The Jesus of A Course in Miracles is not sent by God to suffer and die on the cross in a sacrificial atonement for sin, but rather teaches that there is no sin by demonstrating that nothing happened to him in reality, for sin has no effect on the Love of God; the Jesus of the Bible agonizes, suffers, and dies for the sins of the world in an act that brings vicarious salvation to humanity, thereby establishing sin and death as real, and moreover clearly reflecting that God has been affected by Adam’s sin and must respond to its actual presence in the world by sacrificing His beloved Son.
Thus from the perspective of A Course in Miracles, the God of the Bible, Creator of the world and author of the atonement plan of suffering, sacrifice and death, is an ego God. He is one who clearly represents the thought system of the ego’s specialness that the Course sets forth. Jesus himself makes these parallels in the text, as seen in the opening sections in Chapters 3 and 6, the introduction to Chapter 13, the important section in Chapter 23, “The Laws of Chaos,” as well as in many, many other places in the Course.
The figure of Jesus in the Bible is totally incompatible with the Jesus who authored A Course In Miracles. In fact, Jesus himself states in the Course, in obvious reference to the historical images that were drawn from the biblical ones, that bitter idols were made of him “who would be only brother to the world” (C-5.5: 7)
Peace,
Murray |
