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others say as an excuse “ Oh, I’m just a sinner and imperfect.”
You/we are not sinners unless we do not desire to be one with the Father
believing that we can’t be perfect because, it’s impossible not to sin. Even
though we have the inclination to sin [misunderstand], the solution is always
there. Morality is a spiritual condition; a chance to use our free will to
express morality willfully. The world around us, especially the religious
world, mandates morality, meaning: to present rigid laws that everyone must
conform to under the pretense of love or loving instructions. However,
morality cannot be mandated. Morality is a willful choice between right and
wrong, and it emanates from the spirit of God, by using a person’s
conscience in to make a right choice. We are always inclined to do what is
right, but when we choose wrongly we should learn from our mistakes.
Remember, we were given only Ten Commandments, which were not really
commandments, but rather guidelines. These guidelines are precepts
predicated on love. They are like a spiritual light when followed. That light
enables us to experience the love of God, and love frees us from coercion.
Coming into love and knowing what love is enables us never to violate any
of those loving precepts willfully.
Unconditional love beckons anyone to draw nearer regardless of
circumstance, but when love is a pretense [as to know about love], a person
is open to deception. The pretense of love eventually pushes a person away
or holds them captive, because it is not genuine and under that pretense it is
self-serving to the benefit of a person who does not know love, and who
does not love; such a condition become repulsive. The true precepts of love
are a hidden value, which always extends love in the right ways, and is made
complete when received. Thus, it is more blessed to give than to receive,
but when love is given, and when love is genuinely received, love is made
complete.
Unfortunately, we live in a world where conflict is abundant; it is continual.
We find it even within churches, and it seems never to be tethered. A great
conspiracy continues between what is right and what is wrong. In order for
love to be made complete, the conflict must end; for those endowed with
the Holy Spirit it will end, from within, which is precisely what Jesus
encouraged. Consider that many, if not all religions are poised to argue and
quarrel in a instant when their theory is questioned. Apologetics is a branch
of theology that is concerned with proving the truth of Christianity; it
persists a systematic, argumentative discourse, as a defense of Christian
concepts… as if Jesus is ever a subject to be quarreled over. When