Acts 26:8 · World English Bible
Acts 26:8 Meaning Why Is It Judged Incredible with You
Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?
What does Acts 26:8 mean?
Raising the dead names what happens inside a person, not a wonder worked on a corpse. God has descended into the world of the senses and fallen asleep as the very self reading these words.
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Raising the dead names what happens inside a person, not a wonder worked on a corpse. God has descended into the world of the senses and fallen asleep as the very self reading these words. The promise is that this buried awareness will be lifted back into the memory of what it is. Nothing about this is far-fetched. The one who raises and the one raised are the same being. God looks out of every eye and sees only himself, waiting to wake.
The incredible thing would be to think the sleeper stays asleep forever. Resurrection is certain and belongs to everyone in time. The dead are the states a person has lain down in. Each one rises when the awareness within it stirs and remembers it was never anything but the living God.
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Live Acts 26:8 today
- Take a state you have been living in, tired, behind, unwanted, and set it down for one minute. Stand in the better one instead and let yourself feel what that one feels like.
- Treat one person today as though their best self were already awake in them. Speak to that one, not to the mood they walked in with.
- When something in your day looks finished and dead, a stalled project, a cold conversation, keep it alive inside you. Nothing is as over as it looks when the power that raises it is you.
Which part of my life have I called dead too early?
The same truth in other traditions
Buddhism
The awakened nature was never lost, only covered. Waking up is remembering, not building something new.
Hinduism · Upanishads
The self inside the body is the same self that holds everything, asleep in the forms it took. It does not have to travel to be free, only to know itself.
Taoism · Zhuangzi
A man dreams he is a butterfly and lives the dream as the whole of reality. Waking, he sees that the dreamer was there the whole night.
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