The God of the Bible is NOT really God at all

 The God of the Literal Bible Is Not God

This statement shocks people at first hearing, but it must be said clearly:
The “God” produced by a hyper-literal reading of scripture is not God at all.
It is a human-made idol—an image of a petty tribal king manufactured by our own projections, fears, and limitations. When the Bible is forced into purely historical or literal meaning, God becomes reduced to a violent warlord who plays favorites, demands blood, commands genocide, and behaves like a jealous Bronze Age chieftain. That is not the Infinite. That is not the Ein Sof. That is simply the human ego projected upward.

It is only when we read the Bible the way the great mystics read it—Kabbalists, Gnostics, Sufis, Buddhist sages—that the Divine begins to emerge from behind the veil of mythic language.

The Bible’s Hidden Metaphysics: Why the Literal Reading Blocks Mystical Understanding

Many sincere believers approach the Bible as if the stories on the surface are the full message. This literal lens—though common—actually prevents one from seeing the true depth of the texts. Jewish Kabbalah, Christian Gnosticism, Sufism, and the Eastern non-dual traditions all teach that scripture is written in symbolic language. It conceals its inner meaning beneath narrative, myth, and metaphor. The Zohar itself warns that “the Torah speaks in the language of man,” and Rambam states that to read the Torah literally is to reduce God to an idol. In other words, the literal narrative is often the camouflage that protects the inner metaphysics from the unprepared reader.

A perfect example is God’s statement to Moses: “Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh”—“I Will Be What I Will Be.” Here, God avoids giving Moses a definable name. A name is a conceptual enclosure. The One who is Being itself cannot be reduced to a label. In Kabbalistic terms, Ein Sof—the Infinite—is not “a” being among beings, but Beingness itself, the inexhaustible Source that expresses through all existence. The Divine is not a noun. The Divine is a verb: the continual Becoming and self-expression of the Absolute in all forms.

This is the exact same metaphysical framework beneath the authentic teachings of Jesus. When Jesus says “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me,” he is not claiming exclusive authority as a person. He is speaking from the state of I AM consciousness. He is expressing the same Divine Beingness Moses encountered in Exodus. The “I AM” is not the ego of Yeshua from Nazareth. The “I AM” is the unconditioned Presence that shines through a transparent human soul. Christ is not a title of monopoly; Christ is a state of consciousness any human may embody when the ego becomes the conduit through which the Infinite expresses.

Likewise, the terms Father, Son, and Spirit were never meant to represent three separate supernatural personalities. They reflect three phases of Divine activity: the Absolute Source (Father), the Living Flow or animating Energy (Spirit), and the human vessel through which the Energy expresses into the world (Son). In modern language: Source → Energy Field → Human Conduit. The early Roman Church later literalized these metaphorical categories into a doctrinal trinity, but the mystical tradition understands them as a continuous spectrum of Being.

This same principle applies to the Hebrew Bible. The Bible is not primarily preserving ancient journalism or linear history. If taken literally, one encounters commands of genocide, stonings, and atrocities that are ethically indefensible today. These are symbols, not endpoints. The battles of the Bible represent psychological warfare against the inner forces that block spiritual clarity. Amalek, for example, is not a tribe to kill—it is the archetype of doubt, fear, and existential despair. The Book of Esther is not merely political drama; Esther (from the root Hester, concealment) symbolizes the Divine Presence hidden in the world of form, and Haman represents the inner Amalek that must be overcome.

Everything changes when one realizes the Bible is not about other people long ago. It is about the spiritual inner world of the human being in every era. Egypt is the ego’s bondage. Sinai is the moment of awakening. The Promised Land is the state of inner integration. Messiah is the human being who becomes a pure conduit of the Infinite. The Bible is not asking us to believe events—it is calling us to embody consciousness.

Scripture, when read as literature only, becomes an idol. But when read as metaphysical allegory, it becomes a map of transformation. The purpose of these texts was never to dominate the intellect through dogma, but to awaken the soul through inner recognition. The literalist approach shrinks the Bible into a primitive record. The mystical approach reveals it as a timeless instruction manual for realizing that the Divine is not “over there” or “back then”—the Divine is the very Being through which you exist here and now.