osgart wrote:
Yet rationally wrapping my head around Noahs ark being an actual event makes me feel like a naive kid who doesn't yet know reality and cause and effect.
Sorry for the long post osgart..this will take some explaining....hope you bear with me...I'll try and put it in a way that a child can understand it..
No event ever happened...life is a seamless stream of apparent events THAT NEVER COMPLETE. As infinity AKA GOD ..expresses himself endlessly giving of himself..only to himself alone...apparent as he appears to himself as and through finite form the child ...like a mothers milk freely expresses milk to it's child only when the child appears to the mother who is inseparable from her....the child being God playing the reverse role as giver and receiver both.. as the receiver of it's own giving ...as and through in the finite vessel / body.
Events are fictions...of the infinite story teller, like dreams are to the dreamer.The dreamer cannot happen or be happened...it can only happen or be happened in it's fictional dream..this happening. The dreamer is Nondual awareness aka God dreaming itself as an apparent dual character...the dream of the dreamer being the characteristics attributes of the infinite dreamer God. Again, I'm just using the dream / dreamer as an analogy...pointing to the ONE being everything.
The stories in the Bible are meant to be pointers pointing to the one who is self aware as being a fictional character. So the stories are not literal, for a fiction cannot be literal, the stories are written in the form of allegories, metaphors, and parables... a kind of sacred knowledge in coded format. An awakened one will decipher the knowledge without much problem, because an awakened one is pure of heart being of the Father so to speak so will automatically see itself in the scripture. But any one with evil harmful self intent will not see itself in the Bible because that one cannot recognise itself there. Again, I'm only using this as a metaphorical analogy as to why some people are drawn to truth and others are not. No one is essentially evil here, there is only the one God taking on the double role...of both himself and the apparent other self, ego.
God the nameless, silent, blind, all tacit knowing one...can only experience, see, know himself as he sees, knows, experiences, himself as the seen, known, experienced.. as through the sound of his voice interpreted as his words...aka the explicit knowledge of direct experience. Here though, this knowledge is only ever God's tacit knowledge made aware to himself, become known, it is only known to God himself the real knower...
Knower knowing known are One...made known as and through the fictional character, experiencing himself as other.. both himself.
Only the love begets love... no evil one can enter the kingdom of love because it doesn't recognise itself there, only love can enter. God allows evil because he knows that evil is already safe in his love and cannot find refuge anywhere else. That's why he gives power to the meek since he knows they are him and will not abuse that power. But those with evil intents will not be granted eternal life until they have reconciled with the Father...for the Father already knows if he grants eternal life to the evil ones they will only abuse their power and reign that evil power on the world forever. So unless we die, and reconcile with the good one, only then we will be be given eternal life of love. But those who refuse to die will lose out..but they won't care because they will not know any different, they will live an ignorant life, and is why Jesus said, ''forgive them Father for they know not what they do''..so the evil ones are already forgiven....but will not enter the eternal kingdom until they forgive themselves...so no one is excluded, and that is what free will means, it means the choice to reconcile with yourself...you choose your own reality.
If you don't know your eternal, then you will live in exile of your real self...cut off so to speak.
In other words, what you choose to be you will become...and until you change what you choose, you will only be/ know that choice, and live that choice. No one ever forced that choice on you. it was only you .... But it's only ever God aka Oneness reversing his roles here. No one else is doing this role reversing but the ONE pretending to be other.
