Thursday, September 16, 2010

More On Acim A Course In Miracles

More On Acim A Course In Miracles
I don't rival it, but I found out that some born-again Christians rival it even less. I found this expanse by Sett Smith

Sett claims to manipulate been one of the ACIM disciples, but reading what he writes, I have doubts about he tacit far afield of what ACIM teaches. Not that I do either, as that I am stressed easier said than done to understand the first lesson :-D But even at the same time as I don't far afield rival the Greek Scriptures and Jesus and his teachings and all that, dowry is one thing I synchronize full-heartedly. That is "you know the tree by its fruits". The Greek Scriptures the same say "The fruit of the Operate is love, joy, tranquility, charity, kindness, spotlessness, adherence, gentleness and exercise"." Now, I see that in Marianne Williamson, but not in Sett Smith. I purposeful Marianne is one of the sweetest, kindest, gentlest line on this Terrain and having the status of I read her book, I felt love to everyone and everything. ME! I who am "allergic" to spiritual love, Christianity, Jesus and all that! Sett is neutral complaining, droning, arguing, sowing repulsion and resentment. I ponder someplace in the Greek Scriptures he finds Jesus saying "have it in for dwell in who are not with me" and "it's ok to do against what I told you to do, having the status of it's for harming your warrior". AS FAR AS I Expose, JESUS TOLD HIS DISCIPLES TO Air THEIR Adversary AS THEY Air THEIR Family. AS FAR AS I Expose JESUS TOLD HIS DISCIPLES TO Vindicate Something, AND NOT TO Resist "AN ILL-DOER". AS FAR AS I Expose JESUS TOLD THE PARABEL OF THE SAMARITAN TO Boldness THAT HE DOESN'T Depute A DIME About When YOU SAY. IT'S ALL IN Perform HIS Atmosphere.

"And someone came to Him and supposed, "Intellectual, what good thing shall I do that I may conquer eternal life?

"And He supposed to him, "Why are you asking Me about what is good? Here is sole One who is good; but if you wish to enter clothed in life, uphold the commandments.

"Next he supposed to Him, "Which ones?" And Jesus supposed, "YOU SHALL NOT Collapse MURDER; YOU SHALL NOT Collapse ADULTERY; YOU SHALL NOT STEAL; YOU SHALL NOT Crutch Artificial WITNESS; "

"Dissimilarity YOUR Boon AND MOTHER; and YOU SHALL Air YOUR Fellow citizen AS YOURSELF."

Matt 19: 16-19

Sett, if you wish to enter clothed in life, do not lead false witness! Quoting a fit into out of context is feature false proof.

You have space for that ACIM says:


"Here is no sin... "

A "slain Christ has no meaning."

"The top to the plot a course be obliged to be the stand bungling top."

"Do not make the mellifluous infuriate of 'clinging to the old strong plot a course.'"

"The Count of Jesus Christ as such is but a symbol... It is a symbol that is determinedly hand-me-down as a swop for the many names of all the gods to which you pray."

"God is in everything I see."

"The notoriety of God is the notoriety of yourself."

"The oneness of the Inventor and the business is your wholeness, your mind and your vast power."

"The Hair shirt is the end lesson he [man] food shortage learn, for it teaches him that, never having sinned, he has no food shortage of champion."

and that "greatest Christians discover that these teachings are the contrary of what the Bible teaches."

Ok... let's the way you are seen at it.

Yes, ACIM claims dowry is no sin. ACIM says that sole what is from God, what is bent by God, what is of Air exists, is real and true. Something exceedingly is an enchanting, a delirium, whatever thing we manipulate bent ourselves, a lie. It is not real, it doesn't act, it is not. Sin is intend of Air, it is a lie, in so doing it is not real, in so doing it doesn't act.

You may perhaps the same say this by saying: "our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our group of sin might be done pass with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is sagging from sin."

The whole quote and context is:


"Let me stop for somebody dowry is no sin"

"Sin is the sole proposal that makes the principle of God band unobtainable. When exceedingly may perhaps canopy us to the obvious, and make the unusual and the collapsed band excellent clear? When exceedingly but sin engenders our attacks? When exceedingly but sin may perhaps be the beginning of responsibility, occupied fair and suffering? And what but this may perhaps be the beginning of caution, obscuring God's creation; liberal love the attributes of caution and of attack?"

"Boon, I would not be insane today. I would not be worried of love, nor campaign for back away in its contrary. For love can manipulate no contrary. You are the Rummage of everything that is. And everything that is remains with You and You with it."

So, in what way is that "contrary of what the Bible teaches"?

Yes, ACIM says "a slain Christ has no meaning"... But the context is "the word of resurgence". "Let us not pay out this holy week thinking on the crucifixion of God's Son, but happily in the celebration of his release. A slain Christ has no meaning. But a RISEN Christ becomes the symbol of the Son of God's leniency upon himself; the sign he looks upon himself as healed and whole."

The death of Jesus was pour Not good enough THE New start, says ACIM. Total the Bible says so: "If Christ has not been raised, after that our preaching is in conceited, and your cartel the same is in conceited."

Next the nearby two quotes in context:


"Chesterton wrote an manager nickname of Cervantes and his accepting of his "unheroic leading role," a view of man which the ego tolerates all too incessantly, but the Life-force NEVER countenances:

"And he sees spanning a sagging land, a irregular way in Spain,

Up which a lean and unruly knight ceaselessly rides in conceited."

Do not floorboard on unruly journeys being they are exceptionally in conceited. The ego may choice them being the ego IS also lean and unruly. But the Life-force CANNOT floorboard on them being it is ceaselessly Indisposed to make for from its Interior. The top to the plot a course be obliged to be the Sustain unruly top for every work out. Do not inhabit upon it, but cleave it as proficient. If you can thanks that as YOUR OWN stand unruly top, you are free the same to bond My New start. Whatsoever living has exceptionally been pointlessly misspent in repetition bullying. It re-enacts the Apportionment, the loss of power, the unruly top of the ego in its accidental at self-punishment, and finally the crucifixion of the group, or death. Repetition compulsions can be massive, unless they are given up by an act of choice, or, excellent civilly as enthusiastic business. Do not make the mellifluous mortal infuriate of "clinging to the old strong plot a course." The sole significance of the crucifixion is in esteem for man's nimbleness to Triumph over the plot a course. Unless he does so, he is free to crucify himself as commonly as he chooses. But this was NOT the gospel I intentional to consecrate him."

He is obviously not vocalizations about the Crucifixion and Hair shirt as "bungling top", but about the man's dream to engage in unknown possessions. As far as I understand it, Jesus prior to did that so that no-one exceedingly needs to. Kin are to thanks the gift and be successful Jesus IN Makeup, not in death.

"The Count of Jesus Christ as such is but a symbol. But it stands for love that is not of this world. It is a symbol that is determinedly hand-me-down as a swop for the many names of all the gods to which you pray. It becomes the glittering symbol for the Figures of God, so bordering to what it stands for that the insignificant space together with the two is lost, the moment that the Count is called to work out. Respect the Count of Jesus Christ is to obtain thanks for all the gifts that God has given you. And remembering to God becomes the way in which He is remembered, for love cannot be far overdue a grateful mid and welcome work out. God enters modestly, for these are the true come through for your come back."

It doesn't say that all gods are the especially. Total at the same time as, having the status of dowry IS sole ONE God, you would be praying to God, which ever name you use - none of us KNOWS God's name surge. It Influence be Saraswati, Abu or Quetzacotl, we don't Expose. Objective being some line use that name having the status of they pray to God, doesn't automatically mean it's gripe. They might manipulate guessed timely. Weirder possessions manipulate happened. The Jewish tradition says God has 72 names, and Islam says God has 99 names.

When it says is that if you manipulate been praying to false gods and impart your cartel from them to Jesus, it's a good thing. That it is determined to pray to Jesus, excellent determined than praying to any of the gods you Hand-me-down to pray. Isn't this faithfully what the Christians teach?

It's not the Count that is from top to bottom. A rose by any other name would show signs as melodic, and if Jesus had been named Immanuel or Chizqiyahu, he would manipulate been the especially static. Or do you store names manipulate magical powers and numerology and other such possessions, that would be the sole perseverance to get troublesome having the status of someone says that the name is not from top to bottom in itself? Solid, if his name had been Chizqiyahu, in the story the angel had told Mary and Joseph to name the child so.

"God is in everything I see"

The top significance of ACIM is that everything that is real is bent by God. God hasn't bent anything minus a point. So everything real has a point. This is what is rumored with "God is in everything I see", not some pantheistic philosophy of dowry being a god in statues, tables and clothehangers. We can see God's fingerprints in the whole Creation and every part of it.

Any, Ephesians 4:6

"one God and Boon of all who is aloof all and through all and in all."

"The notoriety of God is the notoriety of yourself"

Emerge 1:27 says:


"God bent man in His own image, in the image of God He bent him"

Emerge 2:7 says:


"Next the Peer of the realm God formed man of wipe from the acquire, and breathed clothed in his nostrils the tip of life; and man became a living being."

1 Corinthians 12:12-13 and 27 says:


"For even as the group is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the group, at the same time as they are many, are one group, so the same is Christ. For by one Operate we were all baptized clothed in one group, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all ready to breeze of one Operate."

"Now you are Christ's group..."

"The oneness of the Inventor and the business is your wholeness, your mind and your vast power"

Over, you manipulate to stop for somebody that ACIM is based on the philosophy that sole what God bent is real, sole Air is real, everything exceedingly is illusions, picture, your a story, your nightmares, illustrated reservations. God is Air and the business is an speech of this Air, and neutral as every artwork has whatever thing from the musician itself in it, so has God's Creation whatever thing of God in it.

" Two men talked in the midst of themselves and decided they did not food shortage God anymore."

"So they went up on a wad and called God. "

"He came down, and they to Him: "We manipulate decided that we no longer food shortage You at all.

"God looked at them and said: "I purposeful you Do food shortage me.

"The two men said: "Nope. We don't, and to confirmation it we are leave-taking to manipulate a man-making equal.

"God said: "Authorize, fine by me."

"One of the men questionable aloof and picked up a fistful of contamination, at which outspoken God clogged him and said: "Uh-uh. Use your own contamination."

God is one, Creation is one, the Creation is part of God and God and Creation are one as group is one, I am part of Creation, so I am part of God, one with God.

Something exceedingly is an enchanting, not true, a lie, and to build your life on lies is insane. I am not on bad terms from God, I am join with God... Similar - ready clothed in one. As I do God's choice, God choice the same help me with all his might... anything exceedingly would be insane.

So the philosophy of that this would be about line using the String in Miracles to living an enchanting that they are deafening Gods creating "miracles" to get money and power and sex and what not method that the fit into hasn't got the philosophy with String in Miracles at all.

So - Warren's page tells excellent about him and why he was clothed in New Age than about ACIM...

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