Joy2 on Nostr: "I don't want to believe, I want to know." 👍👍 #[0]

"I don't want to believe, I want to know." 👍👍

quoting nevent1q…csq6

The way I see it is that Jesus is a metaphore of the Sun.

- God's Sun
- The sun heals
- If looking at the sun at the sea at sunset, it looks like the sun is walking on water
- On the northern hemisphere, the shortest dailight of the year is on Dec 22th, it stays that way for 3 days. After that, day's will lengthening again. So, after 3 day's the Sun of God is re-erected, or born again. That's on Dec 25th.

The Bible is imo a collection of folklore stories that are altered and mistranslated.
Here's an example of a mistranslation:

Genesis 1-26
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

In the original Hebrew text, the word written for 'God' is 'Elohim'. 'Elohim' means Gods, so the plural of 'God'. And it shows, because it states: "..in OUR image". It also implies that there was already a mankind on earth before Genesis; "Let us make mankind".

On top of that, stories in the Bible can be understood literal or figurative.
Here's an example of this:

The Bible: "As above, so below."

Literal understanding: Above is the heavens and below is the earth.
Figurative understanding: Above is the macrocosm and below is the microcosm.
One figurative interpretation is that the macrocosm (above) means society and the microcosm (below) means the individual.
Others see the macrocosm (above) as everything that exists and the microcosm (below) as only one soul.
And some explain it like this:
The physical structure of the macrocosm (above), in this case the universe, is the same as the physical structure of the microcosm (below), in this case the atom.

People sometimes ask me: do you believe?

Well, here's how I see this: I don't want to believe, I want to know.

Or in other words:

Don't trust, verify!

Hmmm, sounds familiar! 😄