| Answer
from Jesus:
One of the greatest
problems on earth today is that so many people have come to accept a
false image of God. Obviously, there are many false images, but the
one that concerns me the most is the idea that God is an angry and judgmental
God who is ready to punish even the slightest transgression of his law.
I have gone to great length to explain to you the law of cause and effect,
including reincarnation and karma (see Did
Jesus teach reinacration?). If you will contemplate my explanation
with an open heart, you will realize that God does not consciously or
actively punish people’s sins.
The reality of the situation is that because God gave people free will,
God had to provide a safety mechanism so that a soul would not become
lost by misusing that free will. It was God’s original intention
that all souls would express their individuality and use their free
will in a way that did not violate the very laws that God used to create
this universe. Obviously, if you live in this universe and violate the
laws upon which the universe is based, then you will inevitably self-destruct.
It is important for you to understand that God’s law does not
limit your creative expression. For example, look at the situation on
planet earth. You have been given a beautiful planet that is perfectly
capable of sustaining a large number of people. Yet, we now see a pollution
of the environment which ultimately could destroy the environment and
therefore prevent you from expressing any kind of creativity and freedom.
Likewise, human beings had developed nuclear weapons and a large-scale
nuclear war could destroy the environment and limit your creative expression.
Obviously, pollution and nuclear war is not in accordance with God’s
law. It is perfectly possible for human beings to live on planet earth
without destroying their environment. And it is perfectly possible for
them to do so in such a way that they still have plenty of room for
creative expression.
It is not God’s intention to limit your creativity, and his law
is not a restriction on your freedom. If you knew God’s law, you
would naturally choose to express your creativity in such a way that
it would not destroy yourself. The problem is, of course, that because
people have fallen into the lower consciousness dominated by the carnal
mind, they no longer know God’s law. This was not what God intended,
yet because God gave you free will, God could do nothing to stop you.
What could God possibly have done with a group of souls who fell into
a lower state of consciousness and forgot their divine origin? Well,
God could have destroyed these souls, and that is precisely what an
angry and judgmental God would have done. The very fact that you are
alive demonstrates that your God is not an angry and judgmental God.
Your God is a God of mercy and compassion, and therefore he has given
people a second chance. In fact, he has given people many second chances.
God does not punish you
My point here is that God does not punish you for your mistakes. When
God gave you free will, he simply set up a safety mechanism so that
if you misuse your free will, you will not automatically and immediately
self-destruct. God created an impersonal law which returns all energy
to you with the same qualification that it had when you sent out that
energy. Therefore, you will reap as you have sown.
Obviously, if all of your current conditions are the consequences of
your own actions, and if all of your actions, past or present, are the
results of choices you make with your free will, then it simply does
not make sense to say that the current conditions on planet earth are
the result of God’s punishment.
These conditions were not created by God, and they are not what God
wants for his children. The current conditions on planet earth are created
by human beings. I freely admit that the vast majority of humankind
have created these conditions out of ignorance. In fact, people have
to a very large degree been tricked into creating the current misery
on planet earth. They have been tricked into creating this misery by
a small group, a power elite, of souls who deliberately and willfully
rebelled against God’s law.
Nevertheless, the somber fact is that human beings are punishing themselves
and they continue to punish themselves, because they continue to allow
themselves to remain in ignorance of God’s law. God has sent many
prophets, spiritual teachers and messengers in an attempt to make people
change their ways. Yet, up until this point, God’s message has
been ignored by so many people that God cannot bring major changes to
planet earth. God must simply wait until more people reach beyond the
carnal mind and begin to put on their personal Christhood.
Every human being has the potential to stop this downward spiral and
to reach for the Christ consciousness. I will admit that this potential
has not been common knowledge. Nevertheless, it is not my intent to
lament what might have been. It is my intent to demonstrate to you what
can be, both now and in the future.
If you don’t like what you see in your personal life, take responsibility
for your situation and recreate yourself in the image and likeness of
God. If you don’t like what you see on planet earth, take responsibility
for that situation and recreate the earth in the image and likeness
of the kingdom of God.
I am Jesus Christ, and I am part of a team or spiritual beings who have
pledged their lives to help humankind rise out of their current misery.
We want to see God’s kingdom and the abundant life manifest on
earth. We have immense power, and we stand ready to help you at any
moment. Yet, we must respect our Father’s law of free will. If
you choose to remain in ignorance, if you choose not to take responsibility
for your own life and for the planet as a whole, then we must simply
wait until you make a better decision.
I have come to tell you that it is time to make that decision.
If even a small number of people on this planet would make the decision
to pursue the path of individual Christhood, we of the Ascended hosts
could immediately bring dramatic change to this plant. We are ready
and waiting; we simply need your call.
Make peace with God
I have personally walked the earth, and I know what it is like to be
under the intense weight of humankind’s karma. Yet, I now reside
in heaven, and therefore I know the incredible difference between the
state of consciousness found in heaven and the state of consciousness
that currently dominates earth. I also know that God wants every human
being to rise to the state of consciousness that we have in heaven,
namely the Christ consciousness. However, to attain this state of consciousness,
you must heal your relationship to God. How can you possibly inherit
God’s kingdom of Christ consciousness as long as you fear or resent
God?
If you are willing to start healing your relationship to God, if you
want to overcome the idea that God is an angry and judgmental God, then
you need to raise your consciousness above the level of the carnal mind.
If you will make an effort to do so, I promise you that it is possible
for you to experience the peace, the joy and the love that exists in
heaven.
If you are willing to begin this process of healing, I suggest that
you start reading some of the many inspirational books found in the
bookstores and libraries of earth. Some of these books describe near-death
experiences where people left the physical body behind and traveled
into the spiritual realms. Such books can be a great inspiration, if
you read them with an open heart.
There are also many other spiritual and religious books, from every
major religion or from no particular religion, that describe spiritual
and mystical experiences that will give you a glimpse of the state of
consciousness we have here in heaven.
In heaven, you find none of the turmoil that you experience on earth.
You find peace.
You find love, and that love is different from the love that most people
experience on earth. God’s love is truly unconditional. I know
that as long as a person is enveloped in the carnal mind, he or she
simply cannot fathom the concept of unconditional love. Yet, when you
start walking the path of personal Christhood, you will, sooner or later,
experience a glimpse of God’s unconditional love.
You must understand that we of the Ascended host desire nothing more
than to have you experience and accept the unconditional love that we
feel for you. You might recall that I talked about perfect love which
casts out all fear. The perfect love that I was talking about is the
unconditional love of God. Were you to experience even a glimpse of
that unconditional love, your life would be permanently transformed.
I am not thereby saying that you would instantaneously be turned into
a perfect human being. I am saying that you would realize that there
is an alternative to the state of consciousness that you experience
on earth. This experience would give you the motivation and the drive
to pursue your personal Christhood with all the diligence and fervor
of your heart. Once you have experienced God’s unconditional love,
you simply will not allow any human condition (be it inside or outside
your own psyche) to stand in the way of your inner walk towards Christ
consciousness.
Christ consciousness is the mediator between heaven and earth. It is
the mediator between the state of consciousness experienced by the spiritual
beings here in heaven and the level of consciousness experienced by
human beings who are lost in the relativity of the carnal mind.
My greatest desire is that I could give you the experience of God’s
unconditional love and make you truly accept that the creator of this
universe has an infinite love for you personally.
So many people believe that they are not worthy of God’s love.
So many people are afraid to approach God, because they have allowed
themselves to believe that unless they live up to some standard defined
by some church or authority, they will be rejected by God. The simple
fact is that your soul will never be rejected by God. God wants you,
his son or daughter, to inherit the fullness of his kingdom of unconditional
love.
Reaching for God
However, you must understand that the flesh and blood of the carnal
mind cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven. You cannot experience God’s
love through the carnal mind. The problem is that because people have
not been taught about individual Christhood, so many sincere and well-meaning
people attempt to approach God from the level of the carnal mind. When
you approach God from the level of the carnal mind, God does not realize
that he is being approached, because his eyes cannot behold the inequity
of the carnal mind. Therefore, people feel rejected by God.
Let me tell you a parable that explains the situation. Imagine that
you are trying to reach a person who lives in New York City. You have
a telephone and a telephone book. If you have ever seen the New York
telephone book, you will know that it contains millions of numbers.
You don’t know the name of the person you are trying to reach,
and therefore you have no way of finding his telephone number. Yet,
you know that if you do not dial the right number, you will not reach
that person.
What can you do? You can begin from the beginning and dial every number
in the book. Yet, if you do so, you will inevitably experience many
failed attempts, and it might take you a long time to get through to
the right person. The simple fact is that most religious people are
trying to reach God without having his telephone number. Therefore,
they do not get through, and they feel discouraged and rejected.
I am here to tell you that it is not difficult to find God’s telephone
number. To find it, you simply need to reach for the Christ consciousness.
If you are reading these teachings, you have manifested a certain level
of Christ consciousness. Therefore, you already have the potential to
experience that state of consciousness and thereby to experience God’s
unconditional and very personal love for you. Please contemplate the
concept of unconditional love.
The God of the Bible
I am aware that some Christians will think that the ideas I am expressing
here contradict the image of God given in the Bible. Therefore, I would
like you to participate in a little thought experiment. I would like
you to imagine what it would be like if you were a spiritual teacher
residing up here in the spiritual world. You are now looking at humankind,
and the question you need to consider is how you could possibly help
humankind rise to a higher level of consciousness.
It is not difficult see that some people are in a very low or dense
state of consciousness. They have become so enveloped in the relativity
of the carnal mind that they literally believe they have the right to
do anything they want to other people. They also believe they can get
away with doing anything they want.
From your vantage point as a spiritual being, you clearly see that because
of the law of cause and effect, these people are on the fasttrack to
destroying themselves. They are simply creating a mountain of karma,
and it is only a matter of time before an avalanche will slide down
that mountain and bury them. Yet, these people are so entrenched in
their state of consciousness that it is impossible to reach them with
any kind of spiritual message.
What could you possibly do to reach such people? How could you possibly
shake them out of their current state of consciousness and make them
realize that unless they change their ways, they will inevitably destroy
themselves? I am sure you will realize that the only way to reach such
people is with a very stern and direct message. Some people have literally
descended to such a low state of consciousness that the only way they
could possibly be shaken out of that state of consciousness is by fear.
These people will not change their ways unless they fear the consequences
of their actions. In other words, some people will only change out of
the fear of punishment.
When you come to this understanding, you realize the dilemma in which
we of the ascended hosts find ourselves. We do not want to be feared
by people. Yet, we do not want to see our brothers and sisters destroy
themselves. If the only thing that can motivate people to change their
ways is fear, then what are we to do?
We of the Ascended hosts are quite serious about saving people and bringing
every soul back home. We will go to great length to wake up a soul and
make that soul realize that it must change its ways. If a soul can only
be awakened through fear, then we will take on the appearance of an
angry God. If the soul needs to be motivated by punishment, then we
will seek to make people see the threat of such punishment. Because
the law of cause and effect makes people punish themselves for their
actions, this threat is very real.
It is essential for you to understand that what you see in the Bible
is not the highest spiritual teaching that God desires to bring to this
planet. What you see in both the Old and the New Testament is a measured
response that is designed to work with the state of consciousness that
people had at the time the teaching was released. I have already told
you about progressive revelation (see Teachings
section). The Law of Moses was given to people in a very low state of
consciousness. Therefore, they needed a very stern message.
Obviously my Sermon on the Mount was a more gentle message. Yet, it
was still very direct. It has always been the hope of the Ascended hosts
that humankind as a whole will grow to a level of consciousness where
they can receive the true teachings of God, namely the teachings of
God’s unconditional love.
Obviously, this does not mean that the Bible is outdated. Even today,
many people are still in the state of consciousness that was addressed
in the Law of Moses. Yet, today many people are ready for the higher
teachings of love. If you are reading these teachings, you should count
yourself among them. It was my original hope that people would use my
teachings to walk the path of personal Christhood. As a critical mass
of people walked that path and attained some measure of Christhood,
it would be possible for me to release the highest teachings of God’s
love.
I believe that we are now approaching the time when these teachings
must come forth. If a critical mass of people will heed my directions
and reach for their personal Christhood, then it will not be long before
I can deliver the true teachings of God’s unconditional love.
No need for guilt
I want you to understand that God created you in his image and likeness.
God gave you free will, and God gave you the right to experiment with
that free will. God realized that it was inevitable that some of his
sons and daughters would use their free will to violate his laws. Obviously,
God does not want you to make choices that are self-destructive. Yet,
God is not angry at you for making such choices, and God does not condemn
you for making such choices. Therefore, God does not want to make you
feel guilty or condemned for having made such choices. God has no desire
to see you live an entire lifetime, or even many lifetimes, with the
feeling that you are a miserable sinner who is unworthy to approach
God.
God does not want you to feel bad for having made a mistake. God wants
you to feel free to admit that you have made a mistake, to accept God’s
forgiveness and to stop making further mistakes.
The problem on planet earth today is that so many people have accepted
the idea that they are miserable sinners, and therefore they dare not
even approach God and ask for forgiveness. As a result, they continue
to make choices that are based on the carnal mind, and therefore they
continue to build a wall between themselves and God’s forgiveness
and love. This is not what God desires to see happen. God wants all
of his son and daughters to step out of the negative spiral whereby
they remove themselves further and further from his kingdom.
I am aware that some people will misuse the idea of God’s forgiveness.
The kind of people who bought letters of absolvency and then sinned
with a “clean” conscience are simply not ready for the teaching
that God’s forgiveness is infinite. Yet, I trust that few of these
people will ever read these teachings. Therefore, I desire to release
to you the teaching that God’s mercy and forgiveness is indeed
infinite. Furthermore, God’s forgiveness is instantaneous.
God simply wants you to abandon the relative consciousness that causes
you to violate God’s laws. Because of free will, you must make
a choice to let go of that state of consciousness. However, at the very
moment you make that choice, all of your transgressions, all of your
mistakes, all of your sins are instantaneously forgiven.
God simply wants you to come home, and you cannot come home as long
as you feel like a miserable sinner who is unworthy to approach God.
Therefore, God wants you to overcome that feeling so that you can feel
worthy to enter his kingdom. God wants you to feel that you are welcome
and will be accepted by him.
Your acceptance into God’s kingdom does not depend on the acts
that you have or have not committed. Your acceptance into God’s
kingdom depends on only one thing, namely your state of consciousness.
To enter God’s kingdom, you must abandon the carnal mind and unite
with the Christ mind. The very process of putting off the old state
of consciousness and putting on the new state of consciousness is enough
to qualify you for God’s forgiveness. Therefore, after you make
the decision to pursue personal Christhood, you must make a conscious
effort to let go of the belief that you are a miserable sinner who is
unworthy to enter God’s kingdom.
The law of karma
God created you in his own image and likeness. Therefore, from the very
beginning you were worthy to inherit God’s kingdom. From the very
beginning, you were worthy to receive God’s unconditional love.
Nothing you could possibly do will make you unworthy of receiving God’s
unconditional love. If it could, God’s love would not be unconditional.
I want you to contemplate these ideas until you begin to accept that
you are indeed worthy of approaching God and that you can, by putting
on the full measure of your personal Christhood, become worthy to enter
God’s kingdom.
However, I must also tell you that God’s forgiveness does not
remove your personal karma. To fully escape the downward pull of planet
earth, you must balance your personal karma. What I am trying to make
you see here is that when you commit a wrong act, two things happen:
- You create a
certain amount of personal karma. You can think of this as incurring
a debt to life. This karma is misqualified energy, and because the
energy was misqualified in the material universe, you create a certain
gravitational pull that keeps your soul tied to the material universe.
That is why you must continue to reincarnate until you balance your
personal karma. In other words, as long as you have unbalanced karma
in the material world, you are not free to ascend to the spiritual
world.
- You create a
distance between you and God. That distance exists only in you mind,
but it originated when your soul first decided to turn away from God.
Every wrong act you commit only reinforces the wall that you have
built between yourself and God. To return to God’s kingdom,
you must tear down this psychological barrier, and you can only do
so by accepting God’s forgiveness and thereby rebuilding your
sense of being a son or daughter who is worthy to enter your Father’s
kingdom. As long as you maintain the slightest sense of unworthiness,
you cannot make the free-will decision to step through the gate that
leads to God’s kingdom.
All wrong acts
are the results of a certain state of consciousness, a certain state
of ignorance. At the moment you forsake that state of consciousness,
your mistake is forgiven by God. You should allow yourself to feel and
accept God’s forgiveness, because it will be of great encouragement
to you as you walk the path to Christhood. Yet, at the same time you
must not forget that God’s forgiveness does not remove the karma
you made through your wrong actions. That karma must be balanced before
you are free of those actions.
I want you to remember that karma is a debt to life. When you earnestly
walk the path of personal Christhood, you will lay up treasures in heaven
that will make it far easier for you to balance your karma from the
past. In other words, if you become a spiritual millionaire, it will
be easy to pay back your debts to life.
I want you to contemplate the concepts of forgiveness and unconditional
love. I want you to realize and accept that you are indeed worthy to
inherit your Father’s kingdom. You see, because God’s love
in unconditional, you do not have to do anything to earn God’s
love. You earned that love the moment God created your soul.
Therefore, you simply have to accept God’s love.
If you are not experiencing God’s unconditional love, it is not
because God is hiding that love from you. It is because you are hiding
from God’s love. Simply stop rejecting God’s love. It is
indeed the Father’s good pleasure to give you his love.
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