interpretations of biblical quotes

Biblical Treasure#1: To Detect a Lie

John 8:32 states “And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”  If it does not set you free it is false.

The traditional meaning of this verse is that the true knowledge and understanding of God’s word (the truth) will liberate you from the bondage of sin and bring you true freedom. I agree with this but I would like to elaborate on it a bit. To sin means to simply make an error, so from a lighthearted perspective it doesn’t carry all the gloom and doom. I prefer this view especially for day to day living and dealing with the simple things. A collection of daily errors (sins) over a long period of time even in simple things like health and finances will be to a person’s detriment (keep him in an eternal cycle of error and thus in the eternal bondage of sin).

We know that if someone commits a crime and then goes to the police station to speak the truth, it certainly does not set the person free, at least not here on earth. So how can this teaching be used for our earthly purposes on a daily basis?

I invite you to consider that when a person speaks a truth or a falsehood to another person, the person who hears those words is the one who is either set free or restricted more.

For example, if I say to you “do not ever eat any wild foods! Everything in the woods is poisonous!” Do these spoken words offer you more freedom or more restriction? Clearly, they offer more restriction because now you will be afraid to consume any wild food you may find in the forests. These spoken words are clearly false because many wild plants/mushrooms are indeed edible and very delicious. But if I say to you “wild mushrooms are very delicious but you must learn which ones are edible, which ones have poisonous look-alikes and which ones are deadly or have deadly look-alikes.” These words offer you more freedom because now you have learned that there is an additional source of food, but the words come with a caution. But words of caution can be viewed as liberating because they stimulate you to learn something you do not know.

Second example, what if I say to you “your children cannot attend school without the required vaccinations!” Initially, this statement appears to be true and yet it is restrictive. A context must be defined. Let’s first distinguish between the God Matrix (natural law) and the fake matrix. The fake matrix is the totality of all laws passed by legislatures and regulations put in place by government-regulatory agencies.  Within the fake matrix these words are true but in the God Matrix these words are false because they impose restrictions upon your life and daily living (assuming of course that your daily life follows the laws of the God Matrix). Needless to say, many laws/regulations are in conflict with God’s laws and on the individual level there are people who perpetuate lies and misinformation.

So, when you hear words spoken to you, those words will either set you free or entangle you further in the bondage of sin and you by your spoken words will either set someone free or entangle that person further in the bondage of sin. Always do your best to evaluate words you hear or read within the context of the God Matrix and the fake matrix. Let your inner intelligence guide you to figure out which are verbal lies and/or written lies.

I hope you find this view useful and that it helps you to navigate the maze that is our earthly existence!

Biblical Treasure#2:  To Think or Not To Think

Mathew 5:28 “But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”

Another version words it like this: 

“But I tell you if you look at another woman and want her, you are already unfaithful in your thoughts”

When I was seven years old my grandma told me that it’s not enough just to not do bad things one must not think bad things. At that time, it made no sense because in general as children we are taught exclusively not to do bad things. She never explained it further because she was always busy in the house taking care of everyone and everything. But now I will make a case for my grandma’s statement and this should be taught to small children who are old enough to understand.

I will equate both the heart and mind with a person’s inner being (the private world within). I will point out that anything which is “man-made” on this earthly plane experienced its original conception in someone’s private world within. Be it a sculpture, a painting, a car, or the space station, everything was conceived in the mind first.  However, once something is conceived in the mind it does not spontaneously appear out of thin air. The thinker keeps on thinking about it and in this manner, he holds it in his mind and this leads the thinker to take one step after another until that which was conceived within takes form on the physical plane. An automotive engineer would:

1. Think of something on wheels that we call a car.
2. Draw a rough sketch of a car.
3. After thinking about it some more he would decide how many different systems are needed to make it operational.
4. Then think some more and draw sketches of each system and more sketches of the many parts within each system.
5. Eventually all the parts would be manufactured thus giving them a physical form.
6. Then the parts would be assembled into their respective systems.
7. Then the systems would be assembled to form the car.

From conception in the mind to the physical “manifestation” of the car the time delay can be from months to years. During this time delay the engineer was in perpetual thought of the car and the methodology required to bring it into being.

Consider that there is not a single thing you do that is not first conceived on the mental plane. When you want to go to the beach, you think it first. When you want to go to the bathroom you think it first. When you want to become a doctor, you think it first and you hold in your mind for years as you go through the training (a long series of steps). After the appropriate time delay you are a doctor. In an identical manner, the man who lusts for the woman or vice versa will hold the thought firmly in his mind which will eventually lead him through a series of steps that eventually culminate in the manifestation of the act in the physical. The time delay is like a countdown from conception to fulfillment.

Words have power but I urge you to consider that thoughts have the ultimate power and must be controlled. The best way to control your thoughts is to practice controlling your words first and with “time” an undesirable/inappropriate thought that pops into your mind can be squashed immediately. 

Perhaps the “time delay” from conception in the mind to manifestation in the physical has a purpose. It would be unwise to allow us to physically manifest a thought in the blink of an eye. We would destroy ourselves and the earth alongside. Thus, the best way to teach us to control our creative thoughts is to create a time delay so as to provide an opportunity to repent (to change our minds) and break the cycle of sin (error). Perhaps we are the larval stage of a much more majestic being (caterpillar and butterfly) learning here in the child’s playpen that is our earth. If becoming such majestic beings is the human destiny and we graduate from this playpen the time delay will no longer be necessary.