God is consciousness and we have used it in bad ways.
The Bible is a story about the different ways we have used it.
By reading the Bible we can gain consciousness, learn of the bad our ancestors did, and instead aim to do good.
You don't know how to do good unless you have something bad to compare. For every Hero, there was a villain.
The knowledge of good vs evil, is just consciousness itself.
To know good, you must know evil.
The Bible contains everything needed to understand all this.
When "God" sends an "Angel" to stop Abraham, it is a voice of in his consciousness debating right vs wrong. Debating the potential consequences of actions. This was merely how they described the conscious experience. We actually do have "voices in our head", many of them, instructing our ego about conditions and feelings of our environment. When these voices are too prominent over the ego, or too loud in general, modern science calls it schizophrenia. But this is essentially how consciousness works. There is a subconscious made of many subtle voices.
We read the old testament and see an angry god, pushing genocide, supporting conquests, stoning people to death for picking up sticks on the sabbath. But hey, at least he sent an angel to stop Abraham from performing a human sacrifice.
What do you think, that the Bible is telling us to act in this way? It's merely telling us how dumb this behavior was, as an example of what not to do with consciousness. Their bad behavior came from God (consciousness) so we have to get smarter and better about using it. That's why the Bible doesn't say these horrible actions are wrong, because God is not wrong, consciousness is not wrong, God is unbiased and almighty, he (we) can do anything, but the way we use God can be wrong or not conductive to our prosperity. That's what the Bible points out.
God is consciousness and we have used it in bad ways.
The Bible is a story about the different ways we have used it.
By reading the Bible we can gain consciousness, learn of the bad our ancestors did, and instead aim to do good.
You don't know how to do good unless you have something bad to compare. For every Hero, there was a villain.
The knowledge of good vs evil, is just consciousness itself.
To know good, you must know evil.
The Bible contains everything needed to understand all this.
When "God" sends an "Angel" to stop Abraham, it is a voice of in his consciousness debating right vs wrong. Debating the potential consequences of actions. This was merely how they described the conscious experience. We actually do have "voices in our head", many of them, instructing our ego about conditions and feelings of our environment. When these voices are too prominent over the ego, or too loud in general, modern science calls it schizophrenia. But this is essentially how consciousness works. There is a subconscious made of many subtle voices.
What do you think, that the Bible is telling us to act in this way? It's merely telling us how dumb this behavior was, as an example of what not to do with consciousness. Their bad behavior came from God (consciousness) so we have to get smarter and better about using it. That's why the Bible doesn't say these horrible actions are wrong, because God is not wrong, consciousness is not wrong, God is unbiased and almighty, he (we) can do anything, but the way we use God can be wrong or not conductive to our prosperity. That's what the Bible points out.