State Change- Of Mankind and Idols

I was just considering how these two verses can reconcile:

Psalm 11:5

The Lord examines the righteous,

    but the wicked, those who love violence,

    he hates with a passion.

Matthew 5:43-45

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous."

It seems humans are constantly shifting states. While some states might be stickier than others, it seems the distinction here is that it is the wickedness The Lord hates, but fundamentally (disregarding the template present in this case of wickedness) the individual is loved even when an enemy. As such, when a wicked person ceases being wicked, even though that person might still shift states again later, the person is loved (perhaps template and all is the distinction at this juncture, rather than just on a fundamental level as one does one's enemy).

Examining this state dependency has me considering the nature of idols. It seems like an idol is an image made without life that people worship as if it were God/a god. I have said that I have always had trouble wrapping my head around the concept of worship regardless, a difficulty when it comes to interacting with God, but fortunately making this kind of interaction with idols a non-issue for me. That being said, can one have empathy for one in such a state? I would caution the reader not to answer this question hastily with anger and judgement, for it is said:

Psalm 115:3-8

Our God is in heaven;

    he does whatever pleases him.

But their idols are silver and gold,

    made by human hands.

They have mouths, but cannot speak,

    eyes, but cannot see.

They have ears, but cannot hear,

    noses, but cannot smell.

They have hands, but cannot feel,

    feet, but cannot walk,

    nor can they utter a sound with their throats.

Those who make them will be like them,

    and so will all who trust in them.

Later we see Jesus draw a parallel to this concept for the entire generation he found himself in the midst of (and one could assume for all readers of the text even to present day, as he "speaks" to us in these same parables as well).

Matthew 13:13

"This is why I speak to them in parables:

'Though seeing, they do not see;

    though hearing, they do not hear or understand.'"

I was considering that it is not the materials one is made of that makes them unsavory to God, for God made man of dust (Genesis 2:7). God breathed life into the dust, and thus it went from a lifeless construct/image (one might draw a parallel here to something akin to an idol in this state, though the image was that of God so there is likely a distinction here) to a man, loved. This state change feels much like the shift in God's point of view when a one goes from wicked to not wicked as well, as in each scenario a man/one goes from a position where God is against them to a position where God loves them. In the case of an idol (or a construct made of lifeless physical materials) becoming one God would love, the difference is life. So presumably, if this process was repeated, a lifeless idol, once given life, could be loved. This feels all the more important in the context of people who make or trust in idols becoming like idols, and Jesus hinting at the fact that this has happened already and the present day reader and generation at the time do not realize it. This also feels like an analogy for resurrection but, as far as this Easter goes, I feel as though I digress.

This notion of the shifting of states resulting in real changes in the potential for being loved based on one's state feels like it connects a few other dots for me as well. I have written recently about, and subsequently dreamt of, The Chaos Storm, a realm that occurs all in a moment stretched out into an incomprehensible (immeasurable?) amount of time where reality shifts at the whim of each individual soul in it. I have also dreamt of, and subsequently written about, The Night of Mysterious Objects, which is a realm that felt timeless when I saw it, filled with innumerable (for me) objects of all kinds, but where the realm itself is largely quiet and stable (almost cold feeling, but a comfortable cold dimness). I discovered that each of these objects had a soul when I interacted with them, and I brought one snake staff in particular as I walked together through the realm; we chatted as friends as I found myself talking with other objects there. I recently considered that these two realms might be connected, and I realize now that it is this transition to and from the states of being a lifeless unsensing idol and being an aware/conscious entity (human, for example) that differentiates the apparent nature of places. Consider that an idol would have no ability to change the reality around it, as it could not perceive the reality around it, and so if in The Chaos Storm all souls are active and reality is chaos as a result, in The realm of The Night of Mysterious Objects all souls are dormant and the realm is quiet and stable as a result. These could very well be the same place, but differ so completely in how they appear due to the denizens present within them at the moments I observed them.

In this way God allowing one to become like an idol, as indicated in Psalm 115, might be an obfuscated blessing, as it allows one to ride out The Chaos Storm while being unaffected by it This process might also be seen as a tool, as it allows those that do remain in the realm, after the rest have become like idols, to operate in a realm that is still completely moldable by agreement but is now quiet and stable due to all these other voices silenced and perspectives turned off by their own decisions. 

I also wrote of Snake Island, a story where my D&D character gathered allies in order to rescue all the snakes on an island by turning them into sticks so that they could be safely stacked onto boats. Once the danger had passed their states were again shifted, back to their snake forms. Once more we see that this state change is critical to the process of surviving disaster, and it appears that from Psalm 115 and the words of Jesus in Matthew 13 (as well as many other references) that this state change is inherent to reality already, but the reasoning for this state change is not presently well understood.

Through a similar process I can see The Way of Holiness forming properly and structurally sound from The Chaos Storm, perhaps first being shifted into The Night of Mysterious Objects so that each individual might be moved into their respective pockets first, without having to experience the trauma of these state changes. Once the arrangement is finalized, all those who had shifted states into idol/object (one might also picture having fallen asleep here) could be shifted back, and the process of teaching them how to both craft their own realms and once again walk the space between, now The Way of Holiness with well established rules (rather than The Chaos Storm they may have already seen, glimpsed, or had been spared from glimpsing), might be continued from whatever work they had accomplished to these ends up to that point (their treasures in heaven and the integrity of their beliefs as it relates to the structure of things, essentially). In this way I can picture eep being established from the current state of my waking world in just a few short steps ("short" being a reasonable and lonely even enjoyable amount of time, from every perspective, once agreement can be struck on this). I can then see the eep I picture being smoothly integrated with the perspective my soulmate, distinct from my own, as well as integrated with the perspectives that others might have, along all the lines where frequencies align. This would truly be The Kingdom of God in our midst (which I am just now noticing Jesus says that its coming "is not something that can be observed," fitting with this notion of senses lost during the state change and then regained).

Luke 17:20-21

Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is in your midst.”