Personally, if I were to sort what from the bible was of any use as fodder for wisdom stories, I'd toss everything about creation. It really doesn't matter. It doesn't inform the question of how shall we live.
Religions usually come with an origins story but cutting that out hardly affects the rest. I still think (as if anyone needed to hear it again) that gods arise the same way as does a sense of 'me'. I think there is a good amount of flexibility about how the stuff of consciousness gets apportioned. You get what you expect to get. I no longer 'get' god, leastwise, I no longer think of 'Him' as other.
The house of consciousness is great, a vast mansion, and in it there are many rooms. We know some of the those rooms but we didn't build it. The way we are brought up can influence what we expect to find there. What we expect can directly influence what we experience.
Religions usually come with an origins story but cutting that out hardly affects the rest. I still think (as if anyone needed to hear it again) that gods arise the same way as does a sense of 'me'. I think there is a good amount of flexibility about how the stuff of consciousness gets apportioned. You get what you expect to get. I no longer 'get' god, leastwise, I no longer think of 'Him' as other.
The house of consciousness is great, a vast mansion, and in it there are many rooms. We know some of the those rooms but we didn't build it. The way we are brought up can influence what we expect to find there. What we expect can directly influence what we experience.
