Perspective

By  Fernando and Lolita P. Habito

We may look at our world as a world of signs and symbols. And so just the same are the many meaningful things in this world.

The Bible needs not be interpreted literally for us to attain well-being.

We may look at the Bible as a portrayal of the evolutionary development of the intellectual and emotional aspects of human personality and its concomittant changes in human behavior.

The Old Testament may be seen as a portrayal of the early years of human development when the child is very dependent on others and therefore needs to be told what and what not to do.

We may look at the New Testament as a portrayal of a grown up person who no longer needs the rules. His/Her unconditional freedom allows him/her to accumulate knowledge, experience and skills to become a healthy person, physiologically, emotionally and intellectually. He/She can understand the root causes of planetwide contradictions and knows how to deal with it so that he/she can achieve and maintain inner peace and radiates it to others.

We may look at the Revelation (the last portion of the Bible) as a portrayal of the horrible consequences when a person is suffering emotionally and intellectually for a prolong amount of time; when a person lost connection with other humans; when life’s contradictions completely overwhelmed his/her total  personality to the extent that his/her body lost the capacity to direct itself; when society has reached a definite demarcation of right and wrong; when the motivation to exist and to allow others to exist (which we call love) has lost its meaning.