Monday, December 29, 2008

Condemnation

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of Life set me free from the law of sin and death......Those who live according to the sinful nature(carnally minded)have their minds set on what that nature desires(death); but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires....For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. --Romans 8

I believe the writer of these verses is not referring to a personality. As it is impossible for us to be in another man, and as it is necessary that each live his own life, within the One Life of God, it follows that the writer is describing Universal Principle.

We are in Christ when we are in the Truth; we are in the Truth when we live in harmony with it; there is no mystery about this. The law of the Spirit makes us free from sin and death: the law of the Spirit is freedom and knows no bondage. When we enter the Spirit of God we come under Its law of freedom.

Sin means mistake, or missing the mark. We miss the mark when we do not live under the law of harmony, which is Truth. Death is no part of eternal life, which can know no death, so it follows that God knows nothing about death. We die from one Reality to another but always remaining in the One Life of God.

"To be spiritually minded is life and peace." Who does not long for life and peace? These things are made perfect in the Life and Mind of God or as Jesus referred to it as the "Kingdom of Heaven."

The carnal mind leads to death, which in Truth is an illusion seen through the human eye and our experience. The carnal mind leads us to believe that death is real, we live a life of duality, believing that we exist separate from God, the One and only Life. This is the Truth Jesus spoke when he said, "I am in the Father and the Father is in me." The carnal mind becomes so identified with the human experience that it leads us to an erroneous belief in self(ego/human pride), fear and doubt, limitation and lack(poverty), condemnation and a sense of isolation and separation from God. As we identify more with self and human suffering we become more isolated from our true Reality which is we exist in the Life of God and no where else. Everything else is an illusion.

If it is true that God is creator of everything, the essence of God's Spirit being in each of us, why would God condemn Itself?

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