| Answer
from Jesus:
The whole truth will be revealed
to the general public when the general public is ready to hear the whole
truth. To fully understand original sin, you must accept the reality
of reincarnation because only then can you realize that God has not
made you responsible for the choices made by Adam and Eve. Your soul
made choices that caused it to become separated from God, and therefore
it is up to you to make the choices that will bring you back to union
with God. No one can do this for you, not God, not the Son of God and
not even the devil—although he claims that he can.
To accept the reality of
this "do-it-yourself" salvation, souls must be willing to
take responsibility for themselves and for their own salvation. This
was the essence of the message that I came to bring to this planet,
namely that you made the choices that created your present situation
and that you can rise above it by making better choices—choices
based on the Christ mind.
Because people have free
will, I cannot tell you when the general public will be ready to take
responsibility for their situation and salvation. If Christianity had
not taken a detour into a fear-based approach to religion, it would
have happened centuries ago. As it is, it could be a while before the
general population is ready to understand the whole truth about original
sin.
You are quite right that many churches have used the concept of original
sin, combined with a fear-based approach to religion, in order to trap
people behind walls of fear. Such walls of fear obviously are not designed
to spread the truth that I came to bring to this planet. They are designed
to promote the power of a particular church organization and the elite
running that organization. As I explained elsewhere,
this was never the intent of the Ascended Host.
You are quite right that judgment is related to the topic of original
sin. However, there are deeper layers of understanding, and I have already
commented on those in the answer to another question.
You are also right that non-judgment is related to unconditional love.
Yet I must caution that unconditional love is not blind. There are many
people today who seem to believe that non-judgment and unconditional
love mean the uncritical acceptance of anything. You can find many of
these people in the New Age movement and you can find many of them in
Christian churches. Such people have created a picture of me as being
a touchy-feely Master who accepted all people uncritically.
If you read the scriptures carefully, you will see that while I extended
great love to some people, I was very direct in challenging the misdeeds
and the erroneous beliefs of others. I was very direct in challenging
the lawyers who had perverted the truth of God and used it to create
an elitist religion that kept people trapped in the bonds of fear. This
does not mean that I did not love these people. It means that I did
not express to such people what most people call love.
In reality, I did express love toward the scribes and the lawyers, but
it was a very tough love that challenged their erroneous beliefs and
compelled them to come up higher. It was a love that would not leave
people trapped in their lower state of consciousness and therefore compelled
me to help them come up higher, even if it meant that they would hate
and attack me for doing so. You see unconditional love means an unconditional
and uncompromising commitment to the growth of every soul, so that no
soul is left behind in the consciousness that causes souls to be trapped
in the illusion that they are separated from their source.
This is a point that many Christians have not understood. You will see
from the Bible that I told people not to judge, yet I also said that
God has given it to the Son to judge and that my judgments are true.
The true meaning behind this is that the knowledge of good and evil,
mentioned in Genesis, refers to a state of consciousness. Throughout
this website I call this state of consciousness for the carnal mind,
and I explain that it is characterized by two polar opposites, namely
relative good and evil. As long as people are caught in this state of
consciousness, their judgments can never be true because they will always
be based on a relative standard, a man-made standard, for what is good
and evil.
Only when you rise above the relativity of the carnal mind and attain
the true perspective of the Christ mind, can you see beyond relative
good and evil. You can then see the truth, meaning that you can see
what is in alignment with the reality of God and what is out of alignment
with that reality. You can then judge the true judgments based on the
Christ mind.
In other words, a Christed being is not a person who unconditionally
agrees with everything that people do, say or believe. A Christed being
is a person who has an uncompromising commitment to help people rise
above their limitations, including the relative beliefs that spring
from the carnal mind. A Christed being has an unconditional love for
the growth of every soul, and therefore the Christed being simply cannot
leave people in a state of ignorance, meaning as state in which they
cannot see the truth of God because they are caught in a relative man-made
“truth.” Therefore, the Christed being is willing to make
himself unpopular with people by challenging their beliefs about what
life and God is like.
The main characteristic of the carnal mind is that it causes people
to build a mental image of themselves, the world and God. This is the
idol, the graven image, spoken of in the Ten Commandments. Most people
have fallen prey to a graven image of God and the truth of God, and
because they worship this man-made image, this carnal image, they are
not even trying to see beyond to the transcendent reality of God. It
is a basic fact of life that when you accept an image or idea as being
“reality,” you no longer question it or seek a higher understanding.
Therefore, the idea - even if true - becomes a trap for your mind, as
I explain elsewhere.
It is the role of a Christed being to challenge these mental images
so that people will realize that there is more to God, more to reality,
than the mental images of their current culture. This is what you saw
me do 2,000 years ago, and you also saw that the people who were not
willing to look beyond their mental images attempted to silence me and
eventually nailed me to a cross.
You are right that many people are going through the process of forgiving
themselves. The basic fact is that you cannot forgive others until you
have forgiven yourself, but you cannot forgive yourself until you have
forgiven God. If there was one lesson I would like people to learn from
the Bible, it is that the history of humankind can be seen as a process
in which people are working out their relationship with God.
As I explained in the answer mentioned above, the original sin was a
sense of separation from God. Ever since then, we of the Ascended Host
have given many religious and spiritual teachings in an attempt to help
people overcome that sense of separation. However, as Mother Mary explains
in her discourse on ingratitude,
people can come closer to God only when they accept God's forgiveness.
However, to accept God's forgiveness, you must first forgive God for
creating you, for giving you free will, for allowing you to make mistakes
and for exposing those mistakes. Everything in your life revolves around
your relationship to God, which is truly your relationship to yourself,
meaning your spiritual self, your spiritual source. You are trying to
work out the relationship between your individualized consciousness,
anchored in your soul, and the source from which that individualized
consciousness sprang, meaning God. The Miracle Gratitude
Rosary is a powerful tool for helping you make peace with God.
It is true, as you say, that my call to forgive everyone is a call for
people to rise above the relative judgments that spring from the carnal
mind. It is also true that few people have understood this fact. You
are one of them, but you are not the only one, and if you will seek,
you will find others. Because you have seen this truth, you do indeed
have the potential to become a messenger of this truth and spread it
to people. You will indeed find help to spread this message, and if
you are willing, you can work with Kim on this in whatever capacity
you desire. He is willing to help you, but there are also others whom
you will find if you open yourself to the direction I am willing to
give you directly in your heart. Simply listen for my direction with
an open mind and heart. I recommend the exercise for inner
attunement for anyone who wants greater inner direction.
You should always let go and let God, but that does not mean to sink
into a passive frame of mind, where you are waiting for some outer source
to manifest the perfect solution. Contemplate my statement that my Father
works hitherto and I work. Contemplate my parable about the talents.
God gives you certain talents, and he does not want you to bury them
in the ground, meaning that he does not want you to wait for some outer
force or outer condition before you act on your talents.
He wants to start with what you have and multiply what you have been
given, and then God will multiply what you bring to the altar. You have
indeed been given this insight, and I can tell you that your soul volunteered
to come into embodiment precisely to spread this message. I recommend
that you study the discourse about the 10,000
people who are ready to manifest Christhood. I also recommended
you study and consider where you might fit into this endeavor. You have
much to offer this planet, and the key is to seek first the kingdom
of Heaven, meaning to seek first the Christ consciousness. Then, all
else shall be added unto you in the form of inner direction that will
help you see how to make the best possible contribution.
I would recommend that anyone who feels they have a mission in life
read The Christ Is Born in You and apply the tools I give in
that book. That book was given as the key to unlocking your soul’s
potential, so that you can fulfill your spiritual mission.
NOTE: After
this answer was given, a very detailed and profound teaching on this
topic was given in Maitreya's
book.
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