Quote from Gringinho:
So, your point is that it is up to each and everyone to have faith or not, and it is voluntarily?
Faith in truth is voluntary, yes. Meanwhile, faith in what is false will maintain one's experience in this rediculous parody of creation called "the universe"...entirely an effect of faith in what is false. [Think: King-sized faith] It may be painful, but it is not a punishment. Think of it as a priviledge...a gift to self...not given by our Father...because it is nothing. It is an unnatural use of mind-power to make fantasy seem real. "The universe" is a very insignificant idea that passed instantly in and out of the mind of Christ/Reality...a joke taken briefly seriously...like a drug that temporarily incapacitates the mind. Though not given by our Father, "the universe" can never be taken away from you, because you believe in it. Nothing the Son of God believes can be taken from him, so letting it go must be voluntary. "The universe" cannot kill the Son of God, although it seems to kill everything in it. It is faith in death that kills what can be killed: symbols. And it is faith in attack which sets everything in the universe at war with everything within it. All of this faith is voluntary, and can be withdrawn at anytime, though it seems involuntary, imposed, and sticky. At the time faith is withdrawn from unreality, the truth seems far off, distant, untrue, even insane. It cannot be seen with human eyes, and there is no evidence that it is there at all. Therefore, salvation asks that you place faith in the truth, regardless of evidence, because it is reasonable...and because you want it to be true! In this way, you turn the tables on the "laws" of mind which dominate "the universe" and which uphold it. When your faith is undivided, the "kingdom" will "come" to your awareness. Faith follows desire. If you are experiencing "the universe", it is because you wanted it. If you are experiencing truth, it is because you want it more than what is false. The good news is that, despite millions of years of desire for what is false, your desire for what is true is stronger, and unchangeable. The desire for what is false is changeable, like everything that is false.
Jesus