Man, given "the Word of God," tends to garble it. Even the best teachers have cloudy perception, sometimes. Yet, there are grains of truth in what we receive. Look for those pearls and forgive the messenger if he erred a bit in the translation. (How would we know if it is truth? If we let ego go for a while, we can access our God-given truth recognition.) Human language is insufficient for the hugeness and mystery of spirit. During quiet moments, when we succeed in being still and willing, we receive messages from our source (some Christians would call this The Holy Spirit). They are not in words, because God does not use human language. We always know we have "gotten something" - we feel it - we are blissful (contact!). Only later does the message come to mind, "spontaneously" like inspiration. We have put it into our language. Our words, however, are weak vehicles of God's Word.
There is also the challenge of readiness. During the phases of man's spiritual evolution, he has understood God and mysteries of spirit only within the boundaries of his earthly experience (paradigm). Hence the God of the Old Testament was one who loved only a certain segment of his creation. He is vengeful and jealous and angry when opposed by sinful little people. This makes no sense. We can't believe this of God in our present phase. Since the teaching of Jesus and our present awakening, we recognize our source is Love. Knowing Him to be omnipotent, we realize He cannot have the errors - the faults - of human beings.
Why then, was He seen that way? Perhaps it was the best man could do given the perception of that time. It may also have been a way of controlling the people of Israel. Only the fierce could survive in that culture, perhaps. Now, however, even though our media are full of violent acts, there has arisen an understanding that we can be (indeed we are in our true, created state) like God, and God is Love. How we translate that is highly individual and the outcome produces a radical, uneven structure, but I believe we are at that step in our understanding. The messengers have taken us by the hand and led us up the ladder a bit. The Word has been translated a bit better. But don't be too secure. We are still in transition. The story continues.
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