Quote from jem:
Its the man in charge. He has not a care in the world for P.C. He is only concerned with truth and accuracy.
He pissed off many in the Church when in his previous off he wiped away hundreds if not thousands of years of Church teaching on Justification and agreed with Protestants that the works are independent of salvation.
here is a link to one of the guys who was pissed off.
http://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/b002aht.htm
Part of the confusion comes from your concept of time.
Also you are confused about who and what is to be saved...or why.
Time is finished.
You are saved.
You are waking up.
You now realize time is an illusion. It is not linear but by your cooperation with the consciousness factors that keep it going...for you.
The whole world is saved.
It is waking up slowly.
It wakes slowly because reality is more terrifying than the nightmare you call "life".
Reality takes some getting used to, so the waking is gentle.
What was saved?
The Mind that took the theme of separation to an extreme. The Mind that made this world in a state of fear.
Who's mind?
The Son of God.
Your reality as the Son of God is more terrifying to you than the self-concept you've made up.
That self-concept walks through time until it wakes up. It wakes up at it's own pace.
So you are saved by "grace", but the pace of your waking is set by your "works".
You have work to do to fulfill your part in the waking of the whole.
Without your part fulfilled, the world would not be saved. Upon you depends the complete undoing of the making of the world.
Time presents a paradox. The world is saved...so you must have fulfilled your part. But in time, you have not fully realized the effects of salvation until you fulfill your part.
Your part is fulfilled in cooperation with the Holy Spirit, who has promised to save you. You waken as He works through you, as you allow Him to work through you.
You are saved by this law: What has effects through you has effect upon you.
The Holy Spirit accomplished the task of salvation the instant it was given him. He made the master plan of salvation, and carried it out. You rely on Him because to fulfill your part in the master plan you must see with his vision, and not the eyes of the body.
The Holy Spirit takes everything you made and converts its purpose to that of waking up.
Faith you made to make real what you wished for. You used faith to make a world of fear real for you.
Faith has been "converted" to be used for waking.
At first used to deceive, it is useful when placed in the truth.
You must place faith in the truth because truth is not something you can learn.
You place faith in truth because you want it to be true.
The truth is, you are saved. Do you want this to be true?
This world - hell - is not real. Do you want this to be true?
You made it up.
You have nothing to fear. True?
You are saved.
So, you need do nothing.
Here is a paradox: Your "work" involves doing nothing. Let miracles be done through you, so that they have effect upon you.
If it sounds complicated, it is only because you made a complicated world designed to defeat truth by complexity.
But salvation is really very simple. It seems hard because it is very different from the way you operate in a complex world.
It is made simple as you give what you made - decision-making - to him. He represents your true will, which is to be happy. He will guide you away from pain and suffering, and turn your nightmares into happy dreams until you waken completely.
Who is saved? The Son of God.
Your salvation will accelerate if you simply accept the reality that you are the Son of God, and there is no difference between you and me.
We are "one" .
Jesus