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Water is used in the Bible to represent many things. It can be a vital source of life, as all living things on land need fresh water for survival. It also represents purification, used for both bodily cleansing and spiritual healing, such as baptism. In a negative sense, troubled waters represent the tribulations of the material world and the negative thoughts that keep us from a more spiritually realized life.
In the walking on water parable, Jesus represents the fully realized spiritual self, which is untouched by concerns of the material realm. No matter what happens to the physical body, the purified and spiritually centered soul rises above the negativity of the material and remains uncorrupted.
Peter, from the Greek word petra, meaning “earth”, represents the physical body. In this parable, the physical self can try to rise above the troubled waters and become spiritual, but will always be connected to the material realm by its very nature – the physical body requires constant care and nourishment, food and water, and will be unable to walk above the waters like the spiritually realized self. It’s possible to become so immersed in negativity that the individual can be “drowned in the waters”.
No matter how hard we may try, eventually the physical body will grow old and die, this is the reality of life, but our spiritually connected souls will remain untouched.
Monday, January 12, 2009
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Lao Tzu's quote: Soft and yielding as it is, water is able to slowly change things that appear to be hard and inflexible.
When the tide is just right, and you know where the rocks are, just about anyone can look like they're walking on water.
Sometimes, I think Jesus just liked to kid around.
Bruce
Although Petros lost faith and sunk, he was less of a weight than those still in the boat. According to the writing, he was more than halfway across the lake when this happened. For a lake with a maximum depth of 48 meters, those would have to be some tall, well-placed and well-spaced rocks for it to have been a rock hopping escapade.
You know there is a gate called Eye of the Needle which Donkey has to have their burden to be unloaded and couch down to get though, and as Donkey as stubborn as are is very hard to do. As rich people it is harder for them to humble themselves and unload their burden and unlike donkeys they have to make the choice on their own. They shouldn't be forced to they have their Agency taking away their Agency will not benefit anyone.
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