Moral Relativity
Moral Relativity: The Cure
Moral Relativity: The Cure
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This paper is to simply show why we are seeing such global darkness, death and destruction.
We then posit the cure based upon Jesus’ true teachings.
The problem: There is great confusion in our world as to what is moral. This has caused people to make free will choices that harm other humans, from the youngest to the oldest, based upon self-interests rather than what is good [moral] for others. When we all come to recognize morality as discovered in God as Jesus taught, and then act upon this, our world will change for the better.
=> In this paper we will state the importance of God’s gift of free will choice to each one of His dearly
loved children and our potentials as Jesus so taught.
=> We will define moral relativity and show the cure for it.
=> We will explain the origins of our problem and the resultant effects.
=> We will remind ourselves of Jesus’ definition of right and wrong—of the Golden Rule and discover
something even greater.
=> In God Discovered we will show the path to Light and Life for each individual and then for the
whole as we include the great advantages for living in a world coming out of the Lucifer
rebellion.
The importance of God’s gift of free will choice to each of us.
134:5.2 War on Urantia will never end so long as nations cling to the illusive notions of unlimited national sovereignty. There are only two levels of relative sovereignty on an inhabited world: the spiritual free will of the individual mortal and the collective sovereignty of mankind as a whole. Between the level of the individual human being and the level of the total of mankind, all groupings and associations are relative, transitory, and of value only in so far as they enhance the welfare, well-being, and progress of the individual and the planetary grand total — man and mankind. ~ Jesus
Sovereignty — Divine and Human
134:6.1 If one man craves freedom — liberty — he must remember that all other men long for the same freedom. Groups of such liberty-loving mortals cannot live together in peace without becoming subservient to such laws, rules, and regulations as will grant each person the same degree of freedom while at the same time safeguarding an equal degree of freedom for all of his fellow mortals... And the relative nature of freedom is true socially, economically, and politically. Freedom is the gift of civilization made possible by the enforcement of LAW. ~ Jesus
Jesus taught at the school in Urmia.
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134:4.1-10 The brotherhood of men is founded on the fatherhood of God. The family of God is derived from the love of God — God is love. God the Father divinely loves his children, all of them.
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The kingdom of heaven, the divine government, is founded on the fact of divine sovereignty — God is spirit. Since God is spirit, this kingdom is spiritual. The kingdom of heaven is neither material nor merely intellectual; it is a spiritual relationship between God and man.
If different religions recognize the spirit sovereignty of God the Father, then will all such religions remain at peace. Only when one religion assumes that it is in some way superior to all others, and that it possesses exclusive authority over other religions, will such a religion presume to be intolerant of other religions or dare to persecute other religious believers.
Religious peace — brotherhood — can never exist unless all religions are willing to completely divest
themselves of all ecclesiastical authority and fully surrender all concept of spiritual sovereignty. God alone is spirit sovereign.
You cannot have equality among religions (religious liberty) without having religious wars unless all religions consent to the transfer of all religious sovereignty to some superhuman level, to God himself.
The kingdom of heaven in the hearts of men will create religious unity (not necessarily uniformity) because any and all religious groups composed of such religious believers will be free from all notions of ecclesiastical authority — religious sovereignty.
God is spirit, and God gives a fragment of his spirit self to dwell in the heart of man. Spiritually, all men are equal. The kingdom of heaven is free from castes, classes, social levels, and economic groups. You are all brethren.
But the moment you lose sight of the spirit sovereignty of God the Father, some one religion will begin to assert its superiority over other religions; and then, instead of peace on earth and good will among men, there will start dissensions, recriminations, even religious wars, at least wars among religionists.
Freewill beings who regard themselves as equals, unless they mutually acknowledge themselves as subject to some super-sovereignty, some authority over and above themselves, sooner or later are tempted to try out their ability to gain power and authority over other persons and groups. The concept of equality never brings peace except in the mutual recognition of some over-controlling influence of super-sovereignty. ~ Jesus
The Urmia religionists lived together in comparative peace and tranquility because they had fully surrendered all their notions of religious sovereignty. Spiritually, they all believed in a sovereign God; socially, full and unchallengeable authority rested in their presiding head — Cymboyton. They well knew what would happen to any teacher who assumed to lord it over his fellow teachers. There can be no lasting religious peace on Urantia until all religious groups freely surrender all their notions of divine favor, chosen people, and religious sovereignty. Only when God the Father becomes supreme will men become religious brothers and live together in religious peace on earth.
What is ‘moral relativity’? Where do our morals come from?
What causes us to choose what is right and good over what is less good, error and possibly even evil?
moral [adj or noun] : what is right, good, ethical
relativity [noun] : the state of being dependent on or determined relation to something else
Relativistic Morality: What does this mean?
We ask ourselves, “What do I want.”?
Do we want global peace and security – national peace and security – local thriving – good jobs – the ability to own a home and have a family – good schools for our children and grandchildren – parental unity in home leadership – safety in the house within designated and working perimeters [ALL family members contribute] – marital health and happiness – children feel loved and safe. Children, with developing young minds, can only grow safely when security is assured for them. Do you see the progression from the macro [widest viewpoint] to the micro [the family unit]?
In the study of moral relativity we may consider doing as our Revelators and Jesus do – we take the widest viewpoint, the entire human population with its nations as powers and superpowers at war with others in order to become the dominant and controlling power over all others on the planet. “Who is the greatest in the kingdom?”, said each apostle. This is the same thing – from the macro to the micro.
“I, me, me mine” is the cry of self assertion.
We witness global superpowers – wars of all kinds in order to gain power,
control and dominance.
Example of the macro: Global elites have their subordinates. Within these super-groups of humans there are then internal motivations of the lower participants working for their own climb to power, quite possibly by taking out the one at the top. Is this done by what is ethically and morally right and good? God sees the intentions and motivations.
Example of the micro: A subordinate employee desires the more lucrative job of their boss. They may scheme to discredit, dishonor and entrap their boss to effect that their boss loses their job so that the subordinate employee obtains this better job with higher pay etc… Was this ethically done, or not? God looks at the heart.
Let us define some terms:
Moral Universalism: the meta-ethical position that some system of ethics, or a universal ethic, applies universally, that is, for "all similarly situated individuals”.
Moral Relativism: that everyone ought to tolerate the behavior of others even when large disagreements about morality exist.
Moral Nihilist: the meta-ethical view that nothing is morally right or morally wrong and that morality does not exist.
Sophistry : noun : subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation
Where did all of this confusion and chaos come from?
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The origin of the Lucifer rebellion reveals so much.
Lucifer declared these 3 things:
1. Our Paradise Father was not real.
2. There should be no universe government. Each local system should be autonomous.
3. Lucifer attacked our Paradise Father’s plan of ascendant mortal training.
53:3.2 1. The reality of the Universal Father.
Lucifer charged that the Universal Father did not really exist,
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[If God does not exist then who is ultimately in control?]
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that physical gravity and space-energy were inherent in the universe,
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[Then where did the universe originally come from?]
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and that the Father was a myth invented by the Paradise Sons to enable them to maintain the rule of the universes in the Father’s name.
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[Then where did the Paradise Sons come from?]
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He denied that personality was a gift of the Universal Father.
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[Then who are YOU? Who defines this?].
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He even intimated that the finaliters
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[Where did they come from?]
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were in collusion with the Paradise Sons to foist fraud upon all creation since they never brought back a very clear-cut idea of the Father’s actual personality as it is discernible on Paradise. He traded on reverence as ignorance.
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[Without recognition of an original Creator then His government based upon His values has no meaning for the non-believer. This attitude leaves the nonbeliever with only themselves as their own basis for what is true, moral or good. This leads to moral relativity based upon what each person thinks is moral from their limited perspective.]
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The charge was sweeping, terrible, and blasphemous. It was this veiled attack upon the finaliters that no doubt influenced the ascendant citizens then on Jerusem to stand firm and remain steadfast in resistance to all the rebel’s proposals [sophistries].
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[In Lucifer’s belief system there is no God and this leaves the children of God isolated and alone in their thinking of any higher authority than themselves. This produces a wide range of determinations of what is right or wrong. With no ultimate authority then these lonely individuals will attempt to assert themselves as ultimate authority as they see fit and without any hope toward things higher and better than themselves. This brings in the lower animal thinking (refer to the InWARd diagram in ‘The Supreme Ideal: Religion Philosophy Cosmology’’ paper) as the supreme ideal since there is no recognition of Someone higher and better than what they think or feel. In essence, they perceive themselves as little gods in their own self-perceptions. Hence, to these thinkers, they engage in the ultimate pride of believing that only their perspectives are valid.]
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53:3.3 2. The universe government of the Creator Son — Michael. Lucifer contended that the local systems should be autonomous.
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autonomous : adj : without any outside control, self-governed.
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[If this is true then what is good, right or moral is destined to devolve into what the lowly mortal with greater power than another will exert in order to uplift themselves over others. This is evil.]
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He protested against the right of Michael, the Creator Son, to assume sovereignty of Nebadon in the name of a hypothetical Paradise Father and require all personalities to acknowledge allegiance to this unseen Father.
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[Lucifer denounced Michael, our Jesus, and asserted that He had no right to rule]
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He asserted that the whole plan of worship was a clever scheme to aggrandize the Paradise Sons.
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[This reveals that although Lucifer was a somewhat higher order of being He never really experienced His own Creator and Paradise Father in a personal spiritual experience as a his ‘friendship with God’ which IS True Religion.]
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He was willing to acknowledge Michael as his Creator-father
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[Lucifer is quite ignorant here. The questions begs, “Where did Michael come from? Who created Him?”. If Michael is his Creator-father, as he states, then there must be one higher and more capable than himself. But his pride of self-assertion sees himself as better than God.]
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but not as his God and rightful ruler.
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[Lucifer’s rejection of reality led him to sin, iniquity and ultimate insanity. Whenever one rejects reality they are left on their own to choose their own reality. Moving farther and farther into this kind of illusion-delusion-thinking, working more and more towards their own meanings and values stemming from the lower animal thinking, leads one to lower and lower material desires. This is a downward spiral rather than God’s plan for ascending upward as one reaches higher and higher into spiritual thinking which comes from God within His own child. This spiritual motivation moves the individual into a progressively dominant and transcendent experience, ultimately lifting the lowly human up and out of the shadow that is merely the material mind.]
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53:3.4 Most bitterly did he attack the right of the Ancients of Days — “foreign potentates” — to interfere in the affairs of the local systems and universes.
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[Lucifer chose to attempt the overthrow of the reality of what had always been. He saw himself as better than those in authority, placed there by God long, long ago. Long before his life even began.]
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These rulers he denounced as tyrants and usurpers.
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[This was insane, illogical and ultimately self-defeating. Over time he actually annihilated himself because there was, in effect, no ‘reality’ (righteousness) found within him. In other words, there was no where for him to go – to continue in – as his reality was actually non-existent. Lunacy!]
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He exhorted his followers to believe that none of these rulers could do ought to interfere with the operation of complete home rule
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[Basically, Lucifer thought of himself as smarter than anyone that had come before him. He erroneously thought that he could overthrow all that God had ordained with all the power He had set in place to govern His own created things and beings. This is laughable! However, insanity is never funny. It is to be pitied.]
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if men and angels only had the courage to assert themselves and boldly claim their rights.
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courage : noun : mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty.
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[This apparently reveals that Lucifer declared our Paradise Father’s way is dangerous or to be feared and requires moral strength to stand up against. So, what is Lucifer saying is ‘moral’, good and right? Lucifer’s definition of morality is the promotion of self, the love of an individual who is self-driven and self-promoting, whereas God’s definition, as taught by His Son, is that which is of the Golden Rule, doing good to others as one would desire for themselves. Jesus’ definition of what is moral puts God in the forefront with our desire to be more and more like Him. Loving others – doing good to others over self-service – is the sign of a spiritually maturing person.]
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rights : noun : something to which one has a just claim: such as; the power or privilege to which one is justly entitled
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[With God out of Lucifer’s program, men and angels were to decide for themselves what is best. His foundation for this is simply that the assertion of self is all that matters – as long as all worship goes to Lucifer himself. He set himself, in effect, as the ruler of this new government of “I, me, mine”. In his illogical and insane thinking, peace for all will be realized when all have their own personal ideas of their ‘rights’ of entitlement met. This leads to the question, “Without any lawful authority, who decides what everyone’s rights are? What duties are to be served? What is considered ideal, moral, or of merit? Who gives the approval for these things?”. In effect, Lucifer sets himself up as the arbiter of his entitled rights and he doles this out to those who worship him.]
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53:3.5 He contended that the executioners of the Ancients of Days could be debarred from functioning in the local systems if the native beings would only assert their independence.
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[Example: How many times have we read where a politician promoting “Defund the Police” is carjacked and mugged only to call for police help at the first and immediate opportunity?]
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He maintained that immortality was inherent in the system personalities,
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[And again, where did all of these personalities come from? Lucifer cannot and does not logically explain this.]
that resurrection was natural and automatic,
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[Without any explanation or logic, the ignorant claim is that resurrection and spiritual progression just happens out of nowhere simply because he says so.]
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and that all beings would live eternally except for the arbitrary and unjust acts of the executioners of the Ancients of Days.
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[Then where does eternity come from? Lucifer did not create eternity. He is not that high of a spirit being. To make this kind of unsubstantiated statement would be as if one stands at the edge of Niagara Falls and shouts out, “There is no water. Trust ME. All that you see is an illusion.” Only then to watch as they drown, swept away by the force of reality believing what is true is not real – to their watery death.]
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53:3.6 3. The attack upon the universal plan of ascendant mortal training. Lucifer maintained that far too much time and energy were expended upon the scheme of so thoroughly training ascending mortals in the principles of universe administration,
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[Apparently, Lucifer disdained spiritual training by those teachers and authorities who had served for eons in our Paradise Father’s ways of order, ethics, fairness and true loving service. He did not appreciate any training unless it came from him.]
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principles which he alleged were unethical and unsound.
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[As previously stated; What is ‘ethical’ to this leader of rebellion as he defines it? He accuses with no real facts or definitions of what is the highest ‘good’. Self-assertion? Self-promotion? Self-service? He demeans and denigrates. He attacks. He leads others astray, and into what? He lied and he deceived as to what real love is. It seems he thought he was the highest order of anything and all should bend the knee to him. Self-love was his battle cry.]
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He protested against the age long program for preparing the mortals of space for some unknown destiny and pointed to the presence of the finaliter corps on Jerusem as proof that these mortals had spent ages of preparation for some destiny of pure fiction.
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[Lucifer protested true spiritual reality; seemingly because he had not personally experienced that life-changing intimate spiritual progression with his Maker. He never knew our Paradise Father as our God who IS love. This is why he declared it to be untrue. This is delusional. Those who accuse someone of their own personal experience as being ‘wrong,’ scream so loudly in order to prove to themselves, that they are not afraid of what they know in their core they have no knowledge or comprehension. The finaliters DO know, and this is why they could stand so firm. God is real. Pursing God is to pursue the reality of real love. Pursuing self-love stops the potential for all that actually IS true, beautiful and good currently and in their own potential.]
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With derision he pointed out that the finaliters had encountered a destiny no more glorious than to be returned to humble spheres similar to those of their origin.
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[Lucifer totally missed the point!!! Love always reaches out to help another fellow. Love is others-oriented. Pride is self-aggrandizing. Lucifer was the perfect example as to WHY our Paradise Father employs such extended training – so that His loving servers of all will be competent, humble, caring for others who may be of lower orders than themselves. This is how the entire universe program of our Paradise Father operates. God’s love is like spiritual water. Water always flows down to the lowest point. Spiritual service does the same. This is how the entire Master universe grows in a healthy and organized manner. Lucifer represents everything we should resist!]
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He intimated that they had been debauched by overmuch discipline and prolonged training, and that they were in reality traitors to their mortal fellows
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[In fact, Lucifer was the real traitor to his mortal fellows. He sought to confuse everyone, everywhere and thus to take away everyone’s belief that God’s plan for ascension is open to all. Child-like faith in God, who indwells them, is the path to knowing God as Jesus so eloquently taught and then lived for us all to see. Jesus loved. Lucifer hated God and then proceeded to spread that hate in his attempt to have everyone worship him, a relatively lower spirit being.]
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since they were now co-operating with the scheme of enslaving all creation to the fictions of a mythical eternal destiny for ascending mortals.
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[This is the absolute illogical and unfounded assumption that only he knew anything about what was real for anyone else. This is called sophistry.]
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sophistry : noun : subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation
He advocated that ascenders should enjoy the liberty of individual self-determination. He challenged and condemned the entire plan of mortal ascension as sponsored by the Paradise Sons of God and supported by the Infinite Spirit.
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[Lucifer traded wisdom for ignorance. Lucifer was in love with himself. Consider resisting this and choose what is higher to progress in spiritual insight. This requires discipline of the mind.]
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53:3.7 And it was with such a Declaration of Liberty that Lucifer launched his orgy of darkness and death.
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[What do we witness today on our world – too much darkness and death? Our planet, along with 36 other worlds caught in this terrible rebellion has been awash in this delusion for over 200K+ years. We thank God and our Master Michael, Jesus, that this rebellion is finally over for us. It is now time to heal, one person at a time, one mind at a time, one soul at a time, and one truth embraced at a time. All healing begins with our indwelling Paradise Father fragments and Jesus’ indwelling Spirit of Truth. His way never fails to lead us toLight and Life!]
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You may very well enjoy reading all about our ancient Lucifer rebellion in Papers 53 and 54.
The resultant effect of the Lucifer rebellion.
54:2.1 With the Son and in the Spirit did God project eternal Havona [Heaven], and ever since has there obtained the eternal pattern of co-ordinate participation in creation — sharing. This pattern of sharing is the master design for every one of the Sons and Daughters of God who go out into space to engage in the attempt to duplicate in time the central universe of eternal perfection.
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[To obtain is usually the word used when you are acquiring, by planned effort, something tangible— an amount you can hold. This God-created pattern of spiritual sharing with His children is His design for our spiritual careers as we continue on, going out into time and space, to partner with God in the reach for what IS in Heaven now, and bring this into our own lives that which is REALITY. And, reality is ONLY discovered in God.]
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54:2.2 Every creature of every evolving universe who aspires to do the Father’s will is destined to become the partner of the time-space Creators in this magnificent adventure of experiential perfection attainment. Were this not true, the Father would have hardly endowed such creatures with creative free will, neither would he indwell them, actually go into partnership with them by means of his own spirit.
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[Our Father is the author of what is good – what is moral, for He is moral. When God is in the mix of our thinking and doing, we find that we are changing to become more like He is. This is possible! You have been given the Personality Power to choose what is the highest and best in every moment of living. WITH God we experience this ADVENTURE of eternal life. This is now, not later.]
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54:2.3 Lucifer’s folly was the attempt to do the non-doable,
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[Lucifer chose to assert what is non-reality.]
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to short-circuit time in an experiential universe.
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[Moving through time and space, as we do, requires learning. Learning requires PATIENCE as well as thinking and then doing. Lucifer, in his lack of wisdom overshadowed by his love of self, chose to psychologically foist his plan for immediate self-satisfaction at the evil behest of his own twisted plan fueled by his own demand for everyone to worship him.]
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Lucifer’s crime was the attempted creative disenfranchisement of every personality in Satania, the unrecognized abridgment of the creature’s personal participation — freewill participation — in the long evolutionary struggle to attain the status of light and life both individually and collectively. In so doing this onetime Sovereign of your system set the temporal purpose of his own will directly athwart the eternal purpose of God’s will as it is revealed in the bestowal of free will upon all personal creatures.
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[Crime is an illegal act for which someone can be punished by the government. It is a grave offense especially against morality. A crime is something reprehensible, foolish, or disgraceful. Lucifer asserted that there was no government of God by demanding that there was no Paradise Father. He failed in recognizing that free will is the gift of God to man. We know that without God there can be no reality-future for any of us. Lucifer and his cohorts have learned the great lesson – crime against God’s plan leads to disaster. The way of the transgressor is hard. The consequence of sin is death. This death of Lucifer was his own decision. In God’s almighty government, free will reigns. If one chooses to stand against God, then in time and space this personality makes himself ‘no more.’ There will be nowhere for them to continue as non-reality [rejection of God AS reality] is nowhere to be found in the factual reality of God. They end themselves.]
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The Lucifer rebellion thus threatened the maximum possible infringement of the freewill choice of the ascenders and servers of the system of Satania — a threat forevermore to deprive every one of these beings of the thrilling experience of contributing something personal and unique to the slowly erecting monument to experiential wisdom which will sometime exist as the perfected system of Satania. Thus does the Lucifer manifesto, masquerading in the habiliments of liberty, stand forth in the clear light of reason as a monumental threat to consummate the theft of personal liberty and to do it on a scale that has been approached only twice in all the history of Nebadon [our universe].
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[True freedom is discovered in the shared life WITH God. Lucifer declaring that God did not exist set in motion his own demise along with all those mortal and spirit beings who fell to his evil sophistries. Without God there is no actuality in progressing wisdom. There can be no true growth. Lucifer’s use of the word ‘liberty’ was false spin. His ‘liberty’ was factual bondage, the loss of freedom = bondage to SELF. This blind and irreverent assault upon what is moral – GOD – is what we are seeing brought to clear light today in our world. Ignorant self-assertion, self-involvement and self-interest is what has brought darkness to our world. Humans have chosen this. God is the cure.]
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54:2.4 In short, what God had given men and angels Lucifer would have taken away from them,
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[He did this by attempting to supplant worship of God with worship of himself.]
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that is, the divine privilege of participating in the creation of their own destinies and of the destiny of this local system of inhabited worlds.
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[We aggressively embrace, with faith and trust, the privilege of creating with God, sharing with God, our own adventures of becoming all that we can be. We choose to allow God to develop us as He sees our potentials are. He is God. We are not. Lucifer was not God. His assertions were false. God’s truth, His morality, is our path to life in eternal service with Him as the loving Leader of our souls.]
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54:2.5 No being in all the universe has the rightful liberty to deprive any other being of true liberty, the right to love and be loved, the privilege of worshiping God and of serving his fellows.
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[WITH God we come to comprehend the importance of discerning between what is freedom and what is bondage – what is right or wrong. In a life problem, we might initially think only about ‘what will work for us’ rather than consider what is best for our fellows. What is good for them. In these life situations God gives us the opportunities to grow in understanding of what actual freedom is – freedom from the bondage of self into the factual liberty of doing God’s will, that which is moral. THIS is freedom.]
54:1.1 Of all the perplexing problems growing out of the Lucifer rebellion, none has occasioned more difficulty than the failure of immature evolutionary mortals to distinguish between true and false liberty.
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54:1.2 True liberty is the quest of the ages and the reward of evolutionary progress. False liberty is the subtle deception of the error of time [immediate demandingness] and the evil of space [pursuing immediate material self-gratification]. Enduring liberty is predicated on the reality of justice — intelligence, maturity, fraternity, and equity [for ALL].
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[Applying intelligence in the midst of struggle causes us to grow. We mature one small step at a time in our lives as mortals. In this maturation process we may meet others who are trying to do the same. When we become friends with these fellows who are also seeking the domain of God within them, we discover the ‘fraternity of the divine spirit’ [157:4.5]. This is the real brotherhood of man predicated upon the Fatherhood of God. As we enjoy sharing together, we see that this same spirit of God is active within each of us as the very same. We are all equal in His spirit as well as diverse in our personality perspectives. Do you see the progression here? Intelligence leads to maturity. Maturity leads to the real brotherhood of man WITH God as the center. Equity and respect afforded to all. This is our Father’s way.]
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54:1.3 Liberty is a self-destroying technique of cosmic existence when its motivation is unintelligent, unconditioned, and uncontrolled.
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[The young child is developing the application of intelligence. They are still immature. Conditioning is necessary in order to grow, much like lifting weights with struggle and effort causes our muscles to grow. The child needs to learn self-control, not self-demanding-ness. The good parent will watch and guide carefully. If this does not occur for the child, then life will teach them hard lessons. God’s cosmic law rules in each day. Attempting to move past this is to attempt the un-doable. God works this way not for our detriment, but because He loves us and seeks our good and moral development. There is no side entrance.]
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True liberty is progressively related to reality and is ever regardful of social equity, cosmic fairness, universe fraternity, and divine obligations.
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[We have duties as universe citizens. Fairness, respect for all as equals in our Father’s brotherhood applying love in doing good to all that we meet [real love] is a responsibility we all MUST embrace.]
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54:1.4 Liberty is suicidal when divorced from material justice,
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[Example: What is ‘just’ for our bodies? We have license to put into our material bodies anything we want. What happens to us when we unintelligently do this with ignorant whimsy? Our material bodies need, and do not need, certain things and in certain quantities. Unwise actions cause dis-ease, un-health, addiction, eventual pain and suffering. Unbridled and careless license in this physical matter can lead to death.
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This potential physical death is temporary, unlike divorcement from God, and leads to self-annihilation spiritually by one’s own choices. This death is permanent. One eventually and simply becomes ‘no more’. This is immediate and painless. Remember: There is NO HELL. Our Father does not harm us. He will simply give the unbeliever what they choose to believe. Without God there ultimately is ‘no where to go.’ Our Spiritual Remedy Diet is prescribed by our Paradise Father and Jesus. This leads to abundant LIFE!]
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intellectual fairness, social forbearance, moral duty, and spiritual values. Liberty is nonexistent apart from cosmic reality, and all personality reality is proportional to its divinity relationships.
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[Our relationship with God leads us to love. Love is the desire to do good to others. Better yet, the action of love is to do the actions of God, who is love, to others. What is fair for everyone? Who determines this?
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Example: The elites are those possessing the power over their fellows. Those who use their power over others may think for a short time that they have won something valuable. However, in the economy of God, no one escapes any unfairness to another as God loves them too much to let them move on without learning what His love IS. They will need to experience for themselves what they have done to another. This is His cosmic law. This will not be fun for them, but it will certainly BE. And, as we wait for our fellows to learn their lessons, we apply forgiveness and mercy, as our Father does with us. We FORBEAR as a member of His planetary family. We set their wrongdoings aside, we wait for the wrongdoers to learn as we forgive them. In the meantime, we look for ways to express our own moral duty utilizing His spiritual values whenever and wherever we can. In this way we are partnering with God in His uplift for our much needful world.]
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54:1.5 Unbridled self-will and unregulated self-expression equal unmitigated selfishness, the acme of ungodliness. Liberty without the associated and ever-increasing conquest of self is a figment of egoistic mortal imagination. Self-motivated liberty is a conceptual illusion, a cruel deception. License masquerading in the garments of liberty is the forerunner of abject bondage.
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[Conquest means to conquer, to dominate, to subjugate, to bring into submission. To bring into submission and conquer our need for self-feeding and self-promotion is to experience the real definition of liberty. Without this active awareness our self-importance may begin to take over our thinking, being and doing. The ballooning of self may feel flying for a time, but it will eventually POP and the tattered remnants fall with ugliness to the ground for all to witness!]
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54:1.6 True liberty is the associate of genuine self-respect; false liberty is the consort of self-admiration. True liberty is the fruit of self-control; false liberty, the assumption of self-assertion. Self-control leads to altruistic service; self-admiration tends towards the exploitation of others for the selfish aggrandizement of such a mistaken individual as is willing to sacrifice righteous attainment for the sake of possessing unjust power over his fellow beings.
[To respect is to give regard, to acknowledge as worthy and honorable. As we consider the unique part we play in our universe citizenry, we should value ourselves in the sense that God values us, or He would not have created us. Appropriate self-respect [to value the gift of our personalities from God] is completely fitting. As we suitably value ourselves as God’s servers, we experience on-going opportunities for pleasing Him. We are FREE to help, uplift, encourage and love everyone we encounter. This is true liberty. We are free to intelligently employ limits for ourselves knowing that God has something better in mind for us. We keep ourselves small in our own minds. We attain God in His spiritual domain, His kingdom within as He increases. False liberty, self-admiration, self-assertion leads to those dark impulses that cause us to act erroneously due to the desires to exert egoistic and hurtful power over others.]
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54:1.7 Even wisdom is divine and safe only when it is cosmic in scope and spiritual in motivation.
Jesus’ definition of what is right and wrong.
Said Jesus:
132:2.2 My brother, good and evil are merely words symbolizing relative levels of human comprehension of the observable universe. If you are ethically lazy and socially indifferent, you can take as your standard of good the current social usages. If you are spiritually indolent and morally unprogressive, you may take as your standards of good the religious practices and traditions of your contemporaries. But the soul that survives time and emerges into eternity must make a living and personal choice between good and evil as they are determined by the true values of the spiritual standards established by the divine spirit which the Father in heaven has sent to dwell within the heart of man. This indwelling spirit is the standard of personality survival.
132:2.3 Goodness, like truth, is always relative and unfailingly evil-contrasted. It is the perception of these qualities of goodness and truth that enables the evolving souls of men to make those personal decisions of choice which are essential to eternal survival.
132:2.4 The spiritually blind individual who logically follows scientific dictation, social usage, and religious dogma stands in grave danger of sacrificing his moral freedom and losing his spiritual liberty [embracing real sin by habitual rejection of God’s truth, morality and goodness]. Such a soul is destined to become an intellectual parrot, a social automaton, and a slave to religious authority [and popular moral relativity].
132:2.5 Goodness is always growing toward new levels of the increasing liberty of moral self-realization and spiritual personality attainment — the discovery of, and identification with, the indwelling Adjuster. An experience is good when it heightens the appreciation of beauty, augments the moral will [towards ‘goodness growing’], enhances the discernment of truth, enlarges the capacity to love and serve one’s fellows, exalts the spiritual ideals, and unifies the supreme human motives of time with the eternal plans of the indwelling Adjuster, all of which lead directly to an increased desire to do the Father’s will, thereby fostering the divine passion to find God and to be more like him.
132:2.6 As you ascend the universe scale of creature development, you will find increasing goodness and diminishing evil in perfect accordance with your capacity for goodness-experience and truth-discernment. The ability to entertain error or experience evil will not be fully lost until the ascending human soul achieves final spirit levels.
132:2.7 Goodness is living, relative, always progressing, invariably a personal experience, and everlastingly correlated with the discernment of truth and beauty. Goodness is found in the recognition of the positive truth-values of the spiritual level, which must, in human experience, be contrasted with the negative counterpart — the shadows of potential evil.
132:2.8 Until you attain Paradise levels, goodness will always be more of a quest than a possession, more of a goal than an experience of attainment. But even as you hunger and thirst for righteousness, you experience increasing satisfaction in the partial attainment of goodness. The presence of goodness and evil in the world is in itself positive proof of the existence and reality of man’s moral will, the personality, which thus identifies these values and is also able to choose between them.
132:2.9 By the time of the attainment of Paradise the ascending mortal’s capacity for identifying the self with true spirit values has become so enlarged as to result in the attainment of the perfection of the possession of the light of life. Such a perfected spirit personality becomes so wholly, divinely, and spiritually unified with the positive and supreme qualities of goodness, beauty, and truth that there remains no possibility that such a righteous spirit would cast any negative shadow of potential evil when exposed to the searching luminosity of the divine light of the infinite Rulers of Paradise. In all such spirit personalities, goodness is no longer partial, contrastive, and comparative; it has become divinely complete and spiritually replete; it approaches the purity and perfection of the Supreme.
132:2.10 The possibility of evil is necessary to moral choosing, but not the actuality thereof. A shadow is only relatively real. Actual evil is not necessary as a personal experience. Potential evil acts equally well as a decision stimulus in the realms of moral progress on the lower levels of spiritual development. Evil becomes a reality of personal experience only when a moral mind makes evil its choice.
Jesus’ Golden Rule and something even greater.
140:5.1 From the Sermon on the Mount to the discourse of the Last Supper, Jesus taught his followers to manifest fatherly love rather than brotherly love. Brotherly love would love your neighbor as you love yourself, and that would be adequate fulfillment of the “golden rule.” But fatherly affection would require that you should love your fellow mortals as Jesus loves you.
50:5.8 The epoch of philosophy and brotherhood. When mortals learn to think and begin to profit by experience, they become philosophical — they start out to reason within themselves and to exercise discriminating judgment. The society of this age becomes ethical, and the mortals of such an era are truly becoming moral beings. Wise moral beings are capable of establishing human brotherhood on such a progressing world. Ethical and moral beings can learn how to live in accordance with the golden rule. [Do we seem capable currently of doing this on our various levels of relationships – marriages, communities, countries and global affairs? It would seem that need we a cure!]
=> In God Discovered we will show the path to Light and Life for each individual and for the whole. We will include the great advantages for living in a world coming out of the Lucifer rebellion – The Correcting Time.
The cure for moral relativity is found in God’s truth – not man’s.
(Jesus’ words in blue’.)
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God’s truth is discovered in Jesus’ actual teachings – not Paul’s. Jesus and Paul do not say the same things. Jesus never taught God created Hell for His erring children. His mercy sets our wrong-doings aside as He gives us time to grow. In His ministry, Jesus not only taught that women are equal to men, but ordained many, many women to teach, preach and minister. And when it comes to enslavement would we ourselves want to be enslaved? Jesus said, “The evil you would not have done you, do not to others.” [131:1.7] Regarding killing our Master said this, “You have heard it said by those who teach the law: ‘You shall not kill; that whosoever kills shall be subject to judgment.’ But I look beyond the act to uncover the motive. I declare to you that every one who is angry with his brother is in danger of condemnation. He who nurses hatred in his heart and plans vengeance in his mind stands in danger of judgment. You must judge your fellows by their deeds; the Father in heaven judges by the intent.” [140:6.4]
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The value of every human life!
165:3.4 "Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And yet, when these birds flit about in quest of their sustenance, not one of them exists without the knowledge of the Father, the source of all life. To the seraphic guardians the very hairs of your head are numbered. And if all of this is true, why should you live in fear of the many trifles which come up in your daily lives? I say to you: Fear not; you are of much more value than many sparrows.”
Yes! All lives matter to God!
Remember, every act shall receive its reward. Evil results in sorrow and sin ends in pain. Joy and happiness are the outcome of a good life. Even the evildoer enjoys a season of grace before the time of the full ripening of his evil deeds, but inevitably there must come the full harvest of evil-doing. Let no man think lightly of sin, saying in his heart: ‘The penalty of wrongdoing shall not come near me.’ What you do shall be done to you, in the judgment of wisdom. Injustice done to your fellows shall come back upon you. The creature cannot escape the destiny of his deeds.
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155:6.9 The religion of the spirit requires only unity of experience — uniformity of destiny — making full allowance for diversity of belief. The religion of the spirit requires only uniformity of insight [spiritual insight], not uniformity of viewpoint and outlook. The religion of the spirit does not demand uniformity of intellectual views, only unity of spirit feeling. The religions of authority crystallize into lifeless creeds; the religion of the spirit grows into the increasing joy and liberty of ennobling deeds of loving service and merciful ministration.
155:6.10 But watch, lest any of you look with disdain upon the children of Abraham because they have fallen on these evil days of traditional barrenness. Our forefathers gave themselves up to the persistent and passionate search for God, and they found him as no other whole race of men have ever known him since the times of Adam, who knew much of this as he was himself a Son of God. My Father has not failed to mark the long and untiring struggle of Israel, ever since the days of Moses, to find God and to know God. For weary generations the Jews have not ceased to toil, sweat, groan, travail, and endure the sufferings and experience the sorrows of a misunderstood and despised people, all in order that they might come a little nearer the discovery of the truth about God. And, notwithstanding all the failures and falterings of Israel, our fathers progressively, from Moses to the times of Amos and Hosea, did reveal increasingly to the whole world an ever clearer and more truthful picture of the eternal God. And so was the way prepared for the still greater revelation of the Father which you have been called to share.
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God has never changed. The prophets of old saw something of Him and spoke these understandings. However, our world was exceptionally gifted with Jesus, the actual Son of God in human form. Yes, Adam and Eve were an order of the Sons of God, but Jesus is the Sovereign Master of our universe, an actual material expression of our Father in Paradise. Jesus IS that! We have been called to share Jesus’ revelation of our Father, not by intellectual assent, a religion of mere mind, but by the True Religion of authentic personal spiritual on-going experience WITH the God OF Jesus. He is ours. We are His. He waits for us to want to know Him.
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155:6.11 Never forget there is only one adventure which is more satisfying and thrilling than the attempt to discover the will of the living God [goodness], and that is the supreme experience of honestly trying to do that divine will [that which is good and moral]. And fail not to remember that the will of God can be done in any earthly occupation. Some callings are not holy and others secular. All things are sacred in the lives of those who are spirit led; that is, subordinated to truth, ennobled by love, dominated by mercy, and restrained by fairness — justice. The spirit which my Father and I shall send into the world is not only the Spirit of Truth but also the spirit of idealistic beauty [the interplay between God and His created beings = cosmology].
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155:6.12 You must cease to seek for the word of God only on the pages of the olden records of theologic authority [man-made world religions].
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Does God tell people to do unholy things like demean one gender over the other, to regard one group of people as ‘chosen’ or ‘acceptable’ while other groups are called outcasts, infidels, heathens or to go so far as to embrace owning human brothers, sisters and children as slaves? Does God instruct one person or group to kill? Would a loving God create a place of eternal torture and isolation for His children specifically created with free will and then eternally punish them for making mistakes while they are learning and using the very free will He has gifted them with? No. This is illogical. He would not. He does not.
The Old and New Testaments say that He did and does.
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God IS Truth. God is changeless. Why would He who is loving and merciful ALL OF A SUDDEN demand killing, slavery, subjugation of females, Hell, and blood, in exchange for forgiveness? This makes no sense. This sounds like more of an attack upon the moral character and nature of God! This sounds like things Lucifer would say about our Paradise Father - This is an assault upon His moral goodness.
Why do we settle for human untruths when God’s Truth is closer than the air we breathe? His spiritual realm is within us. His kingdom is at hand [available]. We contend that Luciferic sophistry is involved.
* Our supposed ‘holy books’ claim women are not equal to men: she has no right for public speaking, she may be ‘properly beaten’, she must submit to husbands in all things, including their bodies, even if the man is abusive. Is this moral? If one claims it is, then we should not be upset when this, and other unfair treatments, are inflicted upon women. God must prefer men over women. Did Jesus teach this?
* Many believe that God has ‘chosen people’. Then God prefers one entire group of people over others? Can this be true? If it is, then I have every right to claim one race is better than another, but this is racism. Is this ‘moral or loving’ to all people?
* If killing and genocide are commanded by God [Old and New Testaments] then why are we upset that humans kill each other, even the babies? God had His own Son killed, so why be upset about wars, murder or abortions? God did it. So can I!
* In the New Testament Paul says we are to be ‘slaves to Christ’. If God requires ‘owning’ us then why can’t we ‘own’ a human ourselves? If the Old Testament states that women and children should be taken as slaves then why are we upset with human trafficking and sex slavery?
* If God, in his ‘morality and love’, creates Hell for eternal torture [as Paul and others promote], isolation and punishment, then why are we concerned when humans kidnap, isolate, torture, punish and hurt other humans? God commanded it before, so I can do it myself.
* If we simply do not know what to believe, then ‘morality’ is confusing and vacillates with emotional whims.
Continuing on with Jesus’ teachings...
Those who are born of the spirit of God shall henceforth discern the word of God regardless of whence it appears to take origin. Divine truth must not be discounted because the channel of its bestowal is apparently human. Many of your brethren have minds which accept the theory of God while they spiritually fail to realize the presence of God. And that is just the reason why I have so often taught you that the kingdom of heaven can best be realized by acquiring the spiritual attitude of a sincere child. It is not the mental immaturity of the child that I commend to you but rather the spiritual simplicity of such an easy-believing and fully-trusting little one. It is not so important that you should know about the fact of God as that you should increasingly grow in the ability to feel the presence of God.
Now that we have Jesus’ true teachings and expanded comprehension of HOW He lived His life, we can gently set aside our books of old in order to reach up for God and enjoy the experience of Him reaching down to embrace us in His spiritual realm. This is to know God the Supreme!
155:6.13 When you once begin to find God in your soul, presently you will begin to discover him in other men’s souls and eventually in all the creatures and creations of a mighty universe. But what chance does the Father have to appear as a God of supreme loyalties and divine ideals in the souls of men who give little or no time to the thoughtful contemplation of such eternal realities? While the mind is not the seat of the spiritual nature, it is indeed the gateway thereto.
Mind is our gift. In the ministry of mind we operate. Without thinking we progress into nothing. However, in the mind we think, use our free will gift of choice, decide to take some action, and then by doing that action emotions emerge. Utilizing this gateway of the mind towards God we are able to choose God, and by doing so, bit by bit, step by step, we enlarge our spiritual capacities by personal worship and we then realize our spiritual nature. DOING NOTHING with regards to this produces nothing.
155:6.14 But do not make the mistake of trying to prove to other men that you have found God; you cannot consciously produce such valid proof, albeit there are two positive and powerful demonstrations of the fact that you are God-knowing, and they are:
155:6.15 1. The fruits of the spirit of God showing forth in your daily routine life.
155:6.16 2. The fact that your entire life plan furnishes positive proof that you have unreservedly risked everything you are and have on the adventure of survival after death in the pursuit of the hope of finding the God of eternity, whose presence you have foretasted in time.
155:6.17 Now, mistake not, my Father will ever respond to the faintest flicker of faith. He takes note of the physical and superstitious emotions of the primitive man. And with those honest but fearful souls whose faith is so weak that it amounts to little more than an intellectual conformity to a passive attitude of assent to religions of authority, the Father is ever alert to honor and foster even all such feeble attempts to reach out for him. But you who have been called out of darkness into the light are expected to believe with a whole heart; your faith shall dominate the combined attitudes of body, mind, and spirit.
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Faith is all that is required! With the faintest flicker of faith, the tiniest sip of His great power within us, we can and will grow. We simply need to TRY and He will meet us right there! And those of us who know beyond any shadow of doubt that His spiritual realm is real, MUST commit our hearts and minds to do more, to serve more, and care more about what Jesus has asked of us, “If you love me, feed my lambs.”
155:6.18 You are my apostles, and to you religion shall not become a theologic shelter to which you may flee in fear of facing the rugged realities of spiritual progress and idealistic adventure; but rather shall your religion become the fact of real experience which testifies that God has found you, idealized, ennobled, and spiritualized you, and that you have enlisted in the eternal adventure of finding the God who has thus found and son-shipped you.
155:6.19 And when Jesus had finished speaking, he beckoned to Andrew and, pointing to the west toward Phoenicia, said: “Let us be on our way.”
The kingdom of good vs. the kingdom of God.
2:5.2 When man loses sight of the love of a personal God, the kingdom of God becomes merely the kingdom of good. Notwithstanding the infinite unity of the divine nature, love is the dominant characteristic of all God's personal dealings with his creatures.
170:5.19 Sooner or later another and greater John the Baptist is due to arise proclaiming "the kingdom of God is at hand" — meaning a return to the high spiritual concept of Jesus, who proclaimed that the kingdom is the will of his heavenly Father dominant and transcendent in the heart of the believer — and doing all this without in any way referring either to the visible church on earth or to the anticipated second coming of Christ. There must come a revival of the actual teachings of Jesus, such a restatement as will undo the work of his early followers who went about to create a sociophilosophical system of belief regarding the fact of Michael's sojourn on earth. In a short time the teaching of this story about Jesus nearly supplanted the preaching of Jesus' gospel of the kingdom. In this way a historical religion displaced that teaching in which Jesus had blended man's highest moral ideas and spiritual ideals with man's most sublime hope for the future — eternal life. And that was the gospel of the kingdom.
YES – let us be on our way!
Footnotes:
Judaism
TRUTH:
Exodus 21:24 24 ...eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
Leviticus 24:20 20 ...fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury.
Deuteronomy 19:21 21 Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
HELL [the after-life]:
Isaiah 14:9-11 Sheʾol below was astir to greet your coming, rousing for you the shades of all earth’s chieftains, raising from their thrones all the kings of nations.
All speak up and say to you, “So you have been stricken as we were, you have become like us! 14:11 Your pomp is brought down to sheʾol, and the strains of your lutes! Worms are to be your bed, maggots your blanket!”…
Isaiah 14:13 Once you thought in your heart, “I will climb to the sky; higher than the stars of God I will set my throne…”
Isaiah 14:15 Instead, you are brought down to sheʾol, to the bottom of the pit.
Numbers 16:30 But if YHWH brings about something unheard-of, so that the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into sheʾol, you shall know that these men have spurned YHWH.
WOMEN:
Ex: Tosefta to Berakhot 6:16 that reads:“A man is bound to say the following three blessings daily: (1) ‘[Blessed are You. . .] Who has not made me a heathen’, ‘.. . . (2) Who has not made me a woman’; and (3) ‘ . . . who has not made me an uncouth person.’”
[More on these Old Testament teachings which are hold-overs on into Christianity via Paul.]
SLAVES:
Deuteronomy 20:10-17 “When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall offer it terms of peace. If it agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall become your forced labor and shall serve you. However, if it does not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. When the LORD your God gives it into your hand, you shall strike all the men in it with the edge of the sword. Only the women and the children and the animals and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourself; and you shall use the spoil of your enemies which the LORD your God has given you. Only in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes”
KILLING:
1 Samuel 17:46 “This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down, and cut off your head; and I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, Then David ran and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath, and killed him, and cut off his head with it.... And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armor in his tent. And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.”
2 Samuel 16:9, 1 Kings 2:8 “Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and take off his head.”... And there is also with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when I went to Mahanaim; but when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put you to death with the sword.’ Now therefore hold him not guiltless, for you are a wise man; you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down with blood to Sheol.”
2 Samuel 4:7 “ When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him. They took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night, and brought the head of Ishbosheth to David at Hebron. And they said to the king, “Here is the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; the LORD has avenged my lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring.”
2 Samuel 20:21"But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, called Sheba the son of Bichri, has lifted up his hand against King David; give up him alone, and I will withdraw from the city.” And the woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.” Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab."
2 Kings Chapter 10:6 "...at Jezreel by this time tomorrow...And when the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons, and slew them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezreel. When the messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons,” he said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.”.
2 Kings Chapter 10:10 “God has now fulfilled the prophecy of the prophet Elijah. So Jehu put to death all who were left of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, as well as all of his close friends and priests, until he had left not one single survivor.”
2 Kings Chapter 10:7 “He put to death all of Ahab’s house, who were left there and so blotted it out, in fulfillment of the word which YAHWEH had spoken to Elijah."
Deuteronomy 7:1-2 "When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you. And when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them."
Esther 8:11 That the king has permitted the Jews of every city to assemble and fight for their lives; they may destroy, massacre, and exterminate the armed force of any enemies together with women and children, and plunder their possessions.
Christianity [Old Testament]
TRUTH:
Psalm 119:160 The entirety of Your word is truth, and all Your righteous judgments endure forever.
HELL [the after-life]
Psalm 88:4-7 For I am sated with misfortune; I am at the brink of sheʾol.
I am numbered with those who go down to the pit; I am a helpless man...
abandoned among the dead, like bodies lying in the grave of whom You are mindful no more, and who are cut off from Your care.
You have put me at the bottom of the pit, in the darkest places, in the depths.
WOMEN:
Genesis 3:16 To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”
SLAVES:
Numbers 31:17-18 "Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately. But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves.”
Leviticus 25:44-46 However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you… You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way.
Exodus 21:2-6 If you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for only six years. Set him free in the seventh year, and he will owe you nothing for his freedom…. But if he was married before he became a slave, then his wife will be freed with him…. After that, the slave will belong to his master forever (eternity!)

Exodus 21:7-11 When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. 

KILLING:
Numbers 31:17-18 "Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately. But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves.”
Deuteronomy 2:33-36 And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. At God’s instructions, the Israelites “utterly destroyed the men, women, and the little ones” leaving “none to remain.” And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain.
1 Samuel 15:2-3 Go, now, attack Amalek, and deal with him and all that he has under the ban. Do not spare him, but kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and asses.'
Jeremiah 50:21-22 Pursue, kill, and completely destroy them, as I have commanded you," says the LORD. "Let the battle cry be heard in the land, a shout of great destruction".
Deuteronomy 20:10-14 But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.
Numbers 31:7-18 Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves.
Deuteronomy 22:20-21 But if this charge is true (that she wasn't a virgin on her wedding night), and evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.
Leviticus 21:9 A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death.
CHRISTIANITY [New Testament – Paul as the major teacher]
TRUTH:
Galatians 1:8-9 “If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received [from me], let him be accursed.” ~ Paul
HELL:
Matthew 5:22 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.
Matthew 5:29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
Matthew 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Matthew 18:9 And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
Matthew 23:15 Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.
Matthew 23:33 You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
Mark 9:43 If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out.
Mark 9:45 And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.
Mark 9:47 And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,
Luke 12:5 But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
2 Peter 2:4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;…
WOMEN:
1 Corinthians 14:34-35 The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.
1 Corinthians 11:3 But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
1 Timothy 2:11-14 Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
1 Corinthians 11:7 "For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and
glory of God: but the woman is the glory of man."
1 Corinthians 11:8-9 For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.
Galatians 3:26-29 For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise. [Which is it? Are women equal or subjugated to man?
Genesis 1:27 "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and
female created he them."
[Based on this passage, it would appear that woman, like man, was created for the glory of God.
Ephesians 5:22 "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord."
[This commandment closely parallels Ephesians 6:5, in which Paul exhorts
"slaves, be obedient to. . . your masters . . . as unto Christ.]
[Most of Paul's new commands are reciprocal, if not conditional. His command to wives that they obey their husbands like Christ is somewhat balanced by his command to husbands that they love their wives. While this command is reciprocal, it is not conditional: wives must still obey their husbands "as Christ" no matter how the husband chooses to act.]
SLAVERY:
[Again, Paul’s new commands regarding slavery are reciprocal but not conditional. Slaves must obey their masters no matter what. A master does not necessarily need to employ righteousness in order to gain a slave’s obedience.
Slavery [still existing today]. Paul supported slavery. Paul’s teachings are quite influential, and especially when he assigns his own invented teachings to Jesus.]
Ephesians 6:5 "Slaves, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ."
KILLING:
1Timothy 1:20 “Hymenaeus and Alexander I have delivered to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.” (1Timothy 1:20)
Romans 1:20-32 "Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them."
Romans 2:1 “You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. Now we know that God's judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. So when you, a mere human, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgment?”
Revelation 6:8 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
The ideology of Islam. Ideologies are comprised of a government, military and religion.
Quron 22:30 Always speak the truth. Shun words that are deceitful and ostentatious:
Quron 3:54, 8:30 Allah is the best of Deceivers.
Quran 98:6-7 says, “Surely those who became infidels, from the People of the Book [Jews and Christians] and polytheists, will abide in the fire of hell forever.
Quran 4:34 "Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded; and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them; surely Allah is High, Great." Contemporary translations sometimes water down the word 'beat', but it is the same one used in verse 8:12 and clearly means 'to strike'.
Quran 38:44 "And take in your hand a green branch and beat her with it, and do not break your oath..." Allah telling Job to beat his wife (Tafsir).
Quran 33:50 "O Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those (slaves) whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee"
Quran 24:32 "And marry those among you who are single and those who are fit among your male slaves and your female slaves..." Breeding slaves based on fitness.
Quran 2:178 "O ye who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the murdered; the freeman for the freeman, and the slave for the slave, and the female for the female." The message of this verse, which prescribes the rules of retaliation for murder, is that all humans are not created equal. The human value of a slave is less than that of a free person (and a woman's worth is also distinguished from that of a man).
Quran 16:75 "Allah sets forth the Parable (of two men: one) a slave under the dominion of another; He has no power of any sort; and (the other) a man on whom We have bestowed goodly favours from Ourselves, and he spends thereof (freely), privately and publicly: are the two equal? (By no means;) praise be to Allah.' Yet another confirmation that the slave is not equal to the master. In this case, it is plain that the slave owes his status to Allah's will. (According to 16:71, the owner should be careful about insulting Allah by bestowing Allah's gifts on slaves – those whom the god of Islam has not favored).
Ex: Hadith Tabari (9:69) "Killing Unbelievers is a small matter to us"
Bukhari 84:57 "Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.'"
Quran 8:12 “I will instill terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them.”