What The Bible Says About Imagination

The following concordance search of imagination gives a fascinating insight of the negative imaginations of man, which the Bible shows we were condemned to use by Adam after eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 6:5: And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 8:21: And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground anymore for mans sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite anymore every thing living, as I have done.

Deuteronomy 29:19: And it came to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, and to add drunkenness to thirst.

Deuteronomy 31:21: And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.

1 Chronicles 28:9: And thou, Solomon my son, Know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

1 Chronicles 29:18: O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee; (bold added)

This is one of a few references of imagination in the Old Testament without a negative implication. Here is a prayer to keep the wonderful feelings, described in earlier scriptures, in the hearts of the people. I marvel at the sequence in which imagination is mentioned, then thoughts, then the heart. It is indeed the imaginations of the thoughts of the heart that is the very key to the kingdom of heaven.

Jeremiah 3:17: At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.

I predict that this prophesy is about to be fulfilled in the oncoming millennium. The goal of this book is to be part of this wonderful era. This time is approaching and the Resurrection mind science can provide a workable format to encourage God's love and will into the imaginations of the thoughts of the heart of the people.

Jeremiah 7:24: But they hearken not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

I especially love the way this verse very vividly describes evil imaginations causing people to go backward and not forward. This is exactly what occurs with the use of negative imagination.

Jeremiah 9:13-14: Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

Walking in the imagination of our own heart is referring to our carnal heart, which is our evil heart.

Jeremiah 11:8: Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not.

Jeremiah 13:10: This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after their gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.

Jeremiah 16:12: And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:

Jeremiah 18:12: And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

Jeremiah 23:17: They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.

Proverbs 6:16-19: These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Lamentations 3:60-61 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;

The word imagination is used in a positive way when the virgin Mary is speaking to Elisabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, and says:

Luke 1:51: He hath shewed strength with his arm; He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

The dictionary defines the word proud as, adj., 1. thinking well of oneself. 2. feeling or showing satisfaction. 3. having a becoming sense of what is due oneself, one's position, or character:... 5. highly honorable, creditable, or gratifying:... 7. majestic: magnificent:"⁶

Romans 1:21: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened.

Corinthians 10:3-5: For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;" (bold added)

We see the word imagination used in a purely positive way, with no negative implications, only with the conception of Christ. "...He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of there hearts." Christ came to end the condemnation of Adam, the evil imaginations of our heart. He is the resurrection which includes resurrecting the mind. Jesus wants us to use that divine part of our thoughts, our positive emotion and imagination.

The fact that Christ never says the word imagination, yet infers to it through analogies, reveals to us the power of our imagination even by the spell of doumbfoundedness he cast upon the imaginations of those without the knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven.

"Suffer little children; ... such is the kingdom of heaven." "Verily, I say unto you, Who soever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein." So it is by the imagination we enter the kingdom of heaven on Earth. Through faith, create the image of serving mankind through brotherly love and accepting God as the Father through Christ. Become a vehicle for the will of God to flow through you by keeping positive thoughts and the mind is in heaven though the body is on Earth.

Christ starts His conclusion of chapter 6 in Matthew, after explaining how our wants and needs would be provided by God, in verse 33. "But seek ye first The Kingdom Of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." This is the revelation of God's divine plan. Put in God our faith and trust. Seek first the emotions and imaginations of the positive spectrum. Make it a top priority to create only positive images, "and all these things shall be added unto you."

Matthew 6:34: "Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." (Bold added) When we realize that when we use negative emotion we are creating evil, negative imaginations, this verse becomes a dynamo of guidance to spiritual ascension.

Christ said in John 10:9, "I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture." Christ again speaks of The kingdom Of God in Luke 17:20-21 "And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you." (Bold added)

The kingdom of God is within you in the imaginations of your positive spectrum of thought. Our emotions are merely the way we can witness our imaginations in this physical world. Once you conceive this and love according to the brotherhood of humankind, with the realization of God being our Father and we His sons and daughters, you have heaven on Earth. Within the imagination, the mind can be in heaven while the body is on Earth. It may sound quite insane to proclaim heaven to be in our imaginations, but the real insanity is the hell we create with the evil, negative imaginations that has condemned man since time immemorial. Once the mind is set to believe in the positive spectrum of imagination, God's divine plan is activated in your life. God then starts to run our lives instead of our ego. We give up trying to control things and succumb to the will of God. We become vessels for the will of God marked in this material world by our emotions.

This state of mind has been well known by masters of the East for centuries. Once the mind stays positive for a period of time, this affects the peneal, pituitary, and hypothalamus glands which control the entire body function. Neurotransmitters function at higher levels causing thought to be expanded in a similar fashion as LSD and other mind expanding drugs. Only this is natural, safe, non-harmful, and a truly divine level of thought that is not artificial as in the case of a drug induced state which eventually wears off.

Divine thought causes absolutely fascinating changes in the body. The body’s chakras begin to awaken as well as other power centers such as faith, wisdom, understanding, and compassion. Divine positive thought also releases healing chemicals that promote miracle healings of ailments from cancer to psychosomatics. The key is to stay positive in our imaginations. We cannot enjoy the changes in neurotransmitter and power center enhancement if we start imagining how much we would like to choke our boss or if we dwell in past pain. The thoughts transmitted throughout the body must remain positive for the changes to come into affect. This is when true illumination starts.

The physical change in neurotransmitters happens with many devout Christians. They just do not think of it as enlightenment. They feel gifted and others see them as gifted. Many succumb to the notions that they cannot attain such spiritual levels. This cannot be further from the truth.

If it were possible to totally clean out all negativity from our thoughts we then will naturally become totally righteous, and let the divinity of God completely fill our bodies with light. This opens the door to the possibility that the human body could evolve to the point that it could live a thousand years or more. This sounds fantastic, I know, but we know thought can kill us quickly. Voodoo works by the victim's negative imaginations becoming so engulfed in fear that the result is death. Why should positive, divine thought not give us longevity? I have began to wonder if the stories of beings centuries old living in the Himalayan mountains are more than legend. Humanity can evolve to this point when generation after generation persists in positive divine thought.

Christ really tries to tell us how things work in Matthew, chapter 6. Read the entire chapter and marvel at the clarity of His Word. Let us examine The Lords Prayer in Matthew 6:9-13. "...Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name, Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever, Amen."

Only when we use our positive imagination can we picture "...done in earth as it is in heaven." But this is what the Lord wants of us. To do on Earth as it is done in heaven. It is not as hard as it sounds. When our minds dwell in the imaginations of our positive imagination and emotion, and we realize this is the beginning of the kingdom of God, we can then do on Earth as it is in heaven. For if we begin to realize that God also dwells in the imaginations of the thoughts of our hearts, (our positive emotion, for this is His will moving through us) we not only strike up a partnership with God, we begin to, in our minds, dwell with God, and God then becomes apparent in our minds, our hearts, our deeds, our imaginations, our love, His Love, our love of life and our very essence of existence. And He begins to unveil His divine plan to us. Life begins to have an interaction in the way God intended it to be.

John 6:56: He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

John 14:17: Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

Romans 8:11: But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

1 Corinthians 3:16: Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

II Timothy 1:14: That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.

1 John 3:24: And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

1 John 4:12: No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

1 John 4:15: Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

1 John 4:16: And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

If it can be established that God dwells within us, we can also rule out everywhere He may be within us, with the exception of our positive spectrum of the imaginations of the thoughts of our hearts. When we express our positive thoughts we can feel God's presence. When we are kind or charitable we feel the parallel of our thoughts with God as God's will moving through us. God is in the imaginations of the thoughts of the heart of the people, in our divine imaginations, in our divine thoughts, in our divine heart.

Mat. 6:22 says: "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light."

Let us further examine this scripture. The dictionary defines the word light in its many definitions as: "knowledge; information; illumination of mind," and "spiritual guidance and inspiration.⁷

The word eye is defined in it's many definitions as: way of thinking or considering; view; opinion.⁸ We then could consider this passage to read: The knowledge; information; illumination of the mind, spiritual guidance and inspiration, "...of the body,..." is the way of thinking or considering; view; opinion. The light of the body is the eye.

Single is defined as: sincere; honest; genuine.⁹ And if we say: "If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." "If therefore thine..." way of thinking or considering, view; opinion, is sincere, honest; genuine, "...thy whole body shall be full of..." knowledge; information; illumination of the mind, spiritual guidance and inspiration.

Mat. 6:23-24 goes on to say: "But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! No man can serve two masters; for either will he hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."

Mammon epitomizes the desires of the flesh. Through riches, we may attain all carnal desires. To serve mammon would have no other purpose.

Luke 12:29-31 reads: "And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be of doubtful mind, For all these things do the nations of the world seek after; and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things, But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.

In Him our needs will be fulfilled. He will provide and life will interact in His divine way as He intended it. His goodness will come our way without us seeking. Just use your imagination!

"He Who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet." - Joubert

"Imagination rules the world." - Napoleon

"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope." - H. W. Beecher

"Imagination is the eye of the soul." - Joubert