Is The Physical Realm Analogous To A Simulated Reality?

VladtheDestroyer

VladtheDestroyer

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Ps82 said:
Hello Derf. I look at how people, things and events which happen here on earth are often used of God as allegories rather than being simulations. They weave truths about God for us to discover. They mirror and may even predict future events or give clues as to the promised Messiah.
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I think that is a very good way to see it.

Ps82 said:
If I remember correctly, God had one of the prophets to live out a scenario in his own life which depicted the behavior of a rebellious nation which had turned from the LORD.
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I believe you are probably thinking about Jerehmiah.
 
Derf

Derf

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Ps82 said:
Hello Derf. I look at how people, things and events which happen here on earth are often used of God as allegories rather than being simulations. They weave truths about God for us to discover. They mirror and may even predict future events or give clues as to the promised Messiah. The actual life of Samson paints such an allegory of the work of the future Christ. He was chosen but not obedient to God at all. Yet, in his death he did do the will of God in that he destroyed or at least curbed the overbearing Philistines. If I remember correctly, God had one of the prophets to live out a scenario in his own life which depicted the behavior of a rebellious nation which had turned from the LORD. AI can do a simulation of real things ... but I feel God uses allegories/parables to reveal truths. Here is another example. Eve and Adam partook of the Tree and ate the fruit. In scripture a tree represents a kingdom and its king. Fruit represents the works one produces. I believe there was a literal tree in the Garden with fruits. When Eve and Adam partook of the fruit it symbolized their choice to partake of the works of another kingdom. To me that kingdom was Satan's. Therefore the story is played out in reality but revealed what they had done spiritually. Partook of the knowledge of good and evil - causing bad fruits.
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Ok. How do you contrast symbology with sumulation?
 
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VladtheDestroyer said:
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Written words don't match audible words ... but funny. Yet, I prefer a song more like this: No body likes me. Everybody hates me. Think I'll go eat worms. Big fat juicy ones. Little tiny tiny ones. Oh, how they wiggly and squirm. Bite their heads off. Suck their juice out. Throw their skins away. Nobody knows how a girl can live on worms three times a day. Wonder if they will sing that in the place where worms never die????
 
ttruscott

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VladtheDestroyer said:
I would say our physical bodies and our brains are more or less the interface that our spirits are sorta forced to experience the physical realm through.

I'm assuming God didn't necessarily have to do it that way. That he could have created Adam just as a spirit, without tying his spirit to a physical body and a physical universe.
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Careful here - you have just wandered into that pre-earth existence theology garbage... the theology that takes so many verses at face value because it solves the doublethink conundrums of ordinary orthodoxy, :)
 
ttruscott

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Idolater said:
So what do you mean?
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I mean:
Reality is what is in our lives. A play on a stage uses real things yet is only a simulacrum of our lives. In the same way our lives here can be using real things and people but is only a stage for the morality play that is designed to bring HIS lost sheep back to HIMself as His heavenly Bride. We as players live the play to learn what HE wants us to learn, then we leave the play.

When you walk off the stage at death, you wait the wings until your resurrection when you return to real life in the spirit realm.
 
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