The way the world is now turning out Juditha I have to agree with you. This world should be a Joyous experience but instead Mankind has made it in to a Living Hell. You Can't pick a Newspaper up without reading about People being killed, mugged or being Stolen of all their worldly Goods. Young Children/Babies being Brutally murdered, tortured, Battered to death even from their so called Parents.

The poor People in Africa starve every day, surely that MUST be Hell for them.
I would never ever want to come back to the Earth Plane , Once has been enough for me!

Who is your priest to tell you what kind of picture to paint?

Let your priest paint his/her own picture.

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Juditha:

I suggest you consider what I wrote about ACIM on Don's (Berserk) Chanelling agendas thread. On two occasions I received messages that the course came from an unfriendly misleading being that doesn't have a human origin.  Helen Schuchman, the lady who received the words, didn't take the time to thoroughly discern where the words came from.  She found it troubling to receive the words and wanted to stop doing so, but her cohert, William Thetford, a CIA mind control specialist, would talk her into doing so whenever she considered not doing so.  The voice she heard would force itself upon her. When she wouldn't take notes, she wasn't able to get any sleep.

Regarding the course's claim that the course comes from Christ, consider what Helen Schuchman told William Thetford when he asked her where the words came from. The voice that spoke to her said:

"The name of Jesus Christ is just a symbol. But it stands for love that is not of this World.  It is a symbol that is safely used as a replacement for the many names of all gods to which you pray...This course has come from him because his words have reached you in a language you can love and understand."

I've had experiences with Christ where he wasn't just a symbol. Many people have had near death experiences and other experiences with Christ where he wasn't just a symbol.  Yet, this is what the course tries to establish. The course is like a wolf in sheep's clothing. It tries to present itself as one thing, when it is something else. People won't question it in a serious manner, because they allow themselves to get fooled by its underhanded attempt to deceive.

Consider what it has to say about the suffering in the World:

"With eyes closed, think of the horrors in the world that cross your mind. Name each one as it occurs to you, and then deny its reality. God did not create it, and so it is not real. Say for example:

God did not create that war, and so it is not real.
God did not create that airplane crash, and so it is not real.
God did not create that disaster [specify], and so it is not real. (Lesson 14, pg. 23)"

Consider the suffering that many people including yourself have gone through. A lot of people have read the course for a number of years. Has the suffering people experience in this World puffed out of existence because people made the above assertions? Of course not. The suffering that takes place in this World isn't going to go away by brainwashing ourselves into believing that it doesn't exist. Suffering will go away only after people acknowledge that it does in fact exist and take steps to change things for the better rather than engage themselves in a game of denial.

Non-dual Advaita Vedanta gurus have played the denial game for years. If a person asked such a guru about the suffering in this World, he would reply it's just an illusion so it doesn't matter. "Yet," many people do suffer and will continue to do so for generations, until people stop counting their chickens before they hatch by making meaningless assertions.

It is interesting to note that William Thetford stated that ACIM is like non-dual teachings such as Advaita Vedanta, only it uses Christian terminology and incorporates modern psychology.  Jesus was not a teacher of Vedanta. I believe that Jesus cared dearly for the World while he was here as a person, and continues to do so as a spirit. He wasn't into counting his chickens before they hatched, nor is he inclined to get people to do so, as ACIM does, when it tries to get people to believe that their isn't a World they need to be concerned about.

I would like to offer my thoughts.

  This world was created by God to be a beautiful place for all beings to live upon. It was never intended to be the hellish world that exists for many of us who are suffering so much. Actually the origin of the word hell just means a hole in the ground.

  When humans wanted the knowledge of good and evil, God refused. Whether or not we were tempted to do so is another issue. Anyway you look at it, we have the knowledge now and it has led to this state of affairs that we find humans existing in. Over the years, those humans who have given into the 5 passions of lust, anger, greed, attachment, and vanity have taken control over the lives of good people who just want to live in peace and harmony with each other. They created their own gods to explain why the people were suffering and in the meantime were scamming them.

  I think that the mission Jesus came for was to teach the humans on this planet who worshipped many gods that their is only one God. I feel that he also wanted to get across the message of God existing within each of us as well as outside of us; that we are more than our physical bodies and will live forever if we just accept God's love.

Sincerely,

Recoverer

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The being Jesus Christ is more than a symbol, this is true.  However, his name is a symbol, as are all names.  And this is exactly what is said.  You seem to have misinterpreted/misunderstood this.  I bring this up because I have noticed that you seem to do this a lot with sources which you do not like.  They say something, and you attempt to skew their message to suit your beliefs.  I am not judging you, just bringing to your attention this tendency of yours which I have noticed.  

I also disagree with you for turning the post in this direction again.  Tgecks made a beautiful, truthful, inspiring reply to juditha, and you turn it into something negative.

Here's the quote again. My comments are provided in brackets:

"The name of Jesus Christ is just a symbol [Just a symbol?]. But it ["It?" another negation of the reality of Christ]  stands for love that is not of this World.  It is a symbol [another negation of the reality of Christ] that is safely used as a replacement for the many names of all gods [a multiplicity of Gods rather than the one God Jesus spoke about in the gospels] to which you pray...This course has come from him because his words have reached you in a language you can love and understand [It isn't until the source tries to claim that it comes from Christ that it refers to Christ as "him" rather than symbol. Also, certainly there is more of a reason as to why divine instruction would come from Christ. Also, I don't believe that the language matches the language that Christ would use. Also, if the course comes from Christ, why does the source speak of Christ as if he is something separate from that which is speaking? The course does this often.]."




If we want to see through a misleading source's ways, we have to be willing to read between the lines.