Misinterpretations of Bible Scriptures Cause Pain Rather than Opportunity for Healing

Kirk: A topic not too far into the future. I want to check one thing out regarding the Bible. There is a scripture that, when paraphrased, says if your right hand causes you to sin then cut it off. Given what we’re talking about, the verse doesn’t ring true to me. In the work that I do with individuals and groups, I never see cutting off or repressing anything as a solution. Instead, I invite my clients to get in touch with their inner self and discover the hidden essence of whatever desire, habit, behavior, or thought is causing the problem. Without exception, the fundamental intention of the energy was to move in a direction that appeared to be a solution when it was originally set up. The thought or behavior may be perceived as a problem now, but it was an attempt—usually unconscious—at finding a solution when it was first created.

For example, many people who have problems with anger or rage in their adult lives are covering up trauma and deep sadness from abuse that occurred in their childhood. They felt the problem of feeling powerless, helpless, and hopeless. As time passed, they created the solution—especially as they entered their teen years—of becoming rigid, closed, and angry. The solution to stop getting hurt then created a new problem: what happened as a result of their anger. To judge and try to cut off the anger, with no compassion for why it’s there, seems completely counterproductive to me. Could you go into the vibration of that scripture—not just in the Bible, but this thought form in general—and tell us what you feel is the essence of what actually wants to be communicated?

Alana: A misinterpretation happened through language. This statement feels like it was implying that if one hand is creative, impressionable, passionate, or indulgent, that it is best to not judge it (cut it off). But it became confused in the translation. It became that you must cut it off because you have been bad. What it actually meant was to allow yourself to find what the hand was searching for so that you can turn the behavior around, thus cutting off the limiting behavior through greater awareness.

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By Adam
2010-03-23 20:14:27
 

I have recently discovered many passages and stories in the bible that try to serve as important information regarding mans' origin and creator that are taken out of context due to the reader or listeners taking in the information too literally. It helps to remember there are many different versions of the bible, as well as stories written several different times by different people, leaving their own perception of what happened, hence the reason for several different religions who side with certain writings. We can't all be right. Why not try to make sense of all the writings together instead of picking and choosing? Search for similarities within them to find out more about what really happened. As they say there is his story ,her story, and then the truth. We tend to perceive things not as they are, but as we are. It's mentally restraining to rely on another single persons perception of an event, especially when dealing with such a big concept, but we do it anyway. Members of specific religions for thousands of years, conveying each other. If someone told you an alien species came to earth and cross-bred their species with earth's natural inhabitant a monkey, giving us intelligence, and leaving us in their image, you might be weary of that person. Yet most of you believe a half-man, half supreme being from the invisible heavens in the sky, came down, walked on top of water, magically mass-produced food from air, as well as wine from water, then died and rose from the dead, for some religions. I'm weary of the people who enforce that one. Think about it, read one of your biblical scriptures again, this time, stop absorbing the words and look for the information, for instance, by referring to the event where Jesus died, then rose from the dead, wasn't meant for you to believe Jesus was a zombie. But that even after his horrific death, his teachings lived on, not his deceased body. Simple statement for the writer, but the readers are never given a chance to perceive these passages as they are, from birth we are told what our nations believe and not to question it. And we don't, or at least very few do and are heard. If you'd like some more guidance on the subject of the real lives of Adam and Eve as well as origin, and other historically relevant explanations of the bible's actual teachings and stories then post something here and I would like to reply.

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