Religion as Self Fulfilling Prophecy

[TheLightWithin]

Old testament is Hebrew and most of new testament is Greek, written by Paul.

Right, that's well known. And not really in reference to my point.
What I was referring to was your quote of Proverbs and the reference to Christ

Proverbs 5::21. For your ways are in full view of the Lord, and he examines all your paths.
5:22. The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them, the cords of there sins hold them fast.

There own sins destroy them. They won't repent. They hate God and body of Christ.

That is a Christian perspective, just a reminder that Judaism does not interpret passages of the Hebrew Bible in the same way.

 

[Aupmanyav]

In my story, there is a part of you that wants to help make the world better for everyone. It's a part of human nature.

Ego (as if one can make a difference).

 

[Longfellow]

Same story for me, but I do see the need to relax into a gapless, convergent, nondual, base that helps the efforts to make a better world emerge more gracefully and fresher, fuller—similar to how the mind can create better and think clearer soon after waking up. Hence the saying “I need to sleep on it.” The effort to do good pulls us to the surface and further from the source if we try too much or too hard (which seems to be our tendency, when we are not giving up altogether). The good God is the one we need but if we are stuck on our concept of good, it may not be the Full God. We must truly let go and then strive with a more relaxed grip on our doing of good. But not just let go and let God, because then we introduce the gap/separation that our Hindu friend (and me too) sense to get in the way of full understanding and full living. Perhaps Let go and let God guide our intentional efforts? A fountain flowing through us as us.

I see a need for non-duality also, but I'm not sure what to do about it, any more than what I'm already doing.

If the question is what to do with our natural impulse to want to help make the world better for all people, what I'm thinking most of all now is to stop denying, repressing and stigmatizing that part of our nature, and not blame the misuses on the impulse itself.

People without sufficient resources need to create more resources or make better use of the resources they had. How could one (or a group) do that? Find something that can create. The regular human mind can dream up all sorts of things and then create them. But a yet deeper Mind is needed when the situation seems impossible. More creative ability than we normally have. So they found the Creator/Father from which the mind could create needed resources or ways. Is it a separate being, or the very base of each of our being? Maybe it doesn’t matter as long as it works.

Separate being or very base of each of our being looks like a false dichotomy to me.

 

[Longfellow]

Old testament is Hebrew and most of new testament is Greek, written by Paul.

Hebrew scriptures are Hebrew, but Old Testament, maybe not. In my story, there's a very consequential difference between Hebrew scriptures and the Old Testament.

 

[Tr43]

Hebrew scriptures are Hebrew, but Old Testament, maybe not. In my story, there's a very consequential difference between Hebrew scriptures and the Old Testament.

I respect your thoughts and beliefs. I have strongs concordance of the Bible. Hebrew and Greek.
Old testament is Hebrew.
New testament is mostly Greek.
This is my side of the story.
Take care.

 

[Aupmanyav]

We have been given an intelligence to use..
"G-d is closer to you than your jugular vein."

. You have the book. What is the use of intelligence? Your intelligence cannot change the book.