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ACIM Manual For Teachers How Is Peace Possible in This World?
This is the question everyone must ask. Certainly peace seems to be impossible, here. Yet the Word of God promises other things that seem impossible, as well as this. His Word has
promised peace. It has also promised...
The world you see cannot be the world God loves, and yet His Word assures us that He loves the world. God's Word has promised that peace is possible here, and what He promises can hardly be impossible. But it is true that the world must be looked at differently, if His promises are to be accepted. What the world is, is but a fact. You cannot choose what this should be. But you can choose how you would see it. Indeed, you must choose this.
Again we come to the question of judgment. This time ask yourself whether your judgment or the Word of God is more likely to be true. For they say different things about the world, and things so opposite that it is pointless to try to reconcile them. God offers the world salvation; your judgment would condemn it. God says there is no death; your judgment sees but death as the inevitable end of life. God's Word assures you that He loves the world; your judgment says it is unlovable. Who is right?For one of you is wrong. It must be so.
The text explains that the Holy Spirit is the Answer to all problems you have made. These problems are not real, but that is meaningless to those who believe in them. And everyone believes in what he made, for it was made by his believing it. Into this strange and paradoxical situation, one without meaning and devoid of sense, yet out of which no way seems possible...
Gently His Judgment substitutes for yours. And through this substitution is the ununderstandable made understandable. How is peace possible in this world?
But in the Judgment of God what is reflected here is only peace. |
Vision
is the means by which the Holy Spirit translates your
nightmares into happy dreams; your wild hallucinations
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