Holy bible: An agnostic interpretation

The writer discusses their personal beliefs and views on religion, specifically Christianity and the Bible. They approach the Bible as a story inspired by humans who were trying to reach a connection with God, but being fallible and imperfect, the texts may contain errors and incompleteness. They also suggest that the story of Adam and Eve in Genesis may have originated as an early human understanding and explanation of the concept of death. They also mention the idea that God is superior and beyond human comprehension and that the placebo effect may be related to teachings of Jesus Christ. The writer concludes by saying that they plan to continue exploring and sharing their thoughts on these topics.

The hypothesis being presented is that God respects free will and that the Bible is a journey of finding the one God, with Jesus being the final act. The Ten Commandments are seen as common sense and practical guidelines for living a moral and ethical life, and the concept of God's will being separate from human reality is acknowledged. The author also believes that God's actions are meant to maintain responsibility for one's actions and prevent the blaming of God for human suffering. The author also suggests that Jesus came to depict the way the scripture should be taught and used, as a way to reach a Zen-like state, a placebo effect, and aligning oneself with God.

In summary, your hypothesis is that the healthy placebo effect requires the belief in God as a giver and Jesus as the last God Messiah. You believe that Jesus' teachings, as described in the gospels, emphasize the importance of belief in God and Jesus for achieving a sense of peace and well-being. You also suggest that Jesus' resurrection is a powerful symbol of God's protection and the possibility of miracles in one's life. Additionally, you suggest that Jesus' role as the only true Messiah serves to prevent the arrogance that can come with being seen as God's chosen one.

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While time passes, I understand the necessity to stop the series. The main reason is apparent to me, my path of self-development goes through religion from this point after. That is indeed a personal decision and of course not everyone's cup of tea. Hence there is not a solid core for everyone from now on since my coming thoughts are in something a person that seeks solutions with religion may find useful. However, even for a non-religious person it could be of some benefit, either entertaining for mockery or maybe interesting agnostic rationality over religious matter and try to make them sense.

A bit more about my views and how I plan to talk about the holy bible, I was brought up like an orthodox Christian. Later in my life, I have abandoned the practices and focused on what is rationality. My life path brought me to an impossible gap of self-believe and the limitation of rationality.

My self I stacked doomed by strong emotions that I could not rationally surpass them. I just did not believe in me enough. I knew that it was irrational, but the concept is emotional. At that point, I realized that although never an atheist, I never referred to my faith as something true. It was one more time to keep something in the closet, hence the coming out. A proud coming out as a believer and with no shame to think and rationalize the concept of what religion is! At least for me. In other sense, I look for common sense in religion. Thus, I think I found some and I feel like sharing...

I will start with the way I view the scripts, I am agnostic in my core. I do believe if there is a god, by default we understand not his nature. That is the core hypothesis one should have:

Hypothesis 1: If God exists, then is a being of superior nature to us.

That is the key for healthy religion, you can not understand God, he is superior to you. However, you can believe God as a being that may indeed contact us through the Bible in some sense (I think of him gender-free since it is beyond my comprehension).

So I read the bible with the various hypothesis in my mind, that God is superior to our understanding, and whatever texts left behind are from humans, hence wrong! But not totally wrong. However unknown what is god inspired and what is human fallibility. Hence, I read the bible as a story inspired by humans got in a meditating state to reach god, but being humans, fallible. Ergo bible is incomplete by default, purposely was not given by God. God expect us to understand that since in the frame of reality we examine the text God exists, is superior and timeless.

In my previous articles, I take into account, and I hypothesize that a state of mind keeps coming up to every religion, philosophical, social science or science: Zen, the kingdom of heavens, communism, ataraxia, eudaimonic state, placebo. Placebo is the closest state every measured by common science, the state where the human under the strong belief of medication surpasses biological limitation that science predicts. Later I will resolve how Jesus Christ is teaching us the safe path to the placebo effect. Please give me time to finish the rationality, while holding in mind this is a suggested interpretation! Jesus is still god son's, hence as a human I will never be in a position to fully comprehend him (and this is important! That is why he said, no prophet comes after me! It is necessary for placebo effect).

But first I want to start with Genesis! There we see that Adam and Eva's story describes the shock of knowing death. In Genesis is referred to as the tree "good and evil." In Greek texts, it also appears like the tree of life and death. Interesting to assume the story comes a thousand years earlier than 1400 BC. The human mind earlier is not yet fully sentient, more a mixture of "animal" and the modern human mind. Furthermore, one should add that communication between humans is quite abstract! However, the legends of discovery must still propagate among human populations of that time.

Imagine the humans back in the bible time (bronze age) then were an intermediate of nomads and citizens of some generic settlement. The earlier humans were just nomads, wherever they met had a very abstract impression of how to communicate. Most importantly how to carry the significant findings of their time and big realizations! Like what fire is and does. While most interesting what is death. I think Adam and Eva are the understanding of the concept of death becoming viral through the generations.

Furthermore, the text doubts not of his greatness, power, and wisdom. We can keep that in mind, that God is indeed that! Not the author of the text, especially an ancient mind with much more restricted philosophical and scientific vocabulary.

At the same time scales, one can consider the human brain to be easy to swarm in constructs of his subconscious. Hallucinations as we call them today that could easily be communicated in other individuals with the autosuggestion psychological process. In other words, the children imaginary friends lonely kids have. I remind you here Jesus suggests we should talk to god as innocent kids in the new testament. Hence, humans did not have any particular reason to switch off these hallucinations, neither they were harmful as we consider today, on the contrary, high functional as an imaginary friend.

I assume that is why Jesus was curing so many demonized people, I believe it was people have stacked in a maimed subconscious with little proper psychological treatment. Also until 33 AD, the scientific sense is quite immature to suppress hallucinations to people. A vast number of them, may feel quite ok hallucinating deities and live an enlightened life. Since subconscious though is something vague for us today, I am not saying it is easy or suggested for modern humans.

I elaborate on this view so I can refer to Abraham! It fascinates me how matter of fact he experiences god throughout the story. It is impressive that God keeps reminding him where they first met, in a way to clarify he is still the same god as before and not some other one he may come across... Here is my hypothesis! That it seemed for humans to be able to converse with a variety of subconscious constructs (and actually share them) around that time. It does make sense since they had no particular reason to cling on reality as we do. However as diverse human sides go, so the subconscious constructs. That also gives a different reading to the pagan religions, especially the ancient Greek mythology with intense human-like gods.

Please do not fall under the impression God is just a construct of your subconscious! Give some time to consider that he may be there too (as nature of God goes, he is also there).

So humans converse with sentient subconscious beings with measurable intelligence actually, as an imaginary friend is good enough to chat with a kid and match its intelligence. The same with this constructs. However, here is the intriguing catch. As a human that uses self-suggestion, what do you call to appear in your reality? A subconscious we have studied that is a vast emotional space and not the most friendly towards an individual (self-hate also manifests there).

We have little understanding of what subconscious is, but we do understand that placebo effect lies there. Since a strong self-belief bents normal science and at the same time it was the only form of medication for thousands of years. It obviously could still not cure all of them, but I hypothesize its effect was surpassing the today levels since people could connect better. One more time, I am not implying to give up normal medication and frankly speaking I do not believe our generation could make the spiritual passage to identify the placebo fully.

This is the ancient times of Abraham I think it was people referring to deities for help and support. I am uncertain how do you dive in this meditated state but certainly seems to be in unconditional faith. Returning to Abraham now, a wealthy nomad in the crossroad between Egypt, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia. During a time every house was maintaining the original gods and deities, subconscious constructs shared by families have started wearing off.

I feel it is not disrespectful to think Abraham in minimalistic rationality he meditated believing in one god and there it is. He found the one god, the one and only. He stated for a singular god, dispatched from his nature, asked the subconscious to communicate with a being superior to him. In other words, I imply majestically accidentally from Abraham communicated to a single god, without having entirely relinquished the possibility of other deities. Hence god needed to explain that multiple time.

I think also it is safe to assume god does not touch us more than we can handle if an angel sprang in front of my eyes probably I will shriek and call for a psychiatrist. Even as a believer, I will still freak out. This is not a limitation of God, but of me. Hence it is safe to assume there is a very good reason does not reveal to us, we really can not handle it.

Also why god is not just a subconscious construct, well he is both in some sense. If you want to find the real god, you have to allow the belief that something superior of you exists and shapes your life. As a scholar, you can really diminish it, but you will die from cancer. As a practitioner, you will visit the scholar death bed trying to teach him that this study must also be experienced. Convenient maybe sound... but in the end, it is fucking rational. I have not reached a level of placebo, I am not talking from a safe ground yet.

Returning to Abraham, who ingeniously he discovered lord and lord prophet to him and to the rest of the family. I think it was a healthy connection, where God talks to you with your level of understanding, and you may pass the words in the best possible way, but we are still finite intelligence creatures. It is like undersampling knowledge, going from a high-resolution picture to a poor resolution picture. Obviously is going to be contradictory scripts. Furthermore in an age that it was rather common to converse with deities... you can imagine how hard is for a real God to maintain free will of a person and teach him sense. Because the other obvious hypothesis for god is he respects our free will. I do not know why.

Hypothesis 2: God respects our free will.

The later years do reveal interesting appearances of the supernatural state of God, he was revealed to Abraham and so does to his children up to Moses. Moses has to battle with Egyptian priests to persuade Pharaoh about the true god asking them to leave. However, this gets exceptional interesting, since I think it coincides with Santorini volcano eruption, that could happen into waves. While the god by Moses belongs to Jews only, it is not necessarily right. However back then, only jews believed into a single god. Hence it was impossible for Moses mind to separate it that it should be a universal god. This comes with an alignment that the one God has appeared in many religions like Zoroastrianism etc. God was always there, the bible is just a detailed journey of finding the one god, with Jesus being the final act. I am optimistic that you can find god in every religion, however, I can comment only for Christianity at the moment. So back to Moses and his scripts. God delivered to him the ten commandments.

 Impressively common sense.

 1) I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

On more time he clarifies who is he, to be separated by any other subconscious construct one converses.

2) Thou shalt have no other gods before me

The rest of the constructs are bound to free emotions or your point of view. Arguably skip them.

3) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image: He is beyond our comprehension.

4) Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: Since he exists, no reason for an insect (humans) to speak for himself.

5) Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy: Pray or meditate, you need to do emotional cleansing on a periodic base to be functional.

6) Honour thy father and thy mother: We are attached subconsciously to them and serve a spiritual continuity with them. Maybe fallible parents, but we are their descents, which they did shape who we are.

7) Thou shalt not kill: I think it is obvious.

8)  Thou shalt not commit adultery: I do think adultery needs an update. It is still perfect, but in modern standards is unbounded by the sexual act. These days though shameful acts could be limited mainly to adultery. Personally I believe it is to honor our human relationships with sincerity.

9) Thou shalt not steal: Also quite clear

10)  Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour: The first Christian sampling of love. I am not sure the concept of love was as clear at that time. But all of them can be added up in being a

10 a) (Depends on the text of course) Thou shalt not covet:  This one is a bit more tricky! Since it refers that by doing so, you miss the spiritual connection, you can not walk into a god by looking at other people happiness. You can be inspired, but coveting of them... results in very non-god like connections.

Ergo, it is quite sensible commandments. So until now, in the biblical script, one can understand pretty much I theorize, by assuming god to be god and human to be human. Also taking into consideration that all humans had a difficulty in discriminating god true will over their personal reality is quite a sensible god left not a real manuscript of himself. Since history proved, humans are impressively stupid to take literally every text and create holy wars, witch hunts, and destructions. So yes, I believe God has outwitted us to maintain the responsibility of our actions to us and impossible to blame him.

I sympathize with everyone that suffers today and feels like there is not a god for him. I agree it is hard to believe that such an unfairness should not be allowed by God. However, humans have to be blamed first. We do not act as a holy church of God to help those in need, we do not invest what is given to us to support each other. In a free will world, first we need to find our responsibilities, and with clean hands, God can help us, withouth violation of hypothesis 2. This concept I think it was introduced magnificently by Jesus.

Continuing the agnostic reading of the new testament, we see Jesus denying to write down even a single note. However, he came to be God's son. Why!? Thinking again someone is smarter than you could resolve in a rational understanding. Same reasons, god was never only for Jews. Jesus also .depicted the way the scripts were taught and used. While Jesus understands the scripts are suggesting a Zen state, a placebo state. That you allow God to exist and save you. This is subtle for us, obvious for a god. In the Jesus era, subconscious constructs are abandoned by humans. The heavily populated cities do not allow self-suggestion to be functional, shame triggers are visualized, and humans become demonized or psychotic in scientific terms.

However, the subconscious constructs when aligned with God is the placebo effect. A rather obvious case of living a life. There is an intermediate step of the placebo state, one can act forcefully to life and other humans without the necessity of recognizing god. Even more problematic it is a fact you can proceed with any kind of god. However the real beneficial placebo, it is when you recognize your humbleness. Your mortality and attribute the achievements to the one that brings them, ergo God.

The alternative will result in an out of balance position. That you have confused yourself with god and feeling unbound to restrictions. Arrogance is much more serious than blasphemy, you often see it to people that have succeeded too much in little time, they can not hold of the shock. It is too much to digest their work. Even adding the element of thanking god it will not be enough to endure such a self-justification. Ergo Jesus Christ.

Hypothesis 3: Healthy placebo effect requires the belief of God as a giver and Jesus as the last god messiah.

Jesus died to save us from finding god and believing it will be God, myself or yourself and the rest of the humans. Taking a prophet position will also tear you, historical examples are quire well cataloged. Jesus came to rationally save you into the placebo effect. Keep you always humble, sure you will look like a god! Because you believe in god and you found him through Jesus. Any other brother of yours can do the same. There! You can relax now, you can have anything you need, just understand who is who.

Now that this is out of the way, we can see in detail what we know about Jesus. It seems to be an individual that his story is saved in historical texts, much later to his death. Once again we can predict it was a deliberate act. The texts are referring to his divine birth, while this seems to be more important to the authors than himself. I interpret the gospels, as a wholesome. I keep in mind the overlaping notions described by Jesus himself are rather probable to be more close to his words. A sensible thought of a smart person ( divine nature is up to your faith, it is part of mine) is to keep repeating notions he may want to linger no matter when the story is written.

I think the best case of what Jesus is describing is the placebo effect, in Lukas(?) gospel, a woman is running towards Jesus to help her demonized daughter. In the beginning, he disregards her, since he is here to save only the Jews. However, she has such a strong belief that Jesus said that saved her daughter. Exactly that! Jesus was "toying" with her or teaching her. If you have the belief in Jesus and God, you need not come across of him or being Jew. All you need is to believe in their recognition no matter the time and his physical presence. It is the placebo effect.

While at the same time Jesus refers to the old testament as valid, that makes the first speculations possible valid. Specifically, if we see that Jesus welcomes to find out placebo effect with a strong healthy belief, where we can shape the world by wishing to god. This by itself is very precarious power to every mind, so revisiting again Adam and Eva with Babel tower one can understand it even further.

Adam and Eva were living in the earth all along, close to what is a god. The fear of knowing death made them abandon the subconscious constructs making the world dry as it is now. While fear was pulling them further and further from the spiritual world solutions, the kingdom of heaven. In one perspective making humans mortal and safe from each other wills and being alone. So the kingdom of heaven can be lived everywhere as long as you have god with you. Fear of death sucks your belief from god and mortalize your views. At the same time limits people communication to words only! Meaning words are not flexible enough to carry the point of view as they are. The typical case of someone saying "I like to have breakfast with eggs and bacon with a sea view", referring to vacations. While someone may reply "orange juice is a healthier snack". That is babel tower, the lack of spiritual connection that was clarifying the context of the words earlier, people ended up misunderstanding each other and having psychological problems. Furthermore, when God says "and the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." Exactly that, people are immature! It is a surprise we did not blow up ourselves with nuclear bombs during 60ies.

In conclusion, I think the holy bible is a recipe to find ataraxia, a state of our better self. This requires that none is better than the other and our common frame of reference is god and Jesus. Jesus is the barrier between being God's chosen one that can create a second arrogance wave.

Then after all these, I think is safe to assume that Jesus in some sensed trolled prejudice of people. Reading carefully the script, he was exceptional careful when he mentioned himself as the son of god and messiah. Only at the very end, while when he resurrected people still doubt him, especially the students he has hand-picked. He was expecting them to act so. I presume here, to show us, that god can be as brilliant and powerful and return from the dead, but will you allow yourself to see it?

Furthermore, did you actually believed in his resurrection to perform any miracles in your life too? Either you believe unconditional or not. It is part of having a free will, hypothesis 3. While Jesus occupied permanently the position of god's son, by dying willingly for the cause. He came here, people did not want to believe in his miracles, put him in trial and crucifixion. There is no need for further god manifestations, his only son was disregarding by authority back then. I feel like that is the a divine point for us to carry around.

His resurrection made a very powerful point, God will protect you against any death. Heavens are here, allow yourself through free will to believe in them. This pool of faith can create miracles not only into your life but to other people's life. It can also establish hell. Hence, God is one and superior to everything and lord Jesus came as his son, the only true mesiah. Even if your belief makes you move mountains, you are just a person that found Jesus. Jesus said to believe a lot with love,

This concludes the core of my interpretation of the holy bible, I want to comment more points as time passes by. As a human that I adore wisdom and intelligence, I am thrilled to read it as god pre-planned story in time. He is magnificent and had no other Messiah than Jesus. That means all together we may figure out what was the point of the script, as long we believe it has a point. None of us is him or ever will be, no matter how clearly or witty we may sound and may indeed be. Jesus saved us, so none needs to die again in god's name. It is 1986 years after his death and we care less about what he taught and more of what he was wearing.

I have faith in God and Jesus.
I have faith in us.
Love
Adam

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