time, space, matter, energy, life, death, good, evil, etc) is just a sub-set of God’s own existence.
In other words, the God worshiped by Abraham isn’t a physical being, but rather “the infinite Place”
containing everything else; the sentient and infinite Realm where everything else is happening; a sort of
Supremely intelligent “Warehouse” were all things [past, present, and future] are stored until it’s use is
required. And since this God doesn’t really have physical attributes, He chooses to speak thru parables, so
that we might at least remotely understand His ways.
Consider the following: God’s Law tells the Israelites that, if a man abuses the orphan and the widow, God’s
anger will kindle, and He will kill such man, letting his wife become a widow, and his kids become orphans.
Does God personally kills anyone? Of course not! What it means is that the Law of “sowing and reaping”
[which God Himself created] will manifest to be so ruthlessly unbreakable that the end result would seem to
be as if God himself had killed the guy.
Another example: the Bible claims there was a meeting in heavens, where God allowed Satan to rise against
Job, taking everything away from Him [note: Satan is an allegorical representation for the natural inclination
to do the evil that opposes God's will for our lives]. Does Satan personally goes and takes anything from Job?
Of course not! But the damage done unto Job’ property by the effect of the Tornado, the Chaldean raiders,
and the lightnings that destroyed Job property and sons could allegorically be seen as if God had delivered
Job into Satan’s own hands.
Truth be told, the Hebrew Bible was not only written by Hebrew people, but was also specifically written for
the Hebrew people [and maybe that’s why nowhere in the Hebrew scripture will we find a Hebrew person
ever inviting a gentile to embrace the Hebrew religion]. And since the Hebrew people were naturally born
philosophers, it is only normal for gentiles [who are not much interested in philosophy] to barely be able to
make any sense out of it.
How then can a gentile know for certain that the God of the Hebrews is real? Very simple! Using the “sowing
and reaping technique”; in other words, he can try sowing the goodness commanded by God on the book of
the Law (“NOW IF YOU REALLY OBEY THE LORD YOUR GOD’S VOICE, BY CAREFULLY
KEEPING ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS that I am giving you right now, then... ALL THESE BLESSINGS
WILL COME UPON YOU AND FIND YOU IF YOU OBEY THE LORD YOUR GOD’S VOICE… BUT
IT SHALL COME TO PASS, IF THOU WILT NOT HEARKEN UNTO THE VOICE OF THE LORD THY
GOD, TO OBSERVE TO DO ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS... THAT ALL THESE CURSES SHALL
COME UPON THEE, AND OVERTAKE THEE... THE LORD SHALL SMITE THEE WITH MADNESS,
and blindness, and astonishment of heart”- Deut. 28:1-2, Deut. 28:15&28). If after doing so for a prudent
amount of time, the person does not reap the godly reward promised to those who obey such commandments,
then the person can honestly walk away from it.
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