From: nick.vaicaitis@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, September 14, 2018 at 4:38:38 AM UTC-5, Miracles Are Seen In Light   
   wrote:   
   > "It is essential that error be not confused with sin, and it is this   
   distinction   
   > that makes salvation possible."   
   > - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 19, Section 2   
   >   
   > "Sin calls for punishment as error for correction, and the belief that   
   punishment   
   > *is* correction is clearly insane."   
   > - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 19, Section 2   
   >   
   >   
   > "The Holy Spirit cannot punish sin. Mistakes he recognizes, and would   
   correct them   
   > all as God entrusted him to do. But sin he knows not, nor can he recognize   
   > mistakes that cannot be corrected. For a mistake that cannot be corrected is   
   > meaningless to him. Mistakes are *for* correction, and they call for nothing   
   else.   
   >   What calls for punishment must call for nothing. Every mistake *must* be a   
   call   
   > for love. What, then, is sin? What could it be but a mistake you would keep   
   > hidden; a call for help that you would keep unheard and thus unanswered?"   
   > - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 19, Section 3   
   >   
   > "When you are tempted to believe that sin is real, remember this: If sin is   
   real,   
   > both God and you are not. If creation is extension, the Creator must have   
   extended   
   > himself, and it is impossible that what is part of him is totally unlike the   
   rest.   
   > If sin is real, God must be at war with himself. He must be split, and torn   
   > between good and evil; partly sane and partially insane. For he must have   
   created   
   > what wills to destroy him, and has the power to do so.  Is it not easier to   
   > believe that you have been mistaken than to believe in this?"   
   > - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 19, Section 3   
   >   
   >   
   > "If sin is real, it must forever be beyond the hope of healing. For there   
   would be   
   > a power beyond God's, capable of making another will that could attack his   
   will   
   > and overcome it; and give his Son a will apart from his, and stronger. And   
   each   
   > part of God's fragmented creation would have a different will, opposed to   
   his, and   
   > in eternal opposition to him and to each other."   
   > - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 19, Section 3   
   >   
   >   
   > "Freedom is the only gift you can offer to God's Sons, being an   
   acknowledgment of   
   > what they are and what he is. Freedom is creation, because it is love."   
   > - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 8, Section 4   
   >   
   > Freedom is riches.  Prohibition and oppression are impoverishment.   
   >   
   >   
   > "Whenever you become angry with a brother, for whatever reason, you are   
   believing   
   > that the ego is to be saved, and to be saved by attack. If he attacks, you   
   are   
   > agreeing with this belief; and if you attack, you are reinforcing it.   
   > *Remember that those who attack are poor*. Their poverty asks for gifts, not   
   for   
   > further impoverishment. You who could help them are surely acting   
   destructively if   
   > you accept their poverty as yours. If you had not invested as they had, it   
   would   
   > never occur to you to overlook their need."   
   > - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 12, Section 3   
      
   This used to drive me crazy, the distinction here. I think sin is of the   
   spirit while error is of the body. 3rd chakra can make errors, which tend to   
   be funny. 6th chakra can "sin" which is also funny because spirit is always   
   itself pure.   
      
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