Neville Goddard's Mistake in saying, "Only Two Things Displease God." There is only one.

I heard Neville Goddard say in a lecture that only two things mentioned in the Bible displease God. One, the failure to believe that I am He; and two, eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

He was wrong.

I believe that God wants us to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Because without our having conscience from the that tree he can't steer us back to the Tree of Life. Jesus Christ is the Shining One who draws us Adams with his love. He imbues us with conscience from within ("you have robbed God who gave you this life, and you have wasted it"), and then he goes with us AS us: "Upon your belly you shall go, eating dust,"--our lives are that dust. When we become convicted of our sin in light of his perfection and see that it is good to be like him, then the journey begins.

Begins. We go through the education of religion. We bruise God's head--the fullness of his deity--by thinking that we are separate from him--"wholly other" the doctrine says--as if that were even a possibility. That is an insult to him. And he bruises our "heel," that is, afflicts our lives with suffering (which afflicting actually we cause to ourselves by our own ignorant thoughts manifesting-- because we are not separate, we ARE him).

He, God, is that holy Spirit who "breathed" into us the consciousness of being who we are. Inside, it knows that it is God, but having forgotten (to become us), we deny it. Our denying that we are God is the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, for what else does it testify but that he is Jesus Christ within us, and that he is God. Ironically, it is retail religion that teaches us to blaspheme the Holy Spirit (BUT--it was God who sent me to seminaries to learn the scriptures and the doctrines--He is not afraid of them).

We are King Pharaoh who set ourselves up as other, separate gods and say, "Who is YHWH that I should worship him?"

So there is only one thing on Neville's list which truly displeases God: our failure to believe that I am He.

"I am He, because He became Me." THAT is what the whole of the Bible is about. And worthy is the Lamb who became us.

Which brings up another thing--the failure to "get" this message when we read the Bible. I just did a post venting about the inadvertent subversion of the Lord's Prayer. How about the perversion of Jesus into Satan in Genesis, and his imbuing of man with conscience as man's "fall"? Please! How about Paul's believing that "Jesus Christ" was a literal, historical man other than himself who was going to come back in judgment real soon (Thessalonians) instead of God's work within man (Ephesians)?

Or the belief that the creation of God's plan in six days was the creating of universal physical manifestation in six days. Or that Adam and Eve were two people instead of one. (I like to joke, "Actually, I am a lot of people.") Or that any of the Bible has to do with literal, "secular" history instead of being psychological and spiritual development. Or that Hell is some eternal elsewhere instead of being restored back to this world of death, the "outer darkness" of our afflicted, ignorant and blind lives.

There is a point to these "errors" in the Bible, these failures to perceive the truth even by the authors of it: our ignoranced consciousnesses develop. We have to work to find the truth. There is striving involved, mental investment, effort to growth. It takes time, but "You will find me when you search for "Me" with your whole heart."

No, I don't suppose that got across either. Think about it.