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The thesis of this essay should not be shocking and controversial, but, for some reason, it is: and that thesis is the belief that the Bible is logical and makes perfect sense, and is not random hallucinatory gibberish, which some people believe, and which, the author is ashamed to admit, he used to believe, too, until he developed the wisdom articulated in this essay. The best way to understand the logic of the argument which the Bible makes is by means of the idea that the Ten Commandments are actually a prohibition against the seven deadly sins, which is made clear by a process that maps the seven deadly sins to the Ten Commandments. This is the map:
(1) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house: gluttony.
(2) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s slaves: sloth.
(3) Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s property. Thou shalt not bear false witness: greed.
(4) Thou shalt not commit adultery: lust.
(5) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife: envy.
(6) Thou shalt not kill. Honor thy mother and thy father: wrath.
(7) I am the Lord your God. You shall hold no others above me. Honor the Sabbath and keep it holy: pride.
Obviously, if this thesis is true, then neither the Ten Commandments nor the seven deadly sins should be taken literally at face value; instead, they are metaphors for a broader idea of religious ethics and morality, and some degree of interpretation and analysis is necessary to infer their true, deeper meaning, which the author describes as the wisdom of God. As one example, “honor thy mother and thy father” does not literally refer to one’s parents at all, but, rather, is a general statement about appreciating the society into which one is born and not harboring resentment and hatred for that society, which is, after all, the world God made and the world God gave to you for you to live in; many other examples are given in the pages that follow. This short essay, which can easily be read in under one hour, intends to provide that analysis, and to explore the interesting results of the map outlined above, which constitutes, in a very real sense, a map of the Bible by means of which one can navigate its contents.
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- PublisherIndependently published
- Publication date2025
- ISBN 13 9798309037100
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages44
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This short nonfiction book is an excerpt from the novel Knight in a Strange Realm, in which the Wise Sage explains the seven deadly sins to the hero of the novel, the Nameless Knight. The reason why I have published this book is that this content can be presented in the form of nonfiction, so I decided to give it a presentation in which the fiction that surrounds it was removed, leaving behind only the bare naked essence of the intellectual philosophical content, which is an essay on the seven deadly sins in the context of the philosophy of religion and which speaks to a new theory of good and evil and a new theological interpretation of religious right and wrong. The essay argues and implies that the real meaning of the Ten Commandments is nothing other than a prohibition against the seven deadly sins.The book also makes the case that many people miss the true meaning of religious texts because they take scripture literally but not seriously, and so think it is a crazy story about fanciful things like, for example, five loaves of bread feeding five thousand people, when God intends for us to take scripture seriously but not literally, and to look for deeper metaphors in the sacred texts. Those metaphors translate stories of burning bushes and other arcane symbols into deeply meaningful life lessons about right and wrong, like the moral that what God provides (metaphorically represented by loaves and fishes) will be enough to keep every faithful person satisfied (represented by it feeding five thousand people), instead of taking every statement in the Bible at completely literal face value, and thinking that, for example, it is really about bread feeding people and not about the grace of God being enough to keep people happy, and thereby failing to see the true meaning of the Bible as intended by God.To take the Bible literally is to see only the physical objects narrated in the story, whereas to parse its meaning through metaphor is to see its spiritual meaning; and nothing, in my opinion, could be more properly religious than to see past the physical and to be able to see that which is spiritual. Yet the Bible is a religious story, therefore one should make every effort to interpret it in a religious way, which means, to see the spirit of the text, and not merely the body of the text, in other words, to see the meanings of the stories, and not merely the bodies referred to in the text. This is a difficult task for many people, however, because to see past the obvious and to see the deeper meaning requires a certain type of wisdom, which is, perhaps, the wisdom of God. This essay makes the attempt to salvage the real meaning of the Bible by presenting an interpretation that takes it seriously but not literally.The excerpt provided in this book has been slightly modified and expanded from the version that exists in the novel. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798309037100
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This short nonfiction book is an excerpt from the novel Knight in a Strange Realm, in which the Wise Sage explains the seven deadly sins to the hero of the novel, the Nameless Knight. The reason why I have published this book is that this content can be presented in the form of nonfiction, so I decided to give it a presentation in which the fiction that surrounds it was removed, leaving behind only the bare naked essence of the intellectual philosophical content, which is an essay on the seven deadly sins in the context of the philosophy of religion and which speaks to a new theory of good and evil and a new theological interpretation of religious right and wrong. The essay argues and implies that the real meaning of the Ten Commandments is nothing other than a prohibition against the seven deadly sins.The book also makes the case that many people miss the true meaning of religious texts because they take scripture literally but not seriously, and so think it is a crazy story about fanciful things like, for example, five loaves of bread feeding five thousand people, when God intends for us to take scripture seriously but not literally, and to look for deeper metaphors in the sacred texts. Those metaphors translate stories of burning bushes and other arcane symbols into deeply meaningful life lessons about right and wrong, like the moral that what God provides (metaphorically represented by loaves and fishes) will be enough to keep every faithful person satisfied (represented by it feeding five thousand people), instead of taking every statement in the Bible at completely literal face value, and thinking that, for example, it is really about bread feeding people and not about the grace of God being enough to keep people happy, and thereby failing to see the true meaning of the Bible as intended by God.To take the Bible literally is to see only the physical objects narrated in the story, whereas to parse its meaning through metaphor is to see its spiritual meaning; and nothing, in my opinion, could be more properly religious than to see past the physical and to be able to see that which is spiritual. Yet the Bible is a religious story, therefore one should make every effort to interpret it in a religious way, which means, to see the spirit of the text, and not merely the body of the text, in other words, to see the meanings of the stories, and not merely the bodies referred to in the text. This is a difficult task for many people, however, because to see past the obvious and to see the deeper meaning requires a certain type of wisdom, which is, perhaps, the wisdom of God. This essay makes the attempt to salvage the real meaning of the Bible by presenting an interpretation that takes it seriously but not literally.The excerpt provided in this book has been slightly modified and expanded from the version that exists in the novel. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798309037100
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