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Stephen
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This is not at all true.? There are
many?more statements in ACIM that affirm God as Creator of the
world/Universe than statements that speak of the ego's illusionary world.?
Why people still ignore this simple fact I just don't know.? And Lesson 184
is surely irrefutable in its claim that God is the Creator of the
world/Universe; particularly in this passage:? "W-184.8. Think not you made the world. 2
Illusions, yes! 3 But what is true in earth and Heaven is beyond your
naming."? And there is this from Lesson 263:
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"W-263.1. "
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Note "would I look upon what *you created* as if it
could bemade sinful...".? The only logical conclusion the evidence ACIM
provides is the obvious one - the Universe/world is God's Creation that we are
misperceiving.
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And there is this from
Lesson 265 (Creation's gentleness is all I see.):? W-265.1. I have indeed misunderstood
the world, because I laid my sins on it and saw them looking back at me. 2 How
fierce they seemed! 3 And how deceived was I to think that what I feared was in
the world, instead of in my mind alone. 4 Today I see the world in the celestial
gentleness with which creation shines.
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Outside of ACIM
there?are all the testimonies from near-death experience survivors that
strongly affirm the Universe/World as being God's creation to consider.?
And then there are actual accounts of Illumination to take into account such as
this one: ?
"Finally I turned my eyes to the
pine-covered hills behind the monastery and still, there was no division, only
something "there" that was flowing with and through every vista and particular
object of vision.? To see the Oneness of everything is like having special
3D glasses put before your eyes; I thought to myself: for sure, this is what
they mean when they say "God is everywhere." (Bernadette
Roberts)
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Then there are centuries of literature
provided by mystics of all faiths throughout history concisely detailed on sites
like this:
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No, Jim, this idea about Creation being
*nothing but* an ego illusion that has been most?strongly propagated by Ken
Wapnick and FACIM is quite simply wrong.? There's just no doubt about it at
all.? The evidence that can be amassed against it (and *for* the counter
view) from?ACIM itself as well as many other important and related sources
is?of mammoth proportions.
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Stephen |
