Page 42 of "The Present (with religion)" at truthcontest --- Jesus also said he was dead later, but he meant dead to life, not dead physically. Jesus said, “Whoever believes in me, but is dead, will live again.” That saying is the key to understanding what he really means. He cannot be talking about someone that is really dead, because they could not believe in him. Only someone that is just dead to life could believe in him. See what I mean? Jesus said, “I was dead, but now I am alive.” That is the only reference Jesus makes to resurrection in the Bible, and it is not referring to his physical death, because he said it before he died. The myth that Lazarus was physically dead and that Jesus brought him back to life was created by people misinterpreting what he actually said and meant. The big sleep: It does not seem like much of a miracle to just wake someone up from sleep. The interpreter did not understand what Jesus was talking about. He did not realize that people are living in a state of waking sleep, a living death. Jesus said, "I have come so that you might have life, for the way of mortals is a living death.” Jesus is clearly saying that mankind is spiritually dead. No one actually came back from the dead; that is impossible, but awakening from the state of waking sleep is possible. You just need the ultimate truth to do it. If you believe in the accepted interpretation of the Bible, you are asleep. The Lazarus story is a good example of how Jesus can say something profound and true, but it can be totally distorted and turned into a miracle myth. It is the same with the miracle of making the blind see. It is a metaphor for people that are blind to the truth and the life. He did not literally make blind people see. Jesus said, "If a blind man leads a blind man, they will both fall into a pit." The blind will see: Once his words are interpreted correctly, people can see the truth and the life that they have been too blind to see. When people wake up to the truth, they will see what Jesus was actually talking about, and see what he was really trying to do. The Bible says, in John 9, “Once I was blind and now I can see.” When you understand, it will be like a man who has been physically blind his whole life seeing life for the first time. It is a good metaphor, because when a man sees true life for the first time, it is just as surprising and wonderful. It is like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz going from her black and white world to the magical and enchanted Technicolor world of Oz. Just as a man that has been blind from birth cannot imagine how life really looks, a person living in their minds cannot imagine what true life is like. It’s a surprise. --- truthcontest/entries/the-present-with-religion/
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