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NOTE: This
answer was given on November 19, 2006, after the NEW
DIRECTION was implemented.
Answer from Jesus:
You are correct is saying
that, “Jesus (thru Kim) does not support the idea that God’s
Will will ultimately win out and Love will save all souls” However,
let me comment on the expression “Jesus (thru Kim).” The
existence of the second death whereby a soul is annihilated is a spiritual
reality. It is not a matter of what Kim or any other person believes
about it. It is a fact that will not be changed by what human beings
want to believe, just as the Earth was round when everyone believed
it to be flat.
The greatest problem for any true spiritual teacher is that too many
people prefer to cling to their pet theories rather than open their
minds to the reality that is presented by the Ascended Host. We see
that reality because we have risen above the subjectivity and relativity
of the human ego. We are quite willing to help people do the same, but
we can do our job only when people are willing to let
go of the illusions that give their egos a sense of security and
instead face the reality of life.
To give people a greater understanding of the issue, let us use basic
logic.
Why do you need to be saved?
The concept of salvation implies that two states are possible, namely
salvation and non-salvation. If only salvation is possible, why do you
need to be saved? If you believe God created you, you must reason that
God must have created this dichotomy, meaning that God created the possibility
of non-salvation.
So you need to be saved because non-salvation is a possibility. If it
is God’s will that all souls are saved and if God’s will
is supreme or unbreakable, then why did God create a situation with
two options? Why not simply create souls in a state where non-salvation
is not possible?
If non-salvation is possible, then your salvation is not guaranteed.
Yet if it is God’s will that all souls be saved – but salvation
is not guaranteed – then it cannot be God’s will that determines
whether or not you are saved.
God has created a situation where your salvation is not guaranteed.
Yet God wants you to be saved. So there must be a mechanism that can
override God’s will and make non-salvation a reality.
That mechanism is your free will. The solution to the enigma is that
while it is God’s will that you be saved, but God wants you to
be saved as a result of your own free choices and not as a result of
some force from above. In other words, when God gave you free will,
God suspended its superior will when it comes to your salvation.
God obviously wants you to be saved, but God allows the outcome to be
determined through your choices. We might say that it is God’s
will that you make your own choices. It is God’s will that you
have free will.
If you are to have free will, then non-salvation must be possible. In
order for your will to be free, you must be able to choose any conceivable
option, including that your soul is not saved but is erased as if it
never existed. God does not want you to choose this option, but in giving
you free will, he must give you the option.
Free will necessitates that your choices have consequences. If your
choices do not have consequences, you do not have a choice. If you will
be saved no matter what you do – as fundamentalist Christians
believe I will save them if they declare me their Lord and Savior –
then where is your choice in the matter?
To have a choice, you must have more than one option, and what sets
options apart is their consequences. If you come to a fork in the road
but both ways take you to the same place, your choice of one way has
no consequence and thus was not a real choice.
God wants you to be saved, but as a result of your own choosing. So
if you will be saved no matter what you do, your choices have no ultimate
consequence, and thus you do not have ultimate freedom of choice. You
would simply be a puppet on a string, who might seem to move but truly
has no freedom to move on your own.
The problem with free will is that people impose their image of God
upon it. For example, fundamentalists look at it through the filter
of black-and-white
thinking. Thus, they think God must be almighty and therefore nothing
could ever go wrong in God’s creation. God must ultimately have
his will fulfilled. As I have explained, God has suspended his superior
will when it comes to your personal salvation.
Many New Age people or liberal Christians, including many universalists,
look at free will through the filter of gray
thinking. Thus, they think everything will ultimately be okay and
that God really has no absolutist laws. Consequently, all souls must
be saved in the end by Christ performing some kind of miracle. Yet if
I were to save all souls, I would have to force some of them to be saved,
and that would be an obvious violation of the Law of Free Will as I
have just explained it. Thus, there is such a thing as an ultimate consequence.
Let us now take this to a higher level. In the end, God’s will
is guaranteed to be fulfilled in the sense that the goal of the universe
will be met. The material universe will be raised up in vibration until
it becomes a part of the spiritual realm. However, it is still an open
question how many co-creators will become part of this ascending process
and how many will chose to step outside of it and thus ultimately face
dissolution.
What happens when a lifestream is dissolved? If you read the teaching
on your true identity,
you will see that there are three main aspects to your lower being:
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The conscious self is
an individualization of God’s Being that you have on loan
until you become an immortal spiritual being. Thus, when a lifestream
is dissolved, this conscious self simply blends back into the whole
of God’s Being as if it had never been apart. It is like a
wave that sinks back into the ocean when a storm is calmed.
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The sense of identity
is what you build as you journey through the material universe.
Yet a being will only be dissolved if it has built an identity that
is based on the mind of anti-christ. Nothing created from this dualistic
mind has ultimate reality, and thus it will be dissolved in the
process called the second death, Link
1, Link
2. This is comparable to turning on the light in a room, whereby
the darkness instantly disappears—because it has no substance.
- The energy out of which
your lower being – what most people call the soul – is
formed. This is what we call the Ma-ter light, and when you create
an identity based on the duality of anti-christ, the Ma-ter light
takes on an imperfect form. Yet when this identity is dissolved, the
Ma-ter light instantly returns to its pure form and the imperfect
forms are erased as if they had never existed. The form that is imposed
on the Ma-ter light is comparable to the image on a movie screen.
Yet when you remove the film strip from the projector, the image disappears
and the movie screen is blank.
As we also explain, your
spiritual identity is anchored in your I AM Presence, which is permanently
abiding in the spiritual realm. Thus, your imperfect choices will not
in any way affect your I AM Presence. So when your lifestream is dissolved,
your I AM Presence will still be there, and it can chose to send another
individualization of itself into the material universe. However, this
will be a new being with no memory whatsoever of the previous lifestream
that did not become immortal.
This does not mean that every lesson learned by the dissolved lifestream
will be wasted, for all positive lessons will become part of the causal
body that surrounds the I AM Presence, and it remains even when the
lower lifestream is dissolved. Thus, the I AM Presence can draw on this
learning process when designing a new lifestream, which makes it less
likely – but still possible – that any succeeding lifestream
will go to the second death. There are simply no guarantees in the material
world.
I think people who are into a universalist form of Christianity should
be able to accept that the major purpose of the universe is to give
God’s co-creators an opportunity to grow by making choices. In
order for them to learn anything, choices must have consequences, and
if a lifestream consistently chooses death/separation over a long period
of time, that choice must have the ultimate consequence. As I said,
he who seeks to save his life – meaning a sense of identity as
being separated from God – will lose it, whereas he who is willing
to lose his life for my sake – for the sake of coming into oneness
with all life through the mind of Christ – will find eternal life.
Your point, “I just don’t see how a soul could actually
finally choose its own non-existence” is well taken. However,
a lifestream does not choose annihilation in the sense that it does
not truly acknowledge what the choice entails. That is why I said, “Father
forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
The explanation is that the lifestream has become spiritually blind
because it has identified with the ego who can use only the dualistic
logic of the mind of anti-christ. This mind can justify anything,
and it gives rise to spiritual pride. When a being is consumed by such
pride, it believes it could never be wrong and that it knows better
than anyone else, including God. Thus, it truly believes it can get
away with anything and that it can circumvent God’s law or “beat
the system.”
I can assure you that no lifestream has ever gone to the second death
for making “ordinary” mistakes. A lifestream will get to
this point only by being caught in extreme spiritual pride whereby it
thinks it can define its own laws and do whatever it wants with no regard
for how it affects others. It truly believes it is smarter and more
powerful than God.
Before a lifestream faces the second death, we of the Ascended Host
have done everything possible to help it see the flaw in its reasoning.
I personally descended to hell to preach to the lifestreams there. And
when a lifestream faces the final judgment, it is shown the consequences
of its choices with all possible clarity.
Yet because of the nature of the dualistic mind – that can justify
anything – we have limited options for reaching through the veil
of spiritual blindness. You see, when a lifestream is caught in spiritual
pride, it defines its own system of right and wrong, and thus it can
always find an argument that makes it seem like it is right. It will
simply deny that what we are saying and showing is real. It will cling
to what it wants to believe in the face of all evidence to the contrary—much
like some people on Earth cling to certain beliefs even though it causes
their physical death or condemns them to a life of constant suffering.
This is what makes such a being unreachable and unteachable for even
the wisest spiritual teacher. And since we never violate the Law of
Free Will, we must sometimes bow to the law and allow a lifestream to
go to its ultimate annihilation. And while this is always a solemn occasion
for us, we know the choice is not ours to make, so we do not allow ourselves
to feel any attachment to the outcome.
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