Jesus' Spiritual Prophecy of True Realness Resurrection?

 "Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, 

and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures," (1 Corinthians 15:3-4).

This post continues the theme of: Jesus' Crucifixion Story of Crucified Falsehood? As I continue to explain why I think the words of Jesus' story were not meant to be read and believed? But perceived as a spiritual diagnosis of all humanity, and a story of crucified falsehood? Which I understand as the Ego-crucifying realization, about the false sense of realness, within reality-labeling words. Which is why I believe that Jesus' transfiguration, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension stories, are not meant to be read literally, but "allegorically." 

If we want to understand the "hidden spiritual meaning that transcends the literal sense of a sacred text." By realizing how and why the "word-as-metaphor" meaning of the word spiritual is "breath," and the metaphorical meaning of the word "sin," is "to miss the mark" of reality? Which I believe is the spiritual truth of Jesus' comment: "Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand," (Matthew 13:13).

So what could be the hidden spiritual meaning and false realness within the written words of 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 above? Widely regarded as the earliest "textual-evidence" of the realness of Jesus' resurrection, which developed into what Christians call the Apostles' Creed. As a trinitarian belief in a God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, faith in the reason why; "Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures." When we read Jesus' crucifixion & resurrection story, as allegories of the Ego-death that happens with the conscious realization of the false realness of words?

I mean has a 2000 year old faith in the words of scripture, actually missed the mark of Jesus' own faith, that his original-sin resolution story, would become experientially understood throughout the whole world? When he said: "And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come," (Matthew 24:14). An original-sin resolution end, that comes with the realization, of how we miss the mark of the "realness of reality," with reality-labeling words?

And miss the mark of Jesus' spiritual message about the daily experience of being human, and the daily importance of second awakening? As a realization that we miss the mark of reality, with the psychological-projection of our reality-labeling words? As we label the surface impressions of reality, received by the biological reality of our eyes? Committing a sin against the "realness" Mark of Reality?

Missing the Mark of Reality? With Reality-Labeling Words?

"Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand',” (Matthew 4:17)

"Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Is a phrase that for years now I have thought of, as Jesus' practical advice for resolving the problem of original sin. After becoming aware that the original meaning of the word sin, involves the "archery" metaphor; to miss the mark. And how I miss the mark of realness, with my reality-labeling words. Which I'll try to explain with the aid of Google's AI. By typing the words: "what is the root meaning of the word sin?" Followed by the words: "to miss the mark". And I copy paste the responses, for your contemplation of how to resolve the problem of original sin. By realizing the false sense of realness within reality-labeling words:

The root meaning of the word "sin" depends on whether you look at the etymology of the English word itself or the ancient biblical languages (Hebrew and Greek) from which the religious concept was translated.

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1. The English Word Origin (Etymology)

The English word "sin" traces back to Germanic and Indo-European roots that originally meant "to be" or "it is true". [1, 2]

• Old English: It comes from the word synn or syn, which meant "violation of divine law, offense, or guilt."
• Proto-Germanic: It stems from *sundiō (the source of the German word Sünde).
• Proto-Indo-European: It is tracked further back to the root *es-ont-, meaning "being" or "existing." [1, 2]

The original logic: In ancient legal and moral terms, the root essentially implied that the accusation was a "reality." It meant "the guilt is real" or "to be the one who actually did it." Over time, the word shifted from meaning "the true state of existence/guilt" to specifically mean an infraction against divine law. [1, 2, 3]

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2. The Biblical Meaning ("To Miss the Mark")

When people discuss the "root meaning" of sin in a spiritual or religious context, they are usually referring to the ancient languages of the Bible, which use an archery metaphor. [1, 2]

• Hebrew (Ḥāṭā’ or Khata): In the Hebrew Bible, the literal root means "to miss" or "to miss the target." It was used non-religiously to describe an archer or a slingshot thrower missing their goal. Morally, it means failing or missing the path of God’s will. [1, 2, 3, 4]
• Greek (Hamartia): In the New Testament, the Greek word used for sin is hamartia. Just like the Hebrew equivalent, it literally translates to "missing the mark" or "falling short of the target." [1, 2, 3]

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Summary Table

Context	Root Word	Literal Original Meaning
English / Germanic	*es-ont- (Proto-Indo-European)	"To be" / "True guilt"
Hebrew Bible	Ḥāṭā’ (חָטָא)	"To miss the target"
Greek New Testament	Hamartia (ἁμαρτία)	"Missing the mark"

 "Miss the mark" is an idiom that means to fail to achieve an intended result, or to be incorrect, inappropriate, or off-target. [1, 2, 3]

Origin and Meaning

Archery root: The phrase comes from archery, where an arrow fails to hit the bullseye or target.
Figurative use: People use it when a plan, joke, speech, or idea fails to hit its goal or convince an audience.
Religious context: In biblical studies, the ancient Greek word for sin (hamartia) translates literally to "missing the mark" like an archer missing a target.

What are you feeling & thinking? About these explanations of the original meaning of the word sin? And the idea that Jesus' saying; "repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" is an "original sin" resolution method? Whenever we touch the actual reality of whatever form of reality, we project reality-labeling words onto? And realize that we've missed the realness―state of being actual or real―mark of any form of reality? With the psychological-projection of reality-labeling words? Like an archer missing a target?

And does such a "felt-sense" realization suggest that Jesus' teachings about the kingdom of heaven, were about a "sensory-appreciation" of realness? A sensory appreciation of realness that functions as a "second-awakening" after our daily experience of awakening from sleep? And an experience that defines Jesus' spiritual prophecy of realness resurrection? When we read Jesus' story of resurrection, allegorically? And experience our sensory-appreciation of realness, as an Ego-death realization about the false sense of realness, within the reality-labeling words we project onto Reality?

"But what does a sensory-appreciation of realness, experienced as a form of Ego-death, have to do with resolving original sin, according to the scriptures?" I'm guessing your thinking? If you are familiar with the notion that Jesus' fulfilled all prophecy, according the the scriptures? And the depth-psychology notion, that Jesus' crucifixion & resurrection stories, are allegorical of suffering an Ego-death? 

While this post's notion that a sensory appreciation of realness, can be experienced as the Ego-death realization about reality-labeling words, that resolves humanity's original sin? The language sin of missing the mark of realness, with reality-labeling words. Requires much intellectual consideration & body-wise contemplation of what I mean. Starting with an explanations of sensory appreciation, and original sin. Please consider:

(Sensory appreciation is the process by which our nervous system receives, interprets, and integrates information from both our external environment and our internal physical condition. [1, 2]

What is Sensory Appreciation?

Definition: It is our felt sense of bodily awareness, combining external stimuli (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch) with internal feedback (proprioception, vestibular balance, and interoception). [1, 2]
Function: It provides the data we need to understand where our body is in space, how we are moving, and what our internal emotional or physical states feel like. [1, 2]

The Role of the Senses

External Senses: Vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch gather data from our surroundings to help us react and communicate.
Internal Senses: Kinaesthetic (movement) and proprioceptive (body position) senses inform us of posture and muscle use, while interoception tracks internal states like hunger, pain, or heart rate. You can explore more about how we process these inputs via resources like The Mindful Body. [1, 2, 3]

Faulty Sensory Appreciation

Concept: Often discussed in practices like the Alexander Technique, faulty sensory appreciation occurs when our sensory feedback mechanisms become distorted or unreliable. [1, 2]
Impact: Habitual tension or poor posture can make an unhealthy position feel "normal" or "straight," leading your brain to misinterpret what your body is actually doing. As explained by practitioner Hilary King, it acts like "fake news from your senses," causing you to do the opposite of what you intend because your internal guide is untrustworthy.) A Google AI Overview

(Original sin is a Christian doctrine stating that all humans inherit a corrupted, sinful nature from the first human pair, Adam and Eve. [1]

Christian Meaning

The Fall: Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden.
Inherited State: Humans are born with a spiritual flaw rather than personal guilt for an individual choice.
Consequences: This condition brings suffering, physical death, and a natural leaning toward wrongdoing.) A Google AI Overview

Original Sin Resolution? Ego Death & True Realness Resurrection?

"nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you,” (Luke 17:21)

This subheading section is the product of my efforts to develop an understanding of how, the reified-reality nature of language misses the mark of true realness, as humanity's original sin. And how this original sin of missing the mark of true realness, created the allegorical nature of religious scriptures. 

Which is why I feel the hidden spiritual meaning of the earliest textual evidence of Jesus' resurrection. "Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures," (1 Corinthians 15:3-4). Are about Jesus' teachings on how to develop the Christ-mind nature of true realness resurrection, to resolve the problem of original sin?

Not the sin of two original human beings, who were guilty of disobeying a supernatural God? But the ongoing original sin of burying true realness, beneath the sounds & symbols nature of language? When we understand how we bury realness―the quality or state of being actual, genuine, or existing in fact rather than being imaginary―with the psychologically-projective nature of reality-labeling words? And suffer the Ego-death, of awakening to the false sense of realness within reality-labeling words?

By truly feeling the biologically receptive nature of our awareness of reality? Like the awareness of true realness, the biological reality of your eyes are receiving right now, for example? And the biologically receptive awareness of reality, we all subconsciously transform into the psychologically projective nature of reality-labeling words? As we contemplate the "riddle-me-this" spiritual truth of Jesus' "nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you?”

And it's the subconsciously orchestrated & functionally automatic nature being human. I feel is true spiritual meaning of Jesus' phrase: "the kingdom of God is within you?" And that Jesus' teachings are not so much about the reality of God, but our human perceptions of Reality? And why I feel that Jesus'  transfiguration, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension. Are allegories of our ordinary waking consciousness, as the experience of spiritual death. And prophecies of true realness resurrection, within the place of our skull?

The upper room of our body, where our brain transforms the biological reception of eyesight, into the psychological projection of thought-words, for example? And to research the spiritual truth and realness of a belief that "Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures," I asked Google's AI this question: "what scriptures is paul referring to in 1 corinthians 15?" And copy paste the response for your thought-sense consideration and felt-sense contemplation:

(When Paul states in 1 Corinthians 15:3–4 that Christ died for our sins and was raised on the third day "according to the Scriptures," he is referring to the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament). Since the New Testament gospels had not yet been widely written or compiled, Paul relied on Old Testament prophecies to validate Jesus's messianic identity. [1, 2]

While Paul does not explicitly cite chapter and verse in his opening summary, biblically trained scholars and cross-references link his statements to several definitive passages: [1, 2]

1. "Christ Died for Our Sins According to the Scriptures"

To demonstrate that the Messiah’s death was planned by God to atone for sin, Paul drew from specific prophetic descriptions of a suffering Saviour: [1, 2]

• Isaiah 53:5–12: This is the primary text. It explicitly states that the Servant was "pierced for our transgressions", "bore the sin of many," and was "led like a lamb to the slaughter." [1, 2]
• Psalm 22: A Davidic psalm that details the execution of the righteous sufferer, mirroring the exact crucifixion account, including the piercing of hands and feet and the mocking by onlookers. [1]
• Genesis 3:15: The first messianic prophecy (Protoevangelium), predicting that the seed of the woman would have His heel bruised while ultimately crushing the serpent. [1]

2. "He Was Raised on the Third Day According to the Scriptures"

Finding explicit "third-day" resurrection mentions in the Old Testament requires looking at prophetic types, patterns, and specific passages: [1, 2]

• Hosea 6:2: A central prophetic passage stating, "After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence." [1]
• Jonah 1:17: Jesus Himself explicitly tied His resurrection timeline to this scripture (the "Sign of Jonah"), pointing to Jonah being in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights. [1, 2]
• Psalm 16:10: David writes, "For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay." Paul openly quotes this later in the Book of Acts to prove Jesus's physical resurrection. [1]

3. Direct Scripture Quotations Later in Chapter 15

Later in this exact chapter, as Paul defends the final resurrection of all believers, he explicitly quotes two more Old Testament scriptures to prove that death will ultimately be defeated: [1, 2]

• Isaiah 25:8: Quoted in 1 Cor 15:54 — "Death has been swallowed up in victory."
• Hosea 13:14: Quoted in 1 Cor 15:55 — "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?")

What are you feeling & thinking? About this response to my questioning of the earliest written textual evidence for Jesus' resurrection? And my suggestion that the story of Jesus' personal resurrection, is about suffering the Ego-death realization, of the false sense of realness within reality-labeling words? As a victory over spiritual death, and realness resurrection within our own skull? And that the biblical notion of original sin, is a human languages sin, against the realness of reality?

I mean, did Paul read scripture and transform Jesus' teachings about victory over spiritual death, into victory over physical death? Because of the false sense of realness, within reality-labeling words of scripture? And is original sin about being born with a spiritual flaw? Or developing the spiritual flaw of our psychological projections onto the realness of Reality? 

Because the true realness of everything we see & hear is not a word, for example? And therefore, is our unquestioned belief in words, a form of spiritual death? When we contemplate why the root meaning of the word "spiritual," is Breath? And why Jesus' said of ordinary people; "Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand?"

Not because he was the supernatural son of God, but because he was a gifted natural philosopher? Well versed in ancient wisdom's understanding of the biologically receptive & psychologically projective nature of being human? Especially the mind-torturing nature of overcoming the spiritual flaw of psychological projection, and the realness resurrection, of feeling the reality of biological reception?

And why did Jesus liken his experience of crucifixion & resurrection to the sign of Jonah? I mean what could Jonah spending 3-days & 3-nights in the belly of a whale, be an allegorical story of? Our body's immersion within the cosmic nature of reality, and feeling this reality biologically, with every breath we take? When we are brave enough to suffer the Ego-death experience of realizing the false sense of realness within reality-labeling words? And feel Jesus' spiritual prophecy of true realness resurrection?

The true realness of reality received by our 6-senses; of sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, and interoception? As the spiritually awakened meaning of Jesus' phrases: "the kingdom of God is within you,” (Luke 17:21)? And: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand," (Matthew 4:17)? Whenever we touch the creations of Mother nature with our bare hands & feel the false sense of realness, within reality-labeling words? Like the false sense of realness, within the reality-labeling word God, for example?

If we want to understand how human languages, developed the original sin of missing the mark of true realness? As arguably, we all do in our personal journey from infancy to adulthood? And how reading the story of Jesus allegorically might develop into an understanding of Jesus' spiritual prophecy of true realness resurrection? When we dare to face the Ego-crucifying "reality-wise" truth about the false sense of realness, within our reality-labeling words?

And as I finish this post, continuing this series theme of good news that can be preached to the whole world. About the "reality-wise" meaning of Jesus' words "and then the end will come?" Through a conscious realization about our personal experience of perceptual confusion? Enabling an increasingly urgent need to balance humanity's biologically receptive & psychologically projective, experience of consciousness. So that the prophecies of the end of our species perceptual-confusion, may come to world-wide fruition.

I can only hope that I've provided some useful food for thought and body-wise contemplation, about the historical purpose of the Jesus' story. As a spiritual prophecy of true realness resurrection, from beneath the reality-labeling nature of words? Please let me know what you feel and think about this blog post, in the historical context of truth, goodness, & beauty.

Best wishes,

David Bates.