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What Does Rock Mean in the Bible Read through 3 lenses
“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
What does rock mean in the Bible?
The rock: the believers themselves, the only foundation a church of love can rest on, though the ego lays a rock of its own and calls the belief in sin unshakable
Christian Psychology lens · Matthew 16:13
Where rock appears in the Bible
Psalms 18:2
Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
1 Chronicles 11:15
Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
1 Corinthians 10:4
and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
Rock through 3 lenses
Same symbol, 3 ways of seeing it. Tap one to jump to it.
Christian Psychology · Matthew 7:24
Christian Psychology
Hearing truth and then living from it are not two steps but one, for a teaching left unpracticed is a foundation of sand that the first storm dissolves. The mind that only admires the words has built its shelter on the shifting ground of its own moods, and every fear will find the cracks. To do the words is to lay the mind's dwelling on something that does not move.
That rock is the changeless truth beneath appearances, the certainty of love that no assault can wear away. A life set there stands not because the winds are gentle, but because its ground was never the world.
- House: the mind's dwelling, the inner shelter a life is built upon and lived within
- Rock: the changeless ground of truth and love, the one foundation that no fear or storm can shake
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Esoteric · Matthew 7:24
Esoteric
Hearing joined to doing builds a person on the rock, and the rock is Peter, from the Greek petra, the little stone or bone at the center of the head where the pineal gland sits. To build the house of the body on that seat is to found one's whole life on the fixed inner center rather than on the shifting sands of appetite and opinion.
What is raised on the pineal rock stands, because that point does not move with mood or circumstance; it is the one steady place in the flesh.
- Rock: petra, the pineal stone at the center of the head, the fixed inner seat a stable life is founded on.
- House: the body and the life built upon it.
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Self-Mastery · Psalms 18:2
Self-Mastery
- Rock, fortress, refuge, high tower: all of it is one thing said many ways. This is the bottom level foundation, the layer your energy actually comes from. For a lot of people that is Christianity, or their spiritual faith of any kind, and on top of it sits everything else, the humor and the music and the friends and the hobbies.
Naming it as refuge is not decoration. It is the recognition that a person who has that base is no longer needing something from every room they walk into. They can give, they can receive in a healthy way, they can like everybody without requiring anything back. That is what a fortress does in a life: it means the supply of your steadiness is already inside the walls, so nothing outside has to be arranged a certain way before you can stand up straight.
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Commentaries on rock
Swedenborg (1887) · rock
ROCK s. the Lord as to the divine truth of the Word. A. R. 915.
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