Lesson, 72 - Revived '16 - Holding grievances is an attack on Godâ??s plan - a podcast by therapyofthesoul

The HD version of this program and many others, are available for free @: www.OpenandClear.com Have any Questions or Advice? Contact us @: OpenandClear@GMail.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Open-and-Clear-Broadcasting-LLC-188967891463997/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamacim/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PHISHMANPERSON Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/iamacim lesson 72 â??Holding grievances is an attack on Godâ??s plan for salvation.â?? While we have recognized that the egoâ??s plan for salvation is the opposite of Godâ??s, we have not yet emphasized that it is an active attack on His plan, and a deliberate attempt to destroy it. In the attack, God is assigned the attributes which are actually associated with the ego, while the ego appears to take on the attributes of God. The egoâ??s fundamental wish is to replace God. In fact, the ego is the physical embodiment of this wish. For it is this wish which seems to surround the mind with a body, keeping it separate and alone; and unable to reach other minds except through the body which was made to imprison it.The limit on communication cannot be the best means to expand communication.Yet the ego would have you believe that it is. Although the attempt to keep the limitations which a body would impose is obvious here, it is perhaps not so apparent why holding grievances is an attack on Godâ??s plan for salvation. But let us consider the kinds of things which you are apt to hold grievances for. Are they not always associated with something a body does? A person says something we do not like; he does something that displeases us, he â??betraysâ?? his hostile thoughts in his behavior. We are not dealing here with what the person is. On the contrary, we are exclusively concerned with what he does in a body. We are doing more than failing to help in freeing him from itâ??s limitations.We are actively trying to hold him to it by confusing it with him, and judging them as one. Herein is God attacked, for if His Son is only a body,so must He be as well.A creator wholly unlike his creation is inconceivable. If God is a body, what must His plan for salvation be? What could it be but death? In trying to present Himself as the Author of life and not of death, He is a liar and a deceiver, full of false promises and offering illusions in place of truth. The bodyâ??s apparent reality makes this view of God quite convincing. In fact, if the body were real, it would be difficult indeed to escape this conclusion.And every grievance that you hold insists that the body is real. It overlooks entirely what your brother is. It PART I

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