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273. God did not create death

Tuesday, Sep 30, 2025 672 words 2 mins 59 secs

Have you considered, that someone dying is an insane notion?

Imagine that you are born, you grow up, you have a life, you love people, and then someone comes along and says. ... sorry, your entire existence has to...

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272. Why I can't accept that God created the Earth

Thursday, Sep 25, 2025 1281 words 5 mins 41 secs

Each to their own. But for me, I cannot reconcile how God can be purely benevolent, peaceful, loving, gentle, kind, happy, soft, life-affirming, life-giving, joyful, etc. ... and in ANY WAY, even CONCEIVE OF .... a thought, idea, creation...

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271. God is a holographic system, not a non-duality blob

Thursday, Aug 28, 2025 1009 words 4 mins 29 secs

ACIM is not really non-duality, or duality. It's sort of both. ACIM makes this clear statement about the nature of God and reality:

"The recognition of the part as whole, and of the whole in every part, is PERFECTLY...

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270. Trust the Holy Spirit with your life!

Tuesday, Aug 12, 2025 1312 words 5 mins 49 secs

Would you trust life or death decisions to the Holy Spirit? And if not, why not?

We are ego-identified idiots here. We don't know what we're doing, what's right, what's in anyone's best interests, or how to judge anything....

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269. There could be a kind of space and time in reality

Sunday, Aug 10, 2025 1431 words 6 mins 21 secs1 comments

After some recent insights, I have a theory... that God's Kingdom actually has locality and non-locality, meaning there is a kind of timeless time, and spaceless space. Whereas 'spacetime' is the idea of locality only.

God's whole system runs...

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268. Can God's laws be broken?

Wednesday, Jun 18, 2025 1074 words 4 mins 46 secs1 comments

"There is another Maker of the world, the simultaneous Corrector of the mad belief that ANYTHING could be established and maintained without some link that kept it still within the Laws of God."

God is the law. His nature...

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267. I am under no laws but God's

Tuesday, Apr 22, 2025 1002 words 4 mins 27 secs

The ego aligns with the physical world, and is completely backwards. It operates on the basis of how the physical works.

It says, if I give you something, I must lose it. We can't both have it. We could...

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266. The fear of God induces suffering and death

Sunday, Feb 09, 2025 1320 words 5 mins 51 secs

"All forms of sickness, even unto death, are physical expressions of the FEAR OF AWAKENING. They are attempts to reinforce UNCONSCIOUSNESS out of fear of CONSCIOUSNESS."

The entire problem of the people of the world is that we're very...

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265. Are you free to avoid God forever?

Saturday, Feb 08, 2025 1393 words 6 mins 11 secs

"It is NEVER God Who coerces you, because He SHARES His Will WITH you." God has given you freedom. This cannot be revoked. You are free to create, or to mis-create. God cannot oppose your will because it is...

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264. The answer that solves all problems and questions

Thursday, Dec 26, 2024 842 words 3 mins 44 secs

You can’t solve a problem by staying within the SYSTEM or level in which the problem seems to exist.

In ego terms, in intellectual terms, we’ll have a great many questions. We do not recognize what these questions are...

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263. You are host to God or hostage to the ego

Monday, Dec 09, 2024 1476 words 6 mins 33 secs

Anything to do with the body, and what's inside the body, is thought to be "mine only", and not yours. We describe ourselves in terms of what is exclusive to ourselves. As if to say, I have my own this,...

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262. Reclaim your inheritance and be happy

Monday, Dec 02, 2024 730 words 3 mins 14 secs

1) Recognize that you are not happy.

2) Recognize that happiness IS God, is part of his nature, and there is no happiness other than God's happiness.

3) Recognize that you are not happy because you believe you are...

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261. The only way to be happy is to include God

Sunday, Dec 01, 2024 1035 words 4 mins 36 secs

Right now, living in a human body with an ego, your experience is that you are separate from God. As if you are somehow outside of God. As if you are living in exile in some kind of separate...

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260. God cannot create a world like this

Sunday, Oct 20, 2024 1513 words 6 mins 43 secs1 comments

Jesus clearly refers to the physical body dying. He remarks about how the physical worms eat the physical body. Which is indeed true. Go dig up a freshly buried corpse and look at the worms. Just as the body...

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259. All you need is God

Monday, Oct 07, 2024 1582 words 7 mins 1 secs

There really is only one problem in all the universe, and it's the sense of God's absence. The separation from God. Fix this one problem and everything is perfect.

"Separation from God is the only lack he really needs...

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258. You share the power of God to work miracles

Monday, Sep 23, 2024 1403 words 6 mins 14 secs

Did you know God is very, very, very powerful?

Did you know that you inherited that power and are also very powerful? God is the source of all power, and is all-powerful, but he also shares his power with...

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257. The idea of the death of God

Friday, Jul 19, 2024 1101 words 4 mins 53 secs

The idea of death was made as the opposite of the idea of God. The separation from God was total opposition to God's nature. It's an assertion that God does not exist, blotted out and dead.

Whatever attributes God has,...

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256. Are you God?

Friday, Jun 07, 2024 704 words 3 mins 7 secs

"And thus they see in you their holiness, saluting you as savior and as God."

Sometimes we like to think that we are God. But then we start to feel that this tempts the ego and is arrogant and wrong....

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255. God does know you are sleeping and is helping you

Saturday, Feb 17, 2024 711 words 3 mins 9 secs

God is aware that we are sleeping because he is also aware that we are not properly communicating with him. That's why he created the Holy Spirit. He couldn't and wouldn't have created the Holy Spirit without KNOWING that...

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254. The detour into fear and the fear of God

Tuesday, Dec 26, 2023 1292 words 5 mins 44 secs

"Here is the fear of God most plainly seen. For love is treacherous to those who fear, since fear and hate can NEVER be apart. No-one who hates but is afraid of love, and therefore MUST he be afraid of...

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