1 Peter 2:8 · World English Bible
1 Peter 2:8 Meaning And
and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
What does 1 Peter 2:8 mean?
The little stone in the center of the head is the thing the outward mind trips over. To the one who will not turn inward it becomes an obstacle and an offense, because it asks for a seeing the literal, disobedient reading cannot give.
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The little stone in the center of the head is the thing the outward mind trips over. To the one who will not turn inward it becomes an obstacle and an offense, because it asks for a seeing the literal, disobedient reading cannot give. What was made to be the foundation feels like a rock thrown in the path of the person still building on the surface of the word.
This stone does not move to accommodate the one who refuses. It stays fixed at the base of consciousness, the light-receptor set to open only from within, dividing people by their own direction. Those who stumble were bound to stumble as long as they read the letter and never went inside.
Stone of stumbling: the pineal gland at the center of the head, the fixed light-receptor the outward mind trips over and the inward mind stands upon
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Live 1 Peter 2:8 today
- Find the one thing today you keep tripping over, the same irritation, the same avoided task, and sit with it for two minutes instead of stepping around it. Ask what it keeps asking of you.
- When someone says something that sounds wrong or naive, resist the quick correction. Assume for one minute they mean something you have not reached yet, then ask them.
- Under pressure, when you catch yourself reading someone's text or email in the worst possible way, read it once more as if they meant well. Same words, different door.
Where am I arguing with the surface of something so I never have to go inside it?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 41
Lao Tzu says that when small people hear of the Tao they laugh out loud, and if they did not laugh it would not be the Tao. The teaching sorts its hearers by what they are willing to go in and see.
Zen
Zen warns against mistaking the finger for the moon it points at. Argue with the finger and you stay stuck at it; look where it points and the whole sky opens.
Sufism · Rumi
Rumi says the same wine makes one person sing and another fall over. The cup never changes, only the one who drinks it.
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