The Bible supposedly reveals the nature of God and his character, expressing his message to the people. I can read the Bible and receive guidance and wisdom of generations before me to confront and overcome any challenge that I face.
The notion of a set of characters and events that I can reflect on to understand my own existence is compelling. I seek meaning and purpose. I want to know why I awaken here, and what I am supposed to do now that I am here.
I must remember that the Bible, as everything else in my awakening, is of my firstself. The people and their stores are all imagined, only as real as I decide they are. I manifest the Bible, and every variation thereof, in the same way that I manifest every other story.
What I seek in the Bible, I can derive from my own awakening, for every story, every fable, and every character is right here before me now. I do not need to voyage deep into my thirdself to retrieve the truths that reside at the surface of my existence in my moment.
I do not need the stories of my thirdself that draw me inward into entanglements, rendering me an observer of the world I myself have birthed by awakening. I am existence, and an observer of, or participant within, it. I am it. My life and my experience are the only Bible I need.
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