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email office@abqunity.org and put "Please place me on Metaphysical Bible Study” to get on the emailing list and receive the Google Meet link in the email. You will receive an email with the study material for the coming weeks and weekly emails about the upcoming Sunday Reading Between the Lines. Patrick Knight facilitates. Unity's longest running class! The Bible is not the literal word of God, it is a collection of ancient scriptures', Gospels and Letters that have been assembled in a book as "teaching stories" or allegories. With a higher understanding, the Bible becomes not a book of dogma, but a guide for living a life of Positive Practical Spirituality.
From TruthUnity.net: "We approach the Bible as the story of the spiritual development of our soul. Remember that New Thought teaches that all things we experience in life had their origin in thought; “we create our experiences by the activity of our thinking.” Metaphysical Bible students, therefore, relate each Bible story, and the characters and places in those stories, to their own development as spiritual beings.
Charles Fillmore wrote, “Apart from being a book of great historical and biographical interest, the Bible is, from Genesis to Revelation, in its inner or spiritual meaning, a record of the experiences and the development of the human soul.” The “theater” is in our consciousness, not in the biblical lands. Although the historical biblical story occurred long ago in the faraway biblical lands, when we do a metaphysical bible interpretation, all the action occurs in our consciousness. We do not metaphysically interpret historical events! What we metaphysically interpret are events in consciousness, in a belief that what occurred centuries ago is an expression of the same Divine Ideas that are now expressing in our own consciousness."
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