Paradise Perspective

Here is yet another example of how we have accepted a single interpretation of something, and collectively subscribed to it without question. The commandment, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor” means “Don’t lie”. Does it?

Actually, to bear has more to do with holding something than giving something up. And witnessing is more about observing than telling or saying anything. Bearing witness might just be about “seeing” something as it really is.

So…God is everywhere. There is no place where God isn’t. God (Love) is really all there is. When we see our neighbor as not only someone separate from us, but someone NOT Love, we could be bearing false witness.  Jesus said, “Whatsoever you do to the least of my brethren, that you do unto me”.  We see Jesus as God, or at least a prime manifestation of God’s love, and He is telling us that if we DON’T see someone else that way, we are NOT seeing Him that way either.

When you think about the accepted interpretation, to not lie, the command becomes an excuse to judge. We can’t really know Truth from inside the confines of the third dimension, so the whole deal is batting it around like a tennis ball into each others’ courts. Truth can only be a perspective here, and cannot be adequately judged from any perspective, like or not.

There is a command in an Eastern philosophy that says: “See God in everyone”. I think the command to NOT bear false witness is supposed to mean the same thing. Do not see anyone differently from who they really are in eternity.

This would have a profoundly different effect on our behavior than not lying. ‘Course, not too many people obey that commandment anyway.