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"Of Purer Eyes"

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Announcements › Forums › God the Only Cause and Creator – June 4th, 2017 › "Of Purer Eyes"

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  • May 30, 2017 at 9:26 pm #4243
    parthens
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    II Kings 4:27 – “… her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.”

    One would think that Elisha would have been sensitive enough to discern the Shunnamite’s seemingly devastating loss of her only son.

    But could it be that Elisha had grown so accustomed to the idea of God as the Principle of Life that he could no longer accept the reality of “death” to begin with? Had Elisha so divorced himself from personal sense that he was now, like his Maker, “of purer eyes than to behold” something as preposterous as death? To Elisha, the Shunnamite’s son was a perfect manifestation of God as Life and Life only, Life omnipresent, with no room for anything other than Life to manifest itself.

    “(Deep-reaching interrogations)
    God is the Life, or intelligence, which forms and preserves the individuality and identity of animals as well as of men. God cannot become finite, and be limited within material bounds. Spirit cannot become matter, nor can Spirit be developed through its opposite. Of what avail is it to investigate what is miscalled material life, which ends, even as it begins, in nameless nothingness? The true sense of being and its eternal perfection should appear now, even as it will hereafter” (SH, 550).

    June 1, 2017 at 7:05 am #4248
    MaryBeth
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    Thank you. Beautiful description of that state of mind which raises the dead – total disbelief in anything unlike God!

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