with; bar none. Even the Christ.
Show me where by what form God/no God has mankind acquired those four stages in life?
Are we all not subject to the following, god or no god:
We are all born, stage one.
We all have some degree of intellect setting us up for a fall
We all share in the trials of life/struggles/travails
We all die at some point physically
Spiritually wise, the same applies.
We all have/made up of a spiritual side and a fleshly side, either one may control the other.
In that I find the basis of my understandings of the whole of the bible and its dealings with the history of mankind.
Where I used to read a ram as a goat, a lamp as a sheep, a mountain as big dirt mound, a flood as a heap of water, a serpent as a snake, the fruit of the tree in the garden as an apple, etc., Now I don't because I see the spiritual significance of all of them in the hand of Gods workings.
Blessings, AJ
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