From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   Reality is a miracle of Solum Dei Amor.  Meanwhile, I'd personally consider it   
   a miracle if religious nutters would stop cross-spamming in alt.dreams.lucid   
   -- please and thank you.   
      
   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   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)