‣ 15. What is sin and does God punish us for our sins?
‘There is no ‘sin’ as we understand it. We are born to behave as we do. We have to find a way to overcome our human thoughts and feelings for they separate us from the protection of the ‘Father’ and bring us our sickness and misery. When we have learnt how to overcome the ‘self’ we will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.’ (L2)
What is born and nurtured in the diseased mind eventually takes on form in the physical world. This is not punishment from ‘God’ as the churches may teach you. It is, a SCIENTIFIC FACT OF EXISTENCE. (L1)
There is no ‘punishment’ from on high! (L1)
There is no such thing as ‘punishment from ‘god’ ⎯ because no such individualised ‘human thinking’ god exists. This is a myth which should be erased from people’s minds. (A1)
Men, through the willful and harmful exercise of their ‘Ego-Power’, draw to themselves their own punishment. (L1)
All that man does which man calls ‘sin’ is only of this world and is only punished within this world ⎯ for it is a Law of Earthly Existence, as you know, that whatever you sow you will reap as a like harvest. Because he draws LIFE and MIND from the ‘Father’, man himself is creative in thought, words and deeds. Whatever he thinks, says, does, and believes, returns to him in like form, some time later. There is no punishment from the ‘Father’ ⎯ whatever ills come to mankind is of their own making entirely.’ (L2)
I saw that what men called ‘SIN’ was the direct result of the interplay of the Bonding-Rejection Impulses within human nature. (L5)
The Bonding-Rejection Impulses constituted the emotional/mental mask worn by all created individual entities, including birds and animals. You see these impulses at work within all of nature ⎯ even within plant life. (L5)
The Bonding-Rejection Impulses directed/directs the behaviour towards survival of all entities in creation. (L5)
There was no escaping the Bonding-Rejection Impulses. (L5)
These Twin Impulses were the ephemeral source of all ‘worldly’ comfort, pleasure, ‘happiness’ ⎯ and also the source of all sickness, misery and deprivation in the world. (L5)
I saw that ‘SIN’ was an artificial concept expediently devised by men to describe any human activity causing pain to others. Because of their natural make-up of ‘grabbing’ from other people, and of rudely repelling them, in order to get what they wanted from life, it was inevitable that all human beings would, at some time, cause other human beings some form of distress or suffering. This human propensity to hurt others in no way caused ‘offence’ to UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS (God) ⎯ as was affirmed by the Jewish and ‘Christian’ religion. (L5)
Only mankind understood the meaning of the word ‘sin’ since only mankind and all of ‘creation subject to mankind’, ‘would ever know the pain, deprivation and misery caused by the two fundamental IMPULSES of INDIVIDUALITY ⎯ Bonding-Rejection active within the human ‘personality’. (L5)
Man’s inbuilt impulse to protect his own individuality had made him set up rules and laws for human society. The ‘Universal Creative Power’ ⎯ LOVE ⎯ had absolutely nothing to do with the setting up of human restrictions, limitations, laws and judgement. (L5)
Whilst INFINITE UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS is not the mythical ‘God’ on high as depicted in the Old Testament, IT is the Infinitely Powerful Reality everywhere present, manifesting ITS own designing, intelligent, evolutionary, loving caring for all that IT has brought into being. (L8)
What is born and nurtured in the diseased mind eventually takes on form in the physical world. This is not punishment from ‘God’ as the churches may teach you. It is, a SCIENTIFIC FACT OF EXISTENCE. (L1)
There is no ‘punishment’ from on high! (L1)
There is no such thing as ‘punishment from ‘god’ ⎯ because no such individualised ‘human thinking’ god exists. This is a myth which should be erased from people’s minds. (A1)
Men, through the willful and harmful exercise of their ‘Ego-Power’, draw to themselves their own punishment. (L1)
All that man does which man calls ‘sin’ is only of this world and is only punished within this world ⎯ for it is a Law of Earthly Existence, as you know, that whatever you sow you will reap as a like harvest. Because he draws LIFE and MIND from the ‘Father’, man himself is creative in thought, words and deeds. Whatever he thinks, says, does, and believes, returns to him in like form, some time later. There is no punishment from the ‘Father’ ⎯ whatever ills come to mankind is of their own making entirely.’ (L2)
I saw that what men called ‘SIN’ was the direct result of the interplay of the Bonding-Rejection Impulses within human nature. (L5)
The Bonding-Rejection Impulses constituted the emotional/mental mask worn by all created individual entities, including birds and animals. You see these impulses at work within all of nature ⎯ even within plant life. (L5)
The Bonding-Rejection Impulses directed/directs the behaviour towards survival of all entities in creation. (L5)
There was no escaping the Bonding-Rejection Impulses. (L5)
These Twin Impulses were the ephemeral source of all ‘worldly’ comfort, pleasure, ‘happiness’ ⎯ and also the source of all sickness, misery and deprivation in the world. (L5)
I saw that ‘SIN’ was an artificial concept expediently devised by men to describe any human activity causing pain to others. Because of their natural make-up of ‘grabbing’ from other people, and of rudely repelling them, in order to get what they wanted from life, it was inevitable that all human beings would, at some time, cause other human beings some form of distress or suffering. This human propensity to hurt others in no way caused ‘offence’ to UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS (God) ⎯ as was affirmed by the Jewish and ‘Christian’ religion. (L5)
Only mankind understood the meaning of the word ‘sin’ since only mankind and all of ‘creation subject to mankind’, ‘would ever know the pain, deprivation and misery caused by the two fundamental IMPULSES of INDIVIDUALITY ⎯ Bonding-Rejection active within the human ‘personality’. (L5)
Man’s inbuilt impulse to protect his own individuality had made him set up rules and laws for human society. The ‘Universal Creative Power’ ⎯ LOVE ⎯ had absolutely nothing to do with the setting up of human restrictions, limitations, laws and judgement. (L5)
Whilst INFINITE UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS is not the mythical ‘God’ on high as depicted in the Old Testament, IT is the Infinitely Powerful Reality everywhere present, manifesting ITS own designing, intelligent, evolutionary, loving caring for all that IT has brought into being. (L8)