Spiritual Commandments Or Spiritual Guidelines?
By Richard Blackstone
Once you start waking up to your true authentic self you begin to change the concepts that have held you in a bondage of fear. As you awaken to the light of true consciousness, the fears that have enslaved you in your past don't look so fearsome in the light of awareness.
We see things for what they are and we observe whether they serve us or not, given our definition of who we are and who we determine ourselves to be. So when we take on the paradigm that we are one with God and start to challenge the institutions that have held us in fear for so long, we begin to examine the core concepts of all three major institutions and take a closer look at God's commandments.
When we immerse ourselves in the concepts of unity and love we take on the knowledge that God is the source of all that is, and we are created in the image and likeness of God. So we are made of the same stuff as God and have the same talents and abilities. At the core of God is love, and at our core is love.
Our purpose, as spirit children, is to experience in the relative physical world all that God knows conceptually in the absolute world. Because God's true essence is love, then the belief system that God goes by is a love-based belief system. This is what God is. In order to experience God's belief system, we are allowed to know what God's belief system is not. In fact we must know and experience what God's belief system is not in order for us to know experientially exactly what it is.
God sent his belief system to us not only in the core being that we are, but also in a physical form so that man would have a tangible thing to know of that represents God's value system.
We have come to describe this physical representation of these values as “The Ten Commandments.” We have based our core institutions of religion, education and government on them in order to control us under threat of condemnation to hell if we don't follow them.
When we see how all these institutions have followed the values prescribed by these commandments we see the hypocrisy that we have allowed ourselves to live under because of our fears. We see how each of these institutions has lied, cheated and stolen under the sanctimonious guise of doing it for our benefit in order for us to get into heaven. The unholiest of unholies is how each of these institutions has lead us to kill our fellow human beings and say that it was justified in accordance with God's laws and commandments.
The only God they could be talking about is the God of separation and fear, who holds himself out to be a monarch and who is separate from us and separate from the universe he created. Only the God of fear would be separate from the very commandments he sent to us and told us not to violate under threat of condemnation to hell.
The God of Love and unity has a value system that he instilled in us and that has been revealed to us in physical form. But this God would not command us to never violate these values because this God wants us to experience what we are not in order to know what we are. How could we possibly do that if, in so doing, we violate a commandment that she told us not to violate?
The God of Love would not do that. The God of Love would not command us to do anything because the whole premise of our “being” is to create the experiences on earth that we choose using our free will, without restrictions or limitations. The God of Love does not interfere (enter-fear) with our choices. We make the choices. To interfere with our choices would negate the whole premise of God's purpose and violate the process of life.
So, yes, we are privy to God's values, both within our very souls and also within the concept of The Ten Commandments. But instead of using these as God's commandments, we should use them under the concept of God's guidelines. For God, in the form of the soul, is here to guide us in this earthly journey but she is not here to command us to do one thing or another. We are at free choice to be and do one thing or another.
We are at free choice to call this value system “commandments” or “guidelines.” Man, not God, is the one who has told us for 2,000 years that these are commandments, through man's written and spoken words. But what man says or writes doesn't make it so. Remember, everything is temporal and temporary. Everything is a matter of perspective. The only constant in the universe is change.
About the Author: Richard Blackstone is an award winning author and international speaker on Love, Oneness & Creation. Journey into discovery of Self by reading this FREE report; "The 3 Simple Immutable Laws of the Universe" at:
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