Galatians 1:1 · World English Bible
Galatians 1:1 Meaning Paul
Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—
What does Galatians 1:1 mean?
Paul is the awakened state, the man who once reasoned his way through life and then knew the truth directly, and his standing comes not of men nor by man because no argument, teacher, or outside proof can hand it over. The identity of Christ is known only by revelation rising within, first-person and unshared, the way a person knows he is himself.
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Paul is the awakened state, the man who once reasoned his way through life and then knew the truth directly, and his standing comes not of men nor by man because no argument, teacher, or outside proof can hand it over. The identity of Christ is known only by revelation rising within, first-person and unshared, the way a person knows he is himself.
Jesus Christ is not a figure who lived elsewhere but the pattern of God buried in every person, and to be raised from the dead is that pattern waking inside one's own head. The awakening does not arrive from any intermediary. It comes when the creative power a person always carried announces itself as his own. What lifts a person is not something told to him. It is his own being made known to him from within.
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Live Galatians 1:1 today
- Instead of reading one more thing about how to live, try one thing you already know for an hour and see what it is like from the inside. First-hand beats another article.
- When someone tells you confidently who you are or what you should do, thank them and then check it against your own sense of it before you act. Their certainty is not evidence.
- Under pressure, when you want someone to tell you it will be fine, give yourself the steadiness instead. Decide from inside rather than waiting to be reassured.
What do you keep seeking permission for that only you can give?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen
To drink the water is to know the temperature. No one can taste it for you.
Upanishads
The teacher can point, but the seeing happens in you or it does not happen.
Sufism · Rumi
There is a candle in your heart ready to be lit. The whole journey is to stop borrowing light and let your own catch.
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