Bible symbol · 2 lenses
What Does Bread Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses
Give us today our daily bread.
What does bread mean in the Bible?
Bread: the nourishment the mind thinks it takes from being right at a brother's expense, the satisfaction of attack that seems to feed but leaves it emptier.
Christian Psychology lens · Proverbs 20:17
Where bread appears in the Bible
Luke 22:19
He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me.”
1 Chronicles 9:32
Some of their brothers, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the show bread, to prepare it every Sabbath.
1 Corinthians 5:8
Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Bread through 2 lenses
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Christian Psychology · Matthew 6:11
Christian Psychology
To ask only for this day is to be released from the fear that hoards, the anxious reaching toward a tomorrow the mind does not yet hold. Love gives what is needed as it is needed, and a mind that trusts this stops trying to secure itself against a future it has imagined as a threat.
The bread that truly sustains is not stored but received fresh, moment by moment, from a source that never fails. A mind fed this way lives in the present where love actually meets it, no longer starving today by clutching at what it fears it may lack when the sun comes up again.
- Bread: the sustenance love gives the mind, not gathered against tomorrow but received new in each present moment
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Esoteric · Luke 22:19
Esoteric
The bread taken and broken is truth itself, the inner understanding that feeds the mind rather than any loaf that feeds the stomach. To break it and hand it out is to divide that wisdom into pieces a person can take in and make part of the body that is the temple of the holy spirit. The living substance of that truth enters the vessel meant to house the divine. And to do this in remembrance is to re-member, to gather the scattered members of the self back into one, so that what is taken in produces a lasting change in the inner life rather than a passing thought.
- Bread: truth and inner understanding, the wisdom that nourishes the mind as food nourishes the body
- Body: the temple of the holy spirit, the vessel meant to house the divine
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What bread means in each story
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- PsychoanalysisManna (bread from heaven): the food of life, one with the holy bread and a healing medicine.Exodus 16:1-21
- Clinical PsychologyManna (bread from heaven): spiritual food, the heavenly pattern that gives life meaning.Exodus 16:1-21
- EsotericManna (bread from heaven each morning): wisdom from your higher mind that teaches you how to live.Exodus 16:1-21
- Clinical PsychologyUnleavened bread (verse 3): pure food, the only safe thing to take in a corrupt town.Genesis 19:1-11
- EsotericThe unleavened bread: pure truth with nothing false mixed into it from outside.Genesis 19:1-11
- EsotericBread (in the baker's baskets): truth, and also the ideas you cook up yourself.Genesis 40:1-23
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