BibelSvar: Religious verses Spiritual

Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Religious verses Spiritual - map and landscape

How do we know who interprets the Bible in flesh and who are lead by the Holy Spirit ??

Think about two things: "Map" and "The landscape it describes"

Everything on the earth is like the Map. You ca read your Map and you can in your mind only think about how this landscape looks like. If you think that this map IS that landscape, you... are very wrong and limited.

So , the Map describes that landscape BUT IS NOT that landscape. So do the Bible describe the spiritual realm BUT IS NOT that realm.
This is very important to understand. That landscape IS NOT that Map but IS DESCRIBED THERE. SO, that Map represents that landscape BUT THAT landscape DO NOT REPRESENT the map, but is represented IN THE MAP.

In the same way this earthly life and ALL element in it DESCRIBES "Spiritual reality" and the Bible is telling us about that "Spiritual reality" by "earthly elements" like sea, mountain, woman, tree, horse, snake and so on.
Do you see now that you can not say that these "earthly elements" ARE "Spiritual reality" i.e. are that landscape but only the map.

So WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE between those who interprets the Bible in flesh and who are lead by the Holy Spirit?
Simply those who think that map (Earthly things, Bible) IS that landscape they are in flesh. (religious, Pharisees )

For example:
If people think that a "woman" in the Bible is "Earthly woman" they are in flesh. It is just like if you claim that a Map IS a landscape. You are then NOT lead by the Holy Spirit.

But if you understand that woman in the Bible is "Spiritual woman" and represents "Church, Gods people both men an women" then you will be lead by the Holy Spirit to understand what God is saying TO YOU.

And NOT what YOU SAY that God says to others by reading a MAP and claiming That "earthly things ARE heavenly" i.e. that "Map IS the landscape".

Those people are religious and not spiritual i.e LEAD BY the Holy Spirit. And they are NOT sons of God.

(This goes for all other elements too of course, like if you think that earthly snake IS Satan and so on, that is of course not true but snake is a spiritual picture of satan´s followers and satan´s character)

Summary:

What is going on here on the earth is just a "Map" of "heavenly things" but ARE NOT THAT HEAVENLY THINGS.

Do you understand this ?
You can also say: YOU can NOT put "your reality" in the Bible because the bible is map of Spiritual realm, and "our reality is just elements used in the Bible to describe spiritual realm, landscape".

But the opposite is true, in other words:
"This spiritual realm manifests in our lives"