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   From: Miracles_Are_Seen_In_Light@Miracles.com   
      
   "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)