Biblical Symbolism

In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth

Unlike modern science, traditional cosmology did not attempt to describe reality in terms of atoms, energy, and mechanical causality. Instead, most ancient cultures perceived the world in terms of spiritual principles, in terms of meaning …

Spiritual Perspective	Material Perspective
What does it mean?	How does it work?
What truth does it embody?	What material is it made of?

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The Symbol of symbols

“The ‘Son of Man’ designates the quintessence of human reality, the manifestation of what is most interior and most real in it, that is to say its deiformity, its quality as God-symbol. And therefore the Son of Man is the Symbol of symbols” ²

Eph 1:10b

… to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ

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• God, our Creator
• Heaven and Earth
• Time and Space
• Tree of Life 🌳 and Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Bad (TKGB) 🎄

Footnotes

1. Pageau, Matthieu (2018). The Language of Creation. ch 1, 7 ↩

2. Borella, Jean (2016). The Crisis of Religious Symbolism. p404 ↩

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Pantocrator ↩