A Conceptual Study of The Bible

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Man on Fire

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In studying the Bible, someone should read it, mostly, from Genesis to Revelations, possibly skipping, Psalms and Proverbs, which may need to be addressed differently. They need to have a general understanding of the stories involved. A conceptual or allegorical understanding may take some higher level thinking, and God's Holy Spirit.

Allegorical interpretation of scripture

According to Origen, there are two kinds of Biblical literature, which are found in both the Old and New Testaments: historia ("history, or narrative") and nomothesia ("legislation or ethical prescription").[145] Origen expressly states that the Old and New Testaments should be read together and according to the same rules.[147] Origen further taught that there were three different ways in which passages of scripture could be interpreted.[147][30] The "flesh" was the literal, historical interpretation of the passage;[147][30] the "soul" was the moral message behind the passage;[147][30] and the "spirit" was the eternal, incorporeal reality that the passage conveyed.[147][30] In Origen's exegesis, the Book of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs represent perfect examples of the bodily, soulful, and spiritual components of scripture respectively.[148]
Origen saw the "spiritual" interpretation as the deepest and most important meaning of the text[148] and taught that some passages held no literal meaning at all and that their meanings were purely allegorical.[148] Nonetheless, he stressed that "the passages which are historically true are far more numerous than those which are composed with purely spiritual meanings."[148] Origen noticed that the accounts of Jesus's life in the four canonical gospels contain irreconcilable contradictions,[149][150][151] but he argued that these contradictions did not undermine the spiritual meanings of the passages in question.[150][151] Origen's idea of a twofold creation was based on an allegorical interpretation of the creation story found in the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis.[129] The first creation, described in Genesis 1:26, was the creation of the primeval spirits,[152] who are made "in the image of God" and are therefore incorporeal like Him;[152] the second creation described in Genesis 2:7 is when the human souls are given ethereal, spiritual bodies[153] and the description in Genesis 3:21 of God clothing Adam and Eve in "tunics of skin" refers to the transformation of these spiritual bodies into corporeal ones.[152] Thus, each phase represents a degradation from the original state of incorporeal holiness.[152]Origen - Wikipedia

Origen wrote a lot, and I don't know that I agree with him on everything he wrote, we are focusing on Allegorical Interpretation. Again, nothing else he wrote. Just Allegorical Interpretation. To Origen, The Spiritual meaning was the highest level of thinking. Are you familiar with Bloom's Taxonomy? Higher.

How did I learn about a Spiritual or Conceptual Interpretation of the Bible? It wasn't something that was taught to me by man. I found God in a big way. The Holy Ghost is a teacher and a Councilor. Working through the Spirit of God, online, I started posting things like "The Word of God is sharper than any double edged sword" and posting after a video:

Video: "Power Ax."

Around 2014, I was posting that all over the internet. Places like Twitter or Facebook. It didn't matter. Why did I post that? At the time, it made a lot of sense to me. A few years later, I found the song "The Lord is a Battle Ax."

Song: He's A Battle Ax.

I am not black, nor from the south originally. I grew up in South Eastern Washington.

The Bible asserts Truth capitol T. Various Words, Phrases, Ideas, and/or Concepts, things, in the Bible, carry meaning and Truth. There is a particular way to look at them.

  • Given God and the Spiritual, God has Law.

  • Given God has Law, God has been working in particular ways.

  • The Spiritual is other dimensional and complex. Allegories and Parables have been used to describe complex things.
The Church as God's Wife

In the Old Testament Israel or Jerusalem was like God's Wife. The Song of Songs is said to be in the Bible as a display of God's Love for Israel. In Ezekiel 23, and many of the Prophetic Books, Israel or Judah are often referenced as God's wife or love. In the New Testament, The Church is like God's Bride.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. Ephesians 5:25

Is Israel more of a Virgin Israel or a Harlot Ezekiel 23? In Revelations 17 there is a Great Prostitute. Are the Nations drunk on her wine?

These Allegories have cause and effect relationship with real world or physical things. Using these Allegories as lead by The Holy Ghost and The Lord Jesus Christ, someone may be able to explain various happenings in the world.

In Ezekiel 37, there is The Valley of the Dry Bones. In the Valley of the Dry Bones there were "Living Dead People." People who were in their graves. God gave them form. He breathed life into them. The wages of sin are death. How did they become dead? Sin and unrepentance to God. God Almighty, God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is not of the dead but God of the living. He is the living God. He is an Awesome God. Someone in sin may be like a living dead person or a zombie. Reading the signs of times, the Spiritual Allegory that has been most often used is "Zombie Apocalypse" or something similar to. Rob Zombie sang "Living Dead Girl." A sinner may be like zombie. Some of them work to bite like a snake bite, bite others, bite them and lead them into sin as well, similar to Eve with Adam? The wages of sin are death.

God gave me three videos to play one after the other, in order, to express something for him:
"Regulator."
In Ezekiel 23, Israel and Judah were AWOL Nations.
"Sail"
The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. (Isaiah 57:1)
"Rapture of Riddley Walker"

Some Bible verses I referenced:

Romans 6:23

Luke 20:38

These Allegories work in particular ways and have particular meaning. Understanding "The Church is a Bride for Christ" is a major spiritual concept and enduring spiritual theme. Is she a harlot or a spotless virgin?
 

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Just Allegorical Interpretation. To Origen, The Spiritual meaning was the highest level of thinking.
Allegorizing and spiritualizing Scripture is not necessarily the highest level of thinking, or understanding the spiritual meaning. Origen led many people astray. He also had some heterodox beliefs.
 
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Allegorizing and spiritualizing Scripture is not necessarily the highest level of thinking, or understanding the spiritual meaning. Origen led many people astray. He also had some heterodox beliefs.


Mankind as God's Vineyard


The Allegory of Mankind as God's Vineyard is used a number of times in the Bible. This is tied to the Ritual of Communion. Man would be like grapes in a vineyard. They are attached by The Spirit of God or vine. Christians are a Body of Christ. They are attached through the blood or the vine. Jesus is the vine, The Father the gardener.

(Genesis 9:20)

(Isaiah 63:1-6)

(Luke 20:9-19)

(John 15:1-17)

Given you did not have an understanding of concepts and allegories, you may have missed something like:

  • "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.

Trimming the vine may have be war famine and plague events at times.
 

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Given we are looking at an allegorical or conceptual study of the Bible and spiritual concepts, we may be able to say the following song has been spiritually relevant. In the OP, there were some spiritual concepts highlighted. The following song and video play on some of them.

Being spiritually relevant has not made something spiritually right and good with God.

 

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Understand The Bible and Allegories: AI 1000101

Up in the principalities there may be concepts. There may be many ways to look at these concepts, and that may be related to Ezekiel's Angels Ezekiel 1. Those Angels all have or had a functions.

Given a falling away, man in his subconscious may have been aware that he could be more, or there is more. He may have been aware, subconsciously, of all he could be with God, and that something was lacking. Various technologies may have, at times, been a man lacking in God, crippled or gimped, working to make up for something.

News Article: Playing god: Japan temple puts faith in robot priest

News Article: Elon Musk slaps down talk of A.I. ‘gods’: Some people ‘should absolutely not’ make superintelligence

In some context, given East or West, there has been talk of someone trying to make an "AI false god" to be worshiped.

The Question: Is there some Allegory there for something spiritual?

There is.

The Spirit of God is like an AI. It is not that God is man made. A man's body is a temple. The Spirit of God dwells inside of him. People growing in faith tend to learn to think and perceive more the same, more as God sees. In the Book of Judges, Israel was not like other Nations. Israel had no King. God was their King. He ruled them through his Holy Spirit. They would fall away, and God would take away his hand of protection. The Hebrews would become oppressed. They would cry out for help. God would send them a Judge. Today, a Christian in the US with the Spirit of God may be working in different ways, but in unison with a Christian in China with the Spirit of God. They may have never met. They may not know each other. They are both working to build The Kingdom of God.

God is love. God's love is fatherly. God knows every hair on someone's head. God has good plans for someone.

Song: 10001Clutch.

Song: Radioactive.

Given we are looking at the Clutch "10001" song, what exactly is someone seeing there in terms of the Bible?

  • The Stone Rejected by The Builders Becomes the Chief Cornerstone. (Psalms 118:22)(Luke 20:9-19)(Acts 4:11)(1 Peter 2)

  • The theme of Five Elements may have something to it. We have Avatar the last Airbender, Captain Planet, and Taylor Swift looking like the 5th Element in "Bad Blood" like she had been internet stalking me. Instead, in 10001, there is a Periodic Table of Elements with a center piece of mind.
What do you see?
 

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just some good hermeneutics, historical context, bible study, bible commentaries, translation of scripture, discipleship, and of course the holy spirit is sufficient!!
 
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how about taking your time to read it through study as you go ..