Are You A Sinner?

Look to Heb 8:7 for news that the Bible does indeed contain faults.

"For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second."
- King James Version

This is in reference to the Old Testament (the Laws of Moses) being replaced by the New Testament (the teachings of Jesus Christ.) Not unlike anything else in the Bible, this verse has many interpretations. One obvious interpretation is that something faulty is being replaced by something correct. A not so obvious interpretation is that to not see the good is to sin against God. This latter interpretation requires spanning many verses and seeing the connections between them. The problem with either of these interpretations is that they have the element of condemnation in them, that we are all sinners in need of forgiveness, as do the most common (Christian) interpretations of the Bible. I will show that it is impossible to sin, even though you may sincerely believe that you do.

I'm convinced that to attempt to interpret the Bible verbatim is to create yet another upside-down world. Parts of it are obvious, parts aren't. It's in trying to interpret the not so obvious parts that we get into trouble. Truth (the sword) and Love (the bow) are God's only weapons against corruption. He needs nothing else for He is nothing else. And they are not weapons that slay souls, for where Truth is known and where Love abides there is no sin that can corrupt any soul. And any soul that is seemingly corrupt (a condition of the mind, not a reality, for in God's kingdom the only reality is what He created, and corruption is not anything that He created) can only be saved (redeemed), not destroyed, by these gifts. What is destroyed is the illusion of something gone wrong, or sin. These simple facts can easily be supported by many of the more obvious verses in the Bible, and nowhere in the Bible can they be disputed.

Look to discover this and begin to ask yourself, does God only Love, or does he also destroy? In Isaiah chapter 4 you will read that God seemingly destroys people with the sword and the bow. What kind of people are being destroyed? In this instance, Kings. For the moment, let's look at the Bible as allegory wherein all things are symbols and put aside their close affinity with history. Let's look at the Bible from within rather than from without. Kings are the lords of earthly things, things which are bound by perception and belief and which are governed by laws not of God. In other words, that which thought contrives to be so. Can we now interpret that instead of people, the children of God, being destroyed by bows and arrows that it is ignorance and illusion that are being destroyed by Truth and Love? What would the message be now? What can we learn of this?

The presence of Truth transforms our perceptions into the vision of God. The presence of Love transforms our corrupt attitudes into right action. This transformation appears to those who believe in sin that something has been destroyed. Think again, how is it that for a God whom only Loves (for that is what He is and nothing else) that He can find a way to not love anything that He created. And if He didn't create it (corruption) then how can He know that such a thing exists - because if He didn't create it, it surely doesn't exist! (Rev 4:11 - Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.) That which is not His, He knows not of. This means that corruption (sin) is something made up in thought and is preserved in belief as a way to think of ourselves as separate from Him who created us. How can we be separate from Him if He is all that is? We can only be in Him and He in us.

It is we who believe in sin. It is we who think we are not in Him and play this game of mortality - birth, sickness, and death. God would have us know only Life eternal and be joyous in His power and extend His love as He extended it to us.

You have been asked before to accept God, but have you? Do you still believe in sin and that it has power over you or anyone? If sin has no place in God's kingdom (Ibid) then how can it have any power save that which we endow it with in our little minds? And how, except that we believe it so, can we be born and die in a world that has a beginning and end, a world apart from God. And being apart from God, can the world as we see it really exist?

You will know that you believe in sin when you condemn even one of God's creations with harsh words or unkind thoughts, including yourself. You will know that you believe in sin as long as you believe that you are a body, that you come into existence and go out of existence as the body comes and goes, or that you have a beginning and an end apart from God.

Do you still accept that you have roots in this world and, like the world, are bound in time and space or are you ready to accept that you are as God created you, eternal, One, and nothing else? This was Paul's (of the New Testament) one and only question. This was Jesus' one and only question. This is the only question that you need to answer. Think not that in answering this question with a 'yes' that you will sacrifice anything save the mindless thoughts that keep you apart from God. Your unloving thoughts are the only sacrifice that God wants from you. All else are gifts from Him to you. By accepting His gifts they are returned to Him tenfold. When you no longer believe in your little self as made for this world and come to see your higher self as created in the image of God, then you will be able to truly live and think not of the little concerns that seem to make this world more real than God. Then, will you see with the vision of God.

You have made many mistakes, the first being that you saw yourself apart from God. To sin against God is to believe you are apart from God, which you cannot be. To blaspheme God is to foreswear any of His creations, which is insanity because it is like saying that Truth does not exist. With all this said, you should now be able to see that you cannot sin, that you have never sinned, and you never will. But that does not mean that you have not tried, nor ever will try again. That dream, the dream of living apart from God, is a living nightmare. Your own Hell.

To continue in your dream that you are apart from God is a mistake that can be corrected, not a sin that must be punished.

There is much more that can be said about this, but this will suffice to draw your attention to the one mistake that we have all made that perpetuates the many more that are nonetheless the same as the first. We are not separate from God as we would believe and as our religions teach in their faulty interpretation of God's Word. His Word is Love for He cannot speak of Himself in any way but that which He is. In Love there is no other, no second, nothing outside of itself. You are created in His image. You are Love. God and you are one. Your oneness in Him gives you all the power that He has, and that power creates only Love. Teach only love, for that is what you are. To declare anything else is to be mistaken about yourself, about God, about Truth. To correct a mistake is to simply forgive yourself for that mistake and accept the Truth in its place. God is all there is. Nothing that you see that is not seen with God's vision has any meaning. You gave all the meaning there is to the world you see. To value a thing is to give it a priority. In God there is no priority in anything. All is equal in His sight because all is one. All is of Him. All is in Him.

Someone once told me that I was too Spiritual to be of any Earthly good. To this I respond, render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, or, if you have a body (not, if your are a body,) use it. Paul (Ibid) didn't think that this was such a good idea. One outcome of using bodies is a tendency to value them, so Paul put forward guidelines for behavior that hopefully would deter misguided thinking. Well, that didn't work. We misinterpreted his guidelines. But to experience being in a body is quite another thing. The caution here is still: you get what you ask for. If you do not plan your goals to be in accordance with God's Will (not your will) then only what your will can achieve will be what you can get for your actions - which is nothing. The body can be seen as a learning tool. As long as you see yourself in a body then you may as well learn what it can teach you about the Will of God, the presence of His Love, and the reality of Life eternal. To have any other purpose for the body is to throw away the greatest education you can ever have.

Sickness teaches that you are not your body by showing you that the body can be disrupted. Love cannot be disrupted. Death teaches you that you are not your body by showing you that the body can cease to exist in its present form. Love exists eternally and has no form. If Love had any form then it, like the body, would have a beginning and an end. Birth teaches you that you are not your body by showing you that there seems to be a beginning to life. Love has no beginning because God is Love, and God is eternal. Notice that I give Love and Life the same meaning. They are different, but only God knows what that difference is. For now, think of them as the same.

If you were your body, or any part in it, then you would be a temporary thing and God could not have created you. Jesus, in the resurrection, showed us clearly that the body, the symbol of the lower nature, can be laid down and picked up again - and with Love it is done. It was not a feat limited only to Jesus. Jesus, keeping with our allegory and inner meaning, is symbolic of our Christ nature, the joining of the lower nature with spirit. Christ is the messenger of God, and God has only one message: I am. In Him is our being. We are His creation. What He creates is eternal because it is of Him. What He did not create does not exist. God did not create anything that is not eternal, because He is eternal.

I hope I have interested you in this. My only aim is to be truly helpful. You might think that you would have difficulty in applying this concept to your daily life, or you might say that you will have no part of it. I cannot ask you to accept anything against your wishes because God would have it no other way. If there is more that you feel you need to know to fully understand this then I will be happy to reveal it to you. All your questions will be answered in the way that you ask the question. If you are afraid of the answer, then your question will have fear in it and the answer will be shadowed in your fear, for where there is fear Love cannot be. If you are not afraid of the answer, then you will have the answer before you even ask it. My talking about it will be as something you already know.

To explain that fear and Love cannot be in the same place is simple. Fear is a state of mind in which something can be lost or lacking. In Love nothing is ever lost or lacking. If you fear a thing, you have blocked the expression of Love. Conversely, if you are extending Love you cannot fear any thing, and neither is there any fear of God. To think that you fear something about yourself or another person is to fear something about God, for if He created you in His image than it must be something about Him that you fear. Stated another way, to fear God is to fear yourself. It is the Truth that you fear, and rightly so, for to have no fear of the Truth about yourself, about God, is to let go of your little thoughts about who or what you think you are. In that moment, those thoughts, and all that go with them, will no longer exist as you know them. Their form, their actions, their beginnings and endings will all disappear - dust to dust, ashes to ashes. You will be left with only what you are, Love. To the self that believes it is a body this is the end. This would be death everlasting. The body would believe that you are condemning it and punishing it for what it has done. But if you see yourself as Love, how then can you condemn any thing? Even that which you thought you were? In this is true forgiveness, and it is the last forgiveness the body ever needs.