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whetherwich,


i walk a fine line. i am employed as a music minister in a church. i let my light shine, so to speak, because i know what i know, but i am careful how i answer people so as not to cause them to stumble (to allow them their free will). my law of one books are not on display in my living room - again, so as not to infringe on another's free will or, even worse, to cause them to "fear for my soul."

this really makes me smile! who knows how many of you are out there?

kelly,

everything i've ever been taught as a christian just makes more sense now that i've read the law of one series.

i have also noticed that oftentimes wisdom from other systems seem more direct, and that the same wisdom is contained in the west, but in a much less obvious way. reading something like this helps you to see it was really there all along. this sort of thing has helped me come to re-appreciate christianity.

the one thing that still sticks in my craw a bit is the message that we are god because we are one with everything... i can grasp that god is in us, in our hearts and in our beings, but to think of it in terms of us being god and co-creators with him is hard for me to swallow because who am i? does that make sense? a religious person would call that "blasphemy", right? claiming to be god and/or equal to god...

in my opinion, a very good ability to foster is to allow/tolerate the incomplete understanding of something. allow it for as long as needed. it is a form of spiritual patience. you do not have to understand something fully; just let the paradox or incompatible idea sit and your angels and unconscious mind will work on it. this has been one such question for me as well. i am not equal to god, even though all is god. ra speaks of a process of merging with god (i am not entirely sure i want that) that takes millions and i think perhaps billions of years. we, now, are not at that point.

what is important to understand is that there can be nothing outside of god. existence is the ultimate mystery and there can be only one source and cause. everything arises out of god and is part of god. the idea of god versus not-god is false. there is no such thing as nonexistence! there is only existence, and there is only god. at root, all things, including god are one substance, endlessly permutated via duality, yin and yang, positive and negative, into the elements and the millions of things.

this is a point of logic to understand that all things must arise from one fundamental substance, therefore:

everything is pure, there is no sin, all is forgiven in every moment of time.


i feel like i have a lot of false teachings (no blame here, just what i've picked up from multiple sources over the years) to unravel or separate from the truth i know, and have always known, because how can the bible say we are "sons and daughters" of the king, of god the father, creator, and then also say that we are miserable sinners deserving of the worst... confusing! i guess i need to figure out who i am.

the bible does not say we are miserable sinners deserving the worst! preachers come up with fads, the latest i hear about is "utter depravity."

what an utterly depraved doctrine.

in fact, to say that we are utterly depraved and deserve hell is a blasphemy. god created a world in which "all was good."

if you were - all right let us just use christian terminology - if you were satan, wouldn't you want to instill in people's minds:

a sense of hopelessness and fear of god?
to disparage god's character and cosmic plan as one of unhealed evil and eternal despair?
to harden people's hearts toward their fellow man so as to tolerate the idea of being happy in heaven while others suffer forever without mercy?

and what's the big difference between god and the devil anyway, in such a scenario?

forgiveness is not about deciding not to be punitive toward someone who deserves it. it we deserved it, we should get it. forgiveness is total healing - which is seeing that no one deserves it, all sin is ignorance and error and fear. forgiveness is seeing the truth of everyone's being - total purity.

evil exists, but it does not fundamentally exist and that is why it will be healed. if evil existed fundamentally there could not be forgiveness!!!