eightman Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 Trinity is word-thought-intention then action etc. This is self referential thinking; the mind already has thoughts and words and is just looking at itself and thinking that all is within this reference system, but the mind is just a neural circuit. It is easy to see everything as this "trinity" because everything is always being organized within our thought structures, within space, time, cause and effect. Everything exists only within the refernce system of ORGANIZED THOUGHT. So it is easy to fool oneself into thinking that word becomes flesh means our own mind and relationship between mind and matter. The truth is that the bible never talks about anything deeper than good and bad and human behavior. It then justifies anything with vague poetic phrases like "word becomes flesh" which could literally mean any of a trillion possible things. Want some alternate examples ? "word becomes flesh" could mean our thoughts become moving tongues and sounds. "word becomes flesh" could mean our thoughts become words which influence the fleshes behavior. "word becomes flesh" could mean god was first the word and then became flesh by becoming the christ. And you can invent many other INTERPRETATIONS and choose the one you like. The truth is the bible should be read and understood LITERALLY and all else that can't be understood should remain a pure mystery. The writers of the bible noticed that by saying vague - poetic phrases no one could quite understand, they could justify anything and no one would really try to understand them because they are to uncomprehensible. Many do similar things today in many fields like psychology, economy etc. Marxism was great with this technique like "dialectical materialism" etc. Just say vague poetic and strange phrases and you can sell anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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