Does
God want people to kill abortion doctors?
Kim: Jesus, today
a former Presbyritarian minister, Paul Hill, is scheduled to be executed
for killing an abortion doctor and his escort. In an interview, he
said, “The sooner I am executed ... the sooner I am going to
heaven, I expect a great reward in heaven. I am looking forward to
glory. I don’t feel remorse.”
I would like to hear your comments on this.
Thank you for bringing up
this topic. Let me begin by making it absolutely clear that this person’s
reasoning is fundamentally flawed and completely out of touch with God's
will. As I stated in my comments on the war with
Iraq, there is absolutely no cause, and I truly mean no cause, which
in the eyes of God justifies the killing of a human being.
The essence of this matter is that God himself made the choice to give
human beings free will. God defined this in a divine law, which I refer
to as the Law of Free Will. As I have stated elsewhere on this website,
the law of free will does not stand alone. It was created in a polarity
with the Law of Cause and Effect. So the essence of life is that human
beings have to learn by making choices and reaping the consequences
of those choices. God allows people to commit acts that violate his
laws, because he knows that people will eventually reap the consequences
and thereby have an opportunity to learn.
What I am trying to explain is that the essence of life on Earth is
that people have been given an opportunity to learn by making choices.
God allows people to make choices that violate his laws. Therefore,
killing someone in an attempt to prevent them from violating God’s
law is in itself a violation of God’s intent and the Law of Free
Will. In other words, the belief that the end can justify the means
or the saying, “Let us do evil that good may come,” never
originated with God or with the Ascended Host.
The idea that it is acceptable to violate someone's free will in order
to prevent them from committing evil originated with the forces who
temporarily oppose God’s purpose for creation. These beings attempt
to force people to be saved, whereas God wants people to be saved through
their own choices. In other words, if you truly understand God’s
purpose and respect God’s law, you clearly see that it is not
justified to kill a human being, even if it seemingly prevents a greater
evil. (Let me say that this needs to be understood in the context of
self-defense, as discussed in the remarks about the Iraq war.)
The reason it is wrong to kill a human being is that it takes away the
soul’s opportunity to learn and thereby work out its salvation.
Because the opportunity to learn is the very purpose of life on Earth,
there is no greater violation of God’s laws than destroying this
opportunity. Killing is not the only way to destroy a soul’s opportunity
for growth, but it is certainly one way.
So, you are saying that God will not reward this man for his
actions?
Correct. One of the fundamental
lessons that people should learn from the Bible (or any other religious
scripture) is that “God is no respecter of persons.” In
other words, God’s law is not influenced by human opinions. Regardless
of what this person, or humanity as a whole, believes, God is not mocked
and his law will not change one iota.
This man has violated God’s law by killing another human being,
and he will inevitably reap the consequences.
So you are saying that he will not go to heaven as he thinks?
Correct. According to the
Law of Cause and Effect, he will have to pay back his debt to life.
Therefore, he will have to come back into embodiment and compensate
the people he killed by helping them make up for the opportunity that
he aborted by killing them. In that respect, see my other comments on
reincarnation.
So what will happen to this soul after the death of his physical
body?
Contrary to popular Christian
belief, there is no instant salvation or eternal damnation after death.
Instead, there is a continued opportunity for the soul to learn and
grow.
If people are interested in more detailed descriptions of what happens
to souls after death, they should study some of the many near-death
experiences that are readily available.
I would like to make it clear that these near-death experiences are
part of God’s plan for expanding people’s understanding
of life. These experiences are also an attempt to help people overcome
their fear of death.
The essence of the many near-death experiences is that when the physical
body dies, the soul separates itself from the body and moves into another
realm. As explained throughout this website, the scientific fact that
everything is made of energy opens the possibility that there could
be many realms, many levels of vibration, beyond the material universe.
In fact, there are a number of realms, octaves or stations to which
souls can be taken after death. What determines where a soul will go
is the soul’s state of consciousness before death.
In the case of Paul Hill, we have a soul who has clearly violated one
of the fundamental laws of God. At the same time, this soul obviously
feels no remorse for its actions. Again, contrary to popular Christian
belief, God has no desire to punish human beings. The purpose of life
is the growth of the soul. So when a soul leaves the physical body behind,
it will be taken to a station where that particular soul will be presented
with the best possible opportunity to learn. The soul must learn the
lessons it needed to learn in its last lifetime and therefore, hopefully,
make choices that will allow the soul to move on in its growth process.
What I am saying is that the purpose of anything that happens after
death is to educate the soul. Punishment simply isn't part of the picture,
contrary to what so many human beings want to believe. Once again, God’s
law is not altered by human opinions.
Each soul has a number of spiritual teachers assigned to it. The role
of these teachers is to help the soul grow and move to a higher level.
In this particular case, the teachers of Paul Hill’s soul are
faced with a difficult situation. This soul is absolutely convinced
that it has committed an act of martyrdom and that it will be rewarded
in heaven. As I have stated, this is an illusion. Therefore, the soul
cannot move on until it lets go of this illusion, and this must happen
through the free-will choosing of the soul.
The problem in cases like this is how to make a soul realize that it
has violated God’s law without at the same time shattering the
soul’s sense of self-worth and plunging that soul into a state
of guilt, hopelessness and despair. This can be a very delicate balance
that presents difficult challenges for a soul’s spiritual teachers.
(In that respect, let me say that this dilemma also applies to souls
who have performed or chosen to have abortions. For example, the soul
of an abortion doctor faces a very difficult situation of having to
come to terms with the fact that it aborted the opportunity for thousands
of souls.)
One of the tools that is commonly employed in an attempt to make a soul
see its wrongdoings is what some near-death experiences describe as
a life review. Some souls simply view this in a detached manner, as
if the events are happening on a movie screen. Other souls view this
in a more involved manner in which they experience every situation.
However, instead of experiencing the situation from their own perspective,
they now experience the situation from the perspective of the people
they harmed. During such a review, people experience firsthand how people
they harmed felt in that situation. For some souls this can be an efficient
way to awaken them to the true consequences of their actions.
In some cases, this rude awakening can be too much for the soul, and
it causes the soul to withdraw into a state of shock from which it can
take a long time to recover. Therefore, contrary to what some people
believe, there is no standard way that the soul is treated after death.
This is an individual matter that is decided on a case-by-case basis
by the spiritual teachers of particular souls.
In this particular case, the soul will indeed go through the life review
of experiencing this situation from the receiving end of its actions.
Hopefully, this will achieve the result of helping this soul see the
wrong of its actions without destroying the sense of self-worth. However,
because the outcome of this procedure is ultimately up to the free will
of the soul, even I cannot predict the outcome.
Paul Hill stated that "More people should act as I have
acted." What would you say to people who might be influenced
by this statement or by his example?
I would ask them what they
think about the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.
I am sure that most of these people would denounce the attacks.
Then I would ask them to consider that the people who performed these
attacks believed they were fighting for a just cause and that they would
be rewarded in heaven for their actions.
In other words, the mindset of the terrorists is exactly the same as
the mindset of Paul Hill and all other extremists, regardless of what
cause they are fighting for. The only difference is that whereas the
911 terrorists invoked Allah, Paul Hill used me to justify his actions.
The simple fact is that Allah does not support extremism and fanaticism
any more than I and my Father in heaven. I can say this for a fact,
because the God who inspired Islam is the same God who inspired Judaism,
Christianity and every other true religion found on planet Earth.
As I said 2,000 years ago, there is a way that seems right unto a man
but the end thereof is the way of death. The way that seems right unto
a man is the way of extremism, which quickly leads to fanaticism. Extremism
is always based on the duality and relativity of the lower mind. The
true way is the middle way whereby a person reaches for the higher perspective,
the balanced perspective, of the Christ mind.
There is a fundamental and fundamentally important difference between
religious fervor or zeal and extremism or fanaticism. I admit that it
can sometimes be difficult for a deeply religious person to avoid extremism.
However, extremism is always caused by an imbalance in the soul, and
before the soul can truly come home to God, it must resolve all such
imbalances. This can more easily be done when the soul recognizes the
dangers of extremism and embraces the middle way that leads to Christ
consciousness.
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