If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.Both lines point to the same thing: if the mystery of life is the foundation of who and what we are, then every thought and action is beholden, in some way, to that mystery.
~ King James version ~
Tao is in every step.
~ possible Taoist alternative ~
(Though, I must admit, I find this biblical line fascinating. I have always understood that it is the Christian perspective that hell is to be removed from God, yet this line indicates otherwise. Interesting!)
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Well, this IS a Hebrew song; this verse is about God being everywhere and knowing everything; there are no secrets from God. And "hell" here (not a Dante-style inferno) is "Sheol," the abode of the dead. Although this is a new thought at this point in the Psalms.
ReplyDeleteI've heard many concepts of Christian Hell: seperation from god, or a place where his love feels like pain due to the soul's evil, or a place/state where one is incapable of love, among others.
ReplyDeleteBut yeah... God's omnipresence had many interesting consequences, which I'd get into but I've got to get to work.