Either God is Love or God Made the World

What God did not create does not exist. And everything that does exist exists as He created it. The world you see has nothing to do with reality. It is of your own making, and it does not exist. (W-14.1)

The reason many of the world’s religions are so contradictory is that they try to reconcile a hellish world with a loving God. Yet only one of these things can be true. No one can look on this world and think the god that made it is love. And if God is love, it must follow that God did not make this hellish world.

Some try to reconcile hell and God by telling you that God has a purpose, even if you cannot see it. You are supposed to just submit to misery and trust that it is all for your own good. Yet,

God has no secrets. He does not lead you through a world of misery, waiting to tell you, at the journey's end, why He did this to you. (T-22.I.3)

It takes a while for new students to break the habit of thinking that God made the world. So many prayers of gratitude that are learned in traditional religions entwine God with the world. You may have learned to thank God for the meal you are about to eat or for the beautiful sunset or for your family and friends. But it is not God who is responsible for these things. As much as you may love these things, they are symbols of separation.

Be grateful, instead, that God did not make separation and that the Oneness God did create is untouched by anything that seems to happen in a seeming world.

www.acimmentor.com
To receive this blog in your email contact me at Liz@acimmentor.com

Comments

Erika Awakening said…
Hi, I feel happy to find your blog ... another Teacher of the Course ... I invite you to my blog too (it's a little bit risque and little bit controversial). Cheers :) - Erika
7:12 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Ask: What is meant by "extend Love"?

I wonder exactly what is meant by "extend love" or how one extends love. Is it a loving intention toward the person, or a wish for them, or what? Can you give an example? – JO “Extending love” means replacing unloving thoughts in your mind with the awareness of Love in your mind. For example, your peace of mind is disturbed while watching something on television. Your peace is gone because you believe that what you see is reality. You extend Love in this situation by turning inward to Truth (God), feeling Love’s Presence within you, and remembering that It, not the images appearing, is What is Real. It may take you a while to accept that only your own thoughts cause you pain. So at first you may feel that you need to extend Love “out there” to the images that seem to be causing you pain. Or you may extend Love to another who is sharing their painful story with you. You can do this by imagining the situation or the person in a Loving Light. Or you may use some other image to
Read more

If the World Isn't Real, Why Ask For Guidance?

Every now and then a student asks me why they should follow the Holy Spirit’s guidance if the world isn’t real and if it has nothing to do with God. What difference does it make how you live in the world, then? All that you made can serve salvation easily and well. The Son of God can make no choice the Holy Spirit cannot employ on his behalf, and not against himself. (T-25.VI.7) The world is your perception that you are separate from God. Calling on the Holy Spirit to guide you in it corrects this misperception. You are no longer separate from God when you are following the Holy Spirit. What you ask the Holy Spirit and what the Holy Sprit answers is not important. What is important is that you asked and that you accepted an answer . When you follow the Holy Spirit the purpose of every circumstance becomes a means to be with the Holy Spirit. The world that was made to make separation from God real to you becomes a means of remembering you are One with God. It doesn’t matter to God ho
Read more

More on Emotional Satisfaction or Freedom

Last week’s article ( http://acimmentor.blogspot.com/2017/02/emotional-satisfaction-or-freedom.html ) about the two possible approaches to spirituality and how one way to characterize them is the pursuit of emotional satisfaction for the self or transcending the self led to a lot of comments and questions that I will try to clear up here. (The article was a follow-up to two other articles I had written on the same topic. Some of the questions readers had could be answered in those earlier articles and links were provided in last week’s article. If you still have questions I suggest reading those as well as last week’s article for a fuller look at the topic). The emotional satisfaction I wrote about in the last article was not referring to what one seeks in relation to others. It was referring to the desire for an emotional connection with Truth (God) that one would characterize as “warm”. I was highlighting how which goal we pursue in spirituality can often be revealed by the
Read more