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I am not -- when you transcend your mind and ego and fully release yourself to understanding God's will, not yours, you will begin your journey to salvation.
Repeat this often. Then change your identity to "I am...".
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Right now you are involved in an intricate web of deception.
If I'm involved, then you are involved, for we are one.
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Why are you obfuscating such a simple and elegant message.
Your catechism is simple and elegant?
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You will see that it is Jesus' faith in God, his perfect love and obedience to his father and therefore his sacrifice for us which is all the sacrifice or complication we need. All of your intellectual work and ambiguous writing has been made completely unnecessary by Jesus. Is it your ego that forces you to make an elegant message messy.
But you see, my brother, sacrifice is very complicated. It permeates the worlds thought system, and builds a world accordingly.
You cannot buy your way out of it with anything, let alone blood money.
See, I have simplified it for you: You do not need to sacrifice anything to return to Heaven. Instead, I ask you to stop sacrificing in order to return.
Sacrifice is a notion totally unknown to God.
You are projecting your own criteria upon God based on messy theology. Likewise, you project a function on my crucifixion that it does not have, based on guilt you feel is real, and want removed vicariously.
Sacrifice arises solely from fear, and frightened people can be vicious.
Sacrificing in any way is a violation of my injunction that you should be merciful even as your Father in Heaven is merciful.
It has been hard for many Christians to realize that this applies to themselves.
Good teachers never terrorize their students. To terrorize is to attack, and this results in the rejection of what the teacher offers. The result is a learning failure.
Innocence is incapable of sacrificing anything, because the innocent mind has everything and strives only to protect its wholeness.
An innocent mind can only honor other minds, because honor is the natural greeting of the truly loved to other who are like them.
The Atonement, not sacrifice, is the only appropriate gift for God's alter. And it is to know God's Son as innocent.
So long as you value guilt, you cannot see that God's Son wanders the world in many forms, many broken pieces.
All your difficulties stem from the fact that you do not recognize yourself, your brother or God.
And what you think is guilty, is God's Son. So you have not yet accepted the Atonement for yourself.
The bible tells you to "know yourself" that you may be healed.
It also says, "When he shall appear ( or be perceived) we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is".
When you understand this, you'll also understand the Atonement. To see, you must look from the pov of innocence, total and universal.
Otherwise, you will not understand what I was teaching on the cross. Nor will you understand my resurrection.
There is never any justification for guilt, to debit yourself with it, or to credit your brother with it. Innocence is total or not at all. Accept this, and you accept your salvation.
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Jesus saved us. For us to be entitled to his saving grace we must act on his word. As Abraham was willing to act on God's word we must act on Jesus's words to us. All you have to do is take one of his promises and act on it.
Act on forgiveness, and you will be saved. But first understand what forgiveness is.
Btw, have you taken me up on my promise that you would not taste death of you took my words to heart?
You are entitled to it, when you learn to forgive.
In time, you are in the process of being saved, and have not yet reached the very first milestone on your return back home.
You have yet to accept responsibility for everything you see, feel and experience. This is the turning point for every "prodigal" Son.
From the pov of eternity, you are saved, for time is finished, and you are in Heaven NOW. My efforts were pivotal in your salvation, and without them, you would not have been saved.
But you overlook the fact that in the Holy Spirit's plan for salvation, everyone plays a pivotal role, without which, none would be saved.
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It is so simple and so elegant why must you make it so complex.
Vicarious salvation purchased with blood money is not elegant or simple.
Innocence is simple.
Jesus