I grew up in mainstream Christianity in a denomination that is somewhat liberal. I learned the more positive Christian teachings about the Bible, but nothing that explained life beyond the commandments, don’t steal, don’t kill, don’t lie, and be a good person. My early thinking was dominated by ignorance and fear of the Bible, worry about sin, and anxiety of not understanding what my own life was to be about.
When I found Unity’s metaphysical interpretation of the Bible, I simply could not get enough of it. It lifted all the fear, guilt, anxiety, misery and ignorance I had been carrying around all my life. The study of metaphysics and subsequently metaphysical interpretation of the Bible had my full attention. It was the first teaching
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Learning to see more deeply through metaphysical teachings is essential to living a spiritual life. Seeing more deeply into the mirror of the Bible helps us see our own interior in helpful and fascinating …show more content…
They both mean above the physical. I will mostly use the word metaphysical throughout this text.
Metaphysical interpretation is always beautiful, positive, and helpful. It touches the soul. When the soul is touched we are softened and our lives become lovelier in ways we can hardly describe. Our prayers become prayers of thanks breathed quietly in the privacy of our own perception of the divine.
We metaphysically interpret the Bible writings because we are created as spiritual beings indwelling a physical body, producing a lifetime. We interpret because we are the curiosity of God discovering who we are. We are far more than our finite intellectual mind can comprehend. There are evolving dimensions of ourselves we have yet to discover. They are alluded to in the Bible text if we know how to look for them. In searching we discover that we do have eyes to see and ears to hear if we will develop them.
Academic Metaphysics
The term metaphysics originally referred to the writings of Aristotle that came after his writings on physics, and were brought forth by Andronicus of Rhodes about three centuries after Aristotle 's