Re: The First in Eternity is God the Father

On 9/18/2024 1:12 PM, Miracles Are Seen In Light wrote:
> On 9/17/2024 11:40 PM, Miracles Are Seen In Light wrote:
>>> "The first in time means nothing, but the First in eternity is God the
>>> Father, Who is both First and One.  Beyond the First there is no other,
>>> for there is no order, no second or third, and nothing but the First."
>>>
>>> "You who belong to the First Cause, created by him like unto himself and
>>> part of him, are more than merely guiltless.  The state of guiltlessness
>>> is only the condition in which what is not there has been removed from
>>> the disordered mind that thought it was.  This state, and only this,
>>> must you attain, with God beside you.  For until you do, you will still
>>> think that you are separate from him."
>>>
>>> "When you have let all that obscured the truth in your most holy mind be
>>> undone for you, and therefore stand in grace before your Father, he will
>>> give himself to you as he has always done.  Giving himself is all he
>>> knows, and so it is all knowledge.  For what he knows not cannot be, and
>>> therefore cannot be given.  Ask not to be forgiven, for this has already
>>> been accomplished.  Ask, rather, to learn how to forgive, and to restore
>>> what always was to your unforgiving mind.  Atonement becomes real and
>>> visible to those who use it.  On earth this is your only function, and
>>> you must learn that it is all you want to learn."
>>>
>>> "You need not understand creation to do what must be done before that
>>> knowledge would be meaningful to you.  God breaks no barriers; neither
>>> did he make them.  When you release them they are gone.  God will not
>>> fail, nor ever has in anything.  Decide that God is right and you are
>>> wrong about yourself.  He created you out of himself, but still within
>>> him.  He knows what you are.  Remember that there is no second to him.
>>> There cannot, therefore, be anyone without his holiness, nor anyone
>>> unworthy of his perfect love.  Fail not in your function of loving in a
>>> loveless place made out of darkness and deceit, for thus are darkness
>>> and deceit undone.  Fail not yourself, but instead offer to God and you
>>> his blameless Son.  For this small gift of appreciation for his love,
>>> God will himself exchange your gift for his."
>>>
>>>
>>> "Before you make any decisions for yourself, remember that you have
>>> decided against your function in Heaven, and then consider carefully
>>> whether you want to make decisions here.  Your function here is only to
>>> decide against deciding what you want, in recognition that you do not
>>> know.  How, then, can you decide what you should do?  Leave all
>>> decisions to the One Who speaks for God, and for your function as he
>>> knows it.  So will he teach you to remove the awful burden you have laid
>>> upon yourself by loving not the Son of God, and trying to teach him
>>> guilt instead of love.  Give up this frantic and insane attempt that
>>> cheats you of the joy of living with your God and Father, and of waking
>>> gladly to his love and holiness that join together as the truth in you,
>>> making you one with him."
>>>
>>> "Unless you are guiltless you cannot know God, Whose Will is that you
>>> know him.  Therefore, you *must* be guiltless.  Yet if you do not accept
>>> the necessary conditions for knowing him, you have denied him and do not
>>> recognize him, though he is all around you.  He cannot be known without
>>> his Son, whose guiltlessness is the condition for knowing him. Accepting
>>> his Son as guilty is denial of the Father so complete, that knowledge is
>>> swept away from recognition in the very mind where God himself has
>>> placed it.  If you would but listen, and learn how impossible this is!
>>> Do not endow him with attributes you understand.  You made him not, and
>>> anything you understand is not of him."
> 
> 
> 
> "Love is not learned.  Its meaning lies within itself.  And learning 
> ends when you have recognized all it is not.  That is the interference; 
> that is what needs to be undone.  Love is not learned, because there 
> never was a time in which you knew it not.  Learning is useless in the 
> Presence of your Creator, Whose acknowledgment of you and yours of him 
> so far transcend all learning that everything you learned is 
> meaningless, replaced forever by the knowledge of love and its one 
> meaning."
> 
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 18, Section 9
> "The Passing of the Dream," "The Two Worlds"
> 
> 
> 
>>> "Your task is not to make reality.  It is here without your making, but
>>> not without you. You who have tried to throw yourself away and valued
>>> God so little, hear me speak for him and for yourself.  You cannot
>>> understand how much your Father loves you, for there is no parallel in
>>> your experience of the world to help you understand it.  There is
>>> nothing on earth with which it can compare, and nothing you have ever
>>> felt apart from him resembles it ever so faintly.  Would you know of One
>>> Who gives forever, and Who knows of nothing except giving?"
>>>
>>> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 14, Section 4 (5pdf)
>>> "Teaching for Truth," "Your Function in the Atonement"
>>> https://tinyurl.com/A-Course-In-Miracles-pdf

As I don't understand what you're trying to say, I doubt if you do, either.

Please explain in layman's terms.
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