Definitions: Imaginary - existing only in the imagination. Imagination - 1. the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses 2. the part of the mind that imagines things Imagine - form a mental image or concept of Answer to your question. No. Please note... I left this wide open, so enjoy....
It says... Adam was split into "two"...male and female. That's a symbol of duality. But there is "no male or female in Christ". Christ is reality. Oneness is reality. Love is the only reality. These are words to describe the one reality. Genesis insists that there is both good and evil instead of only Love. That's a symbol of duality. Two arms, two legs, two ears...ect. More symbols of duality...made "real". Are you really suggesting our Father has 2 legs, 2 arms, a face, eyes, a nose, etc...? This is inevitable, that you will make an image of God in your own image. How is that different from an idol? But God creates only in His image, formless, unlimited spirit. God's Son, then, must be formless, unlimited spirit...exactly in the image of his Father. This is home, and this is Utopia. If formless, unlimited spirit uses its mind to make a new self-concept of Self, then it may appear in the form of man, or anything else. This is not Utopia. This is what it means to leave home...to appear in the form of man, woman, animal...anything that has form, and the illusion of energy that underlies it. Upon returning home, the Son finds that he was unable to change or alter his reality - his inheritance - by any self-concept he made up about himself. It does not follow. If God only creates unlimited spirit, then I am the Son of God, and never was I the son of man, and never was my appearance real. To "become" flesh, and to be flesh are not the same. Interpret "became" as "appeared as" and you have something to work with. Genesis contradicts my account of actual occurrances regarding the prodigal Son. Genesis "said" the Son was kicked out of home. I said he left home voluntarily. Genesis "said" the Son is guilty. I said he was not guilty, and neither does his father react as if he is guilty. Genesis "said" man is the image of God. This is the same as saying the image of the prodigal son is the image of his father...making the father a wandering, poverty stricken, seeker. If you simply interpret "image" to mean the "same as", you will see the problems in Genesis. Look closer and you will see that everything man symbolizes is the opposite of the attributes of our Father. For example: Littleness vs Magnitude Flesh vs Spirit Separate vs One Weak vs Strong Vulnerable vs Invulnerable Limited vs Unlimited Form vs Formlessness These are symbols of duality. To "eat" of the tree of good and evil is to attempt to make both true, splitting reality into real and unreal, true and untrue, Heaven and hell. To "eat" is merely to consider, think about, meditate upon and imbibe into the fertile ground of mind, where what is seeded grows to bear fruit. "Eat" duality and you will experience death, because there is only immortal life in reality. To die you must first have a body. Both bodies and death are illusions. You think temptation means to lust. I am teaching you that temptation is anything that teaches the Son of God that he is a body. This is what the prodigal Son fell for. And if you think you are a body, you'll fall for other bodies because that is all you will see. And you will notice that the prodigal Son still puts up a persistent defense in favor of the reality of his body. When he grows weary of it, he will go home. Jesus
Question 2 - No. Definitions: Real - 1. actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact; not imagined or supposed 2. (of a substance or thing) not imitation or artificial; genuine Fact - a thing that is indisputably the case thing - an object that one need not, cannot, or does not wish to give a specific name to occurring - happen; take place substance - the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists and which has a tangible, solid presence exist - have objective reality or being presence - the state or fact of existing, occurring, or being present in a place or thing objective- not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts being - a supernatural entity Hebrews 11:1 - Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Supernatural - attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature Question 1. No. However my faith in the existence of a supernatural being, called God or Jehovah, gives substance to my belief that he exists and that he answers my prayers and that he speaks to me..... My evidence is the positive results I get from following his instruction which I, again, have faith in and believe was placed in written tangible form which has been accumulated and is called The Bible. I'll be honest, if I had ZERO experience, I would have ZERO reason to continue to believe in a God that I cannot see. But my CHoice to take a chance on this unseen God yielded results... Those results gave me experience and allowed me to exercise faith in God again over and over, till I reached a point of no return.... My experience with this unseen God has proven to me that he exists, so in my world he is....
Question 1: Do you then consider God to be real? You consider God is not real but is real in your(imaginary) wotld. Is that right? May I conclude then, by the personal experince you described, you do not agree with this... "... these "friends" are not real and that they [children] will outgrow their need for such companionship with time.. "
Did the bible say that???? I yield to the Bibles version, not yours.... Genesis 2:21-22 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. Definition Split - break or cause to break forcibly into parts, esp. into halves or along the grain took - removed SO, no the bible said nothing about a splitting.... You did....