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Let There "Be" Light

Fool

ALL in all
Premium Member
the christian bible says god is light. but we also know light was created on the first day per the jewish torah.


if then god is light, is light made up of some aspect of what is called god?

if we are the light of the world, are we to somehow some aspect of this thing called god?
 

SalixIncendium

अहं ब्रह्मास्मि
Staff member
Premium Member
the christian bible says god is light. but we also know light was created on the first day per the jewish torah.


if then god is light, is light made up of some aspect of what is called god?
Maybe God just ain't heavy.
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if we are the light of the world, are we to somehow some aspect of this thing called god?
How did we get from God is light and light being made up from some aspect of what is called God to "we are the light of the world?"
 

Fool

ALL in all
Premium Member
How did we get from God is light and light being made up from some aspect of what is called God to "we are the light of the world?"

in the same christian bible it states that people are the light of the world, a city set on a hill cannot be hid.
 

SalixIncendium

अहं ब्रह्मास्मि
Staff member
Premium Member
in the same christian bible it states that people are the light of the world, a city set on a hill cannot be hid.
If Jesus is the light of the world, as he stated in John 8:12, then it would stand to reason that those he was speaking to in Matthew 5, which Matthew 5:1 states were his disciples, were the light of Christ in the world, no? It doesn't appear he was speaking to everyone; just his disciples.
 

Fool

ALL in all
Premium Member
If Jesus is the light of the world, as he stated in John 8:12, then it would stand to reason that those he was speaking to in Matthew 5, which Matthew 5:1 states were his disciples, were the light of Christ in the world, no? It doesn't appear he was speaking to everyone; just his disciples.
the law doesn't differentiate between followers, disciples, or otherwise.

in matthew 5 he was speaking to the disciples but if you read what it says, he was speaking about people in general, not exclusively the disciples. the law isn't for those who just believe, know, but also those who do not believe, do not know, or do not even understand
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Fool

ALL in all
Premium Member
Yeshua said,
If they say to you, “Where have you come from?”
say to them, “We have come from the light,
from the place where the light came into being by itself,
established itself, and appeared in their image.”
If they say to you, “Is it you?”
say, “We are its children and the chosen of the living father.”
If they ask you, “What is the evidence of your father in you?”
say to them, “It is motion and rest.”
 

IndigoChild5559

Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
the christian bible says god is light. but we also know light was created on the first day per the jewish torah.


if then god is light, is light made up of some aspect of what is called god?

if we are the light of the world, are we to somehow some aspect of this thing called god?
You are conflating the literal use of "light" which refers to the waves or photons emanating from a source of energy such as the sun, with the figurative use of the word "light" meant to describe the revelation of truth. It's like when I say, "Your post was illuminating" I'm not actually saying that your post is giving off photons.
 

Fool

ALL in all
Premium Member
You are conflating the literal use of "light" which refers to the waves or photons emanating from a source of energy such as the sun, with the figurative use of the word "light" meant to describe the revelation of truth. It's like when I say, "Your post was illuminating" I'm not actually saying that your post is giving off photons.

one is observed inwardly the other outwardly but both are obviously physical due to action. there is light/dark energy and light/dark matter. not all things are observable to the outward eye but can be to the mind's eye.
 

IndigoChild5559

Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
one is observed inwardly the other outwardly but both are obviously physical due to action. there is light/dark energy and light/dark matter. not all things are observable to the outward eye but can be to the mind's eye.
Visible light can be understood as a wave or a photon, but whichever approach you choose to use, it is the identical visible light. Figurative light, which we we COMMONLY use as a metaphor for truth, is not the same thing as visible light. When we say God is light, or Israel is a light to the nations, we are not talking about visible light.
 
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