Sunday, April 19, 2015

The Temple is not a physical place - Writing for the Trashcan

Understanding the allegorical nature of the bible is the key to understanding what God is saying. Understanding allegory makes the difficult passages of the bible simple, it makes the confusing straight forward. The reason is because there are a few simple alternative ways to understand certain words and concepts, and once you do, hundreds and hundreds of other passages will automatically make sense. For example, the first and most fundamental change that you must make to understand the bible and God's message is the fundamental meaning of the word "temple". Most of us have been led to believe that a temple is a physical place, like a church, a mosque or a synagog. We have been taught that a temple is the home of God. We've been taught that a temple is a building. But it's not. A temple is not a physical place. It's a mental place. A temple is the place inbetween your ears. The temple really represents your mind.
There are a number of bible passages that state this fact is you just read between the lines a little. The word "house" represents the temple.
"House means Temple" - The houses of the zodiac are the 12 parts of your temple brain. 1 Kings 6:17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
How can a physical building be constructed in silence? 1 Kings 6:7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
And to jump ahead to my point, that being that when you change one major thing, hundreds of other things change, consider the passage of Jesus and the money changers. Matthew 21:12 "And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,"
Now that we know that the temple is your brain, we know that the bible doen't mean that a person named Jesus went into a physical temple to physically remove people who were buying and selling things. Instead we now realize that Jesus going into the temple means meditating and the money changers represent our greed, fears, and worries about money that consume so much of our life.

I'm not saying don't desire money, quite the opposite. Just don't make the chase for money who you are. Instead seek first the kingdom of heaven through meditation and you willi be told how you can get money. Matthew 6:33-34 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. 

I'm just saying don't worry about it, seek God through meditation. don't the  desires about having more money displace the joyous things that you could be thinking about. Don't worry about those things in life that you'll need money for, you'll figure it all out when the time comes.

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