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NOTE: This
answer was given on December 13, 2006, after the NEW
DIRECTION was implemented.
Answer from Jesus:
Let me first comment on the
idea that God’s forgiveness is free. Where did this idea come
from? Well, it started when the newly formed Catholic Church –
in the Nicene Creed – elevated me to the status of “the
only begotten Son of God, and born of the Father before all ages. (God
of God) light of light, true God of true God. Begotten not made, consubstantial
to the Father, by whom all things were made.”
By elevating me above all other human beings, the Church destroyed me
as an example, thereby aborting – as I explain throughout this
website – the real purpose for my life and mission. I came to
awaken all people to their potential to put on the mind of Christ and
do the works that I did. Yet the Catholic Church completed the work
begun by earlier church fathers of putting me beyond the reach of other
people.
So if I could not serve as an example, why would people become Christians?
Well, they would only do so if I could do something for them, and the
church made this plausible by turning me into some all-powerful God
who could do all the work for people and save them. The outcome was
the concept that my blood on the cross provided the ultimate sacrifice
that paid for all of humankind’s sins, past, present and future.
As I explain elsewhere,
this is a completely false idea.
Even though the Catholic Church committed a grave error – and
truly committed blasphemy – by elevating me to the same status
as God, it still maintained that salvation is won through both good
works and grace. So even though the Church denies karma, there was at
least an opening to the concept that your behavior has an impact on
your salvation.
Yet when Martin Luther decided to correct some of the errors committed
by the Catholic Church, he actually built on to those errors because
while he took out some things added by the Catholic Church, he did not
put back in what the Church had taken out of my original teachings—which
did contain the concepts of karma
and reincarnation. In his eagerness to remove what he saw as an
overemphasis on good works, Luther’s only option was to reason
that salvation is determined exclusively by grace and that you can do
nothing to work out your own salvation.
Yet this also led to the convoluted idea that since you can’t
do anything to earn grace, you really don’t have to do anything
to earn it. Which is why many modern Christians have been brought up
to believe that salvation is guaranteed when they declare me to be their
Lord and Savior or are baptized into a Christian – preferably
Lutheran – church.
In reality, grace is not free and thus there is no contradiction between
grace/forgiveness and karma. The key insight that will resolve the enigma
is that the material universe is a schoolroom in which you are meant
to learn certain lessons that raise your awareness and self-awareness.
You are meant to become a co-creator with God who has dominion over
the Earth, meaning that you can act in such a way that you do not make
negative karma.
In order to build this mastery, you must experiment with your creative
abilities, which includes free will. You have been given free will to
do whatever you want with God’s energy, and you are constantly
receiving light from your I
AM Presence. Yet you are also responsible for what you do with that
light, so if you use it for selfish purposes or to harm others, you
make negative karma. You must pay back all karma before you can attain
mastery and graduate from the schoolroom of Earth.
Most people have had many lifetimes on this planet, and they have made
a substantial amount of karma. A particular type of karma was made as
a result of the person’s conscious
self identifying with a certain state of consciousness. The main
lesson you need to learn on Earth is how to rise above the duality
consciousness of the ego and put on the mind of Christ, in which
you never violate God’s law. When you attain Christhood, you can
live and act on Earth without making negative karma.
The consequence is that in order to attain Christhood, you have to separate
yourself from any state of consciousness built on duality and separation
from God. Once you have risen above a certain type of consciousness,
God has no desire to see you tied to that consciousness by having to
deal with the karma made through that state of mind. Thus, God’s
forgiveness and grace can relieve you of the remaining karma.
My point is that karma – what most Christians call sin –
is not God’s punishment but is actually a teacher. It is meant
to teach you that if you misuse the light of God, you reap what you
have sown. When you sow the wind, you will reap the whirlwind. When
you have risen above the state of consciousness that caused you to make
a certain type of karma, you have learned your lesson, so what is the
point of still having to deal with the karma? If you have truly forsaken
the dualistic state of consciousness, you will learn nothing further
from suffering the effects of karma, and that is why grace can take
it away.
Contrary to what many people believe, God has no desire to punish you,
no matter what sins you have committed. God simply wants you to return
to his kingdom, for it is his good pleasure to give it to you. Yet before
you can find the kingdom within you, you must rise above the consciousness
of duality that causes you to see yourself as separated from what is
already inside of you.
My point is that forgiveness or grace is not free. Regardless of what
most Christians have been brought up to believe by the blind leaders
of mainstream Christian churches, you will NOT receive God’s forgiveness
of a certain type of sin until you have completely forsaken the consciousness
that causes the sin. It is a complete illusion that I will indiscriminately
pay back humankind’s sin. I am eternally committed to the law
of God, and thus I will not take away someone’s sin or karma until
that person has truly been spiritually reborn and thus will not repeat
the actions that caused him or her to sin in the first place. How can
you teach a person financial responsibility by paying off his debts
without requiring a change in consciousness?
So you have to earn God’s forgiveness by doing what I told all
Christians to do, namely remove the beam from their own eyes. Believing
that they can ignore this commandment because I will indiscriminately
pay back their sins is the worst form of hypocrisy I can imagine—at
least for those who claim to be followers of Christ. Paying me lip-service
without a true change of heart will bring no one closer to heaven.
Do people really think that what they hide in their hearts and subconscious
minds is hidden from me? Do people think they can fool me by adopting
the outer behavior of “good Christians” without truly changing
their state of consciousness?
When will Christians wake up from this mass delusion? When will they
pull the beam from their own eyes, so they can actually receive my grace?
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