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What Does Witness Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses
A false witness will perish. A man who listens speaks to eternity.
What does witness mean in the Bible?
Witness: the healed mind that has already seen love risen, whose testimony the grieving mind refuses because believing would end its sorrow
Christian Psychology lens · Mark 16:11
Where witness appears in the Bible
1 John 5:9
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God’s testimony which he has testified concerning his Son.
1 Peter 5:1
Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.
1 Samuel 12:3
Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”
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Christian Psychology · Proverbs 21:28
Christian Psychology
Every mind is a witness, and it testifies to whichever teacher it has chosen. The false witness speaks for fear, and its testimony cannot last, because it reports a world of guilt and attack that was never real and so has nothing to stand on. What is built on illusion must fall away when the mind stops repeating it.
The one who first listens speaks with a steadiness that endures, for it has heard the quiet voice of love before it opens its mouth. A mind that hears truth first bears witness to what is real, and what is real does not perish, because it was never made up to begin with.
- Witness: the mind reporting what it has chosen to see, either the fear it invented or the truth it received.
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Esoteric · Judges 12:5
Names & Places
- **Gileadites** "of the heap of witness": Gilead was a cairn of stones piled up as a boundary and a witness between 2 men who did not trust each other. The witness in you remembers what was said, and it holds the crossing.
- **Jordan** "the descender": from the root for going down; the river that falls the whole length of the land, and the place in you where descent happens before anything else can.
- **Ephraimites** "of the doubly fruitful": Ephraim was named for increase that came out of hardship. The productive part of you does not enjoy being questioned at a checkpoint.
- Teaching: What you witnessed and still remember holds the ford of the descent, and the fruitful part of you has to answer there before it crosses. Being productive does not exempt you from examination; it is the thing being examined.
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