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Old 02-02-2006, 10:47 AM   #1
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Does that mean you think the walking-on-water story is not literally true but is metaphorically true?
Water is knowledge retained in truth that becomes like water for us to walk on and go by. The separation of water from dry land in Gen.1 is to make dry land the place for us to learn rationally and water becomes the pool where this knowledge accumulates over many generations. This accumulated knowledge is our Thousand Year Reign wherein we are God as opposed to 'like god' in our conscious mind. Notice that in the New Heaven and New Earth the sea is no longer to say that both minds have become one (Rev.21:1).

To walk on water is go by intuition, or by faith, which would not be the rational kind of faith that consists of promises wherein the water is parted to get into the promised land.

The "face of the water" shows potential only for God is not water (as in the "watery womb" which is the woman or Mary) but God is the stuff that mountains are made of on dry land.
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Chile, do you get these ideas from some arcane literature, are they products of your own remarkable intuition, or what?

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I am a farmer David who talks to himself a lot and these are some of the things we come up with. That would be "I, we four" as Zamjatin put it in "WE."
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