False Worship
by
Sylvia Browne
 "In
the name of God", down through the
centuries, we have done many disturbing
things: We've shaved our heads, gone into
monasteries, become celibate, flogged
ourselves, slept on nails, and gone after the
Holy Grail, which does not exist. In doing all
this, we have stated that it was in the name
of God.
Soon
after Jesus' coming, we fought
"holy" wars. Now there is an
oxymoron! There is nothing holy about a war!
We still have such iniquity in the world.
"In the name of God" we have created
more atrocities than any one person or group
could ever think up. In truth, all of it has
been in the name of idolatry, not God.
The
Commandments say, "You shall have no
other Gods before Me." I believe in that
particular Commandment -- some of the others
can be challenged, but that one is valid. It
means that you should not worship the wrong
god -- namely, a fearsome god. Please ask
yourself, why are we worshiping a god of fear?
Of vengeance? Where is the God of love, the
One who lovingly put us here? Which god is the
God?
Stop
and think logically! What sadistic god, what
monster, what horribly Satanistic type of god
would put people on Earth only to suffer in
life, then end up in hellfire and damnation,
to lose people we love, to be with hurt
children and homeless or crippled people? Do
you think it is simply a toss of the dice? Or
do you think that if you're not nice, your
child or spouse will be taken away from you?
Is all this suffering at the whim of a petty,
jealous god? I don't think so!
The
true God of Love allows us to go through
school -- that is, through the hard knocks of
this life -- because it makes us better
people. God said, "If you want to perfect
your soul for Me, if you want to be My emotion
and experience, you have free will and the
choice to go into life and endure it for
Me." And we said, "I love You so
much because You are Love. If You need me to
experience for You, I am going to go down and
do a good job. I am going to learn and bring
information back to You."
Then
we got down into life and the world began to
fill our heads full of all kinds of erroneous
stuff. Not the simplistic stuff such as
"God is Love", because that does not
make for big business. And we bought it,
didn't we! Maybe some of you did not buy it,
but said, "What kind of God is that? I'm
so afraid of Him! Am I supposed to love Him or
fear Him?" You cannot do both! Two
opposite emotions cannot reside together. You
must either love or fear. Which is it?
We
must choose to love God. It must be! The love
of God is why I am doing all of this. I do not
want to say, "Look at the pain You put me
through, God!" Not at all. I did it to
myself, but most people do not like that. We
do not like to be responsible for our
situations. We want to blame someone else,
even God, for our misfortune. Yet on the Other
Side, we were so happy when we did it.
"God, I picked a tough one this
time." Or an easy one, or some of each.
"But hopefully, dear Father, I won't
gripe about it every single step of the way,
because when I get into human form, I get
stupid and forget." We all do. We have
our memory of the Other Side shut off, because
if we had that memory, it would be easy. Then
there is no test for the soul.
So
we came down the chute merrily into life. Then
we got here and said, "Oh, damn! This is
awful! I may have picked this course of study,
but now I don't want to do it." Tough!
You picked it and must fulfill it, but you
could do it with a smile, because you are
really perfecting for yourself and elevating
your soul to God. Sure it hurts! It's like a
bad pair of shoes that you have to go walking
in. It hurts for that time. But after you take
off the shoes, you only remember how
bad your feet hurt -- memory is a far-off
thing. That's the way it is when we get to the
Other Side. It all becomes a vague memory. Ask
any woman to stand up and recreate childbirth
pain. They cannot. If we did, we would never
have a second child. No way! The memory of
pain fades. Physical pain, as well as mental
pain, goes away fast.
Sometimes
I look back on the hard times I have gone
through, and it's all just a vague memory. I
can look back and pretty much understand that
Sylvia was suffering. But it's past; it almost
seems to be another lifetime. You can do the
same thing. You can stand proud and say,
"But they didn't kill me. I am
strong." Remember, they cannot eat you!
The
tougher the stuff you picked, the more you
wanted to gain in prestige, honor, and
spirituality. That is what we wanted -- to get
the gold ring. There is nothing wrong with
that kind of pride and love. There is no false
ego involved when we say, "God, look at
me. Aren't you proud of me?" Absolutely.
The same as you are with a child. You are
proud of that child. Now imagine God's love
for you magnified billions and billions of
times. That is the God that we worship. That
is the God that we love.
Interpreting
Dogma
For
centuries, our wonderfully loving God was made
into a false god of vengeance, pettiness, and
humanistic qualities. If pure love and pure
intelligence exist, there can be no avarice or
greed; such an entity cannot play favorites,
have vengeance, or make a devil. Because if
God makes a devil, that means He had to have
evil within. Be reasonable. You cannot make
what you do not know.
So
the early religions inverted the true God of
Love. They made a vengeful and mean god and a
devil to scare everyone into obedience. The
early religions made people fear god and
convinced them they were sinners.
To
be a true Christian, follow Jesus' teachings.
We do not need to focus on his death in order
to appreciate his greatness! The terrible
horror he went through on the cross is not
needed to validate his teachings. If you do
nothing more in this world, please approach
your religious and spiritual beliefs with
knowledge. Do not ever approach anything with
blind faith. That is one of the most awful
concepts around. And never approach things
with guilt.
It
is so simple -- God is Love! You came here to
fulfill your contract, which you will do
whether you like it or not. It is nicer if you
do not gripe about it, but if you do, so what?
All of us will face hardship and tragedy. I
know I have, and so will all of you. But
regardless, we are all going to graduate
eventually.
Time
condenses and seems to be going faster these
days. Have you noticed that? Francine says
that time is speeding up, because we are
getting to the end of things. And please
forget about the "rapture" because
Jesus does not want to come down here anymore.
Would you? No. Francine says that we are in
the "time of the Messiah." When she
first told me that, I could not understand
what she meant. She said, "The Messiah is
coming again, but in the form of True Thought.
Jesus will be resurrected to what he really
was in the beginning." That is the
rapture! He is not going to appear in the sky
with a sword. Why would he appear with a
sword? He was the most kind, loving person in
the world. He is supposed to slash the bad on
the left and take the good on the right?
Nonsense! What if you were born in Africa and
never heard of Jesus? You cannot tell me that
God hates those good, wonderful people.
I
have been to Kenya many times. I would go back
in the bush and see the natural beauty and
spirit the people have. If those souls are not
going to Heaven, then I do not want to go. If
all the people of the world who do not know
Jesus are damned to hell, then I do not want
to go, because only an evil god could do such
a thing.
In
truth, all of us will go back to live with the
Father and Mother God. That is the true
Heaven; there is no hell. We are going back to
the God that we love, who loves us
unconditionally. But you might say, "I'm
a sinner. I have done terrible things."
So have I; so have we all.
Does
love fill churches? No! Fear does. Fear builds
big cathedrals! It makes people fall to their
knees, bend their heads, and strike their
breasts. Imagine a loving God looking at this!
If your children fell to their knees in front
of you and hit their chest every time they
walked in the room, then what kind of a parent
would you think you were? Something would be
very wrong with that.
If
you come from the position that God is Love,
you will be all right. Just say, "God, my
day is spent for You. Know always that my
heart is with You, through all my faults and
foibles." I know that God knows my heart.
He knows where my Truth is, even with human
failings. He knows that my motives are right.
And so are yours!
 Excerpted
from:
God,
Creation, and Tools of Life
by Sylvia Browne.
Reprinted with permission by
Hay House Inc. ©2000. www.hayhouse.com
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