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Plato's The Forms is something I have found that, with God, may be a tool to help see the spiritual. There may be a little bit of a learning curve here. I'll break it down for you Barney Style. I will references some video I advise you watch on Youtube. Introduction Video: "Plato: On The Forms" The School of Life. The Forms are an ideal vision of something. What is the Form of a great baseball team? I am going to say the 1956 Yankees with Mickey Mantle was a great baseball team. Someone could like or hate the Yankees. Given we peel back "Yankees," and "New York," and other such things, what made the 1956 Yankees a great team, and do other teams share those traits? We are looking at The Form of a great baseball team. Did the 2021 Atlanta Braves share those characteristics? Given the Atlanta Braves were a completely different team, we have some compare and contrasting to do towards arriving at The Form of a great baseball team potentially. What is The Form of The Son of Man? We are looking to see a character. To see the character, to get the Form right, we may need to break out a Bible Concordance, and look at all the mentions of Son of Man. When someone takes all the verses together, they may start to see a Form. Jesus is "The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;" (Psalms 118:22)(Acts 4:11) The Stone rejected is in the Old Testament. It is in The New Testament. (Luke 20:9-19)(1 Peter 2) Jesus Christ is the Stone rejected by the builders. (Acts 4:11) The Stone is a Form of something. I am going to list a Bible verse referencing The Son of Man with a song. We are working to get a visual of something. We are working to get The Form right. With the songs, I am adding context the Bible verse. Is it the right context? For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. (Matthew 24:27) Song: "Thuderstruck" 2Cellos The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved right by her deeds.” (Matthew 11:19) Song: "Think I'll Just Sit Here and Drink" Merele Haggard. Jesus replied, "Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head." (Luke 9:58) Song: "Anywhere the Wind Blows." The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band. Given we take the verses together, we are starting to see The Form of The Son of Man. We are seeing characteristics of. The songs may add some context, some links to some things today. Some Christians have worked to make the Bible abstract. A theologian with a couple advanced degrees, he may have thought he was better than you. He writes things so that only him, and small group of elitist weirdos understand it. Jesus chose fishermen, labors, and a tax collector to be his disciples it is not that hard. In part two I may start to really hurt your feelings.