T. 25. VII. 1 – 3. Jesus: “If the Holy Spirit can commute each sentence you have laid upon yourself into a blessing, then it surely cannot be a sin! For sin would be the only thing in all the world that could not change. If you believe in it at all, it has to be immutable. And on its ‘changelessness’ the world depends!
The magic of the world can seem to hide the pain of sin from those who believe it real, but it merely deceives them with glitter and with guile. Yet each one knows the certain cost of sin is death. And so it is! For sin is a request for death, a wish to make this world’s fearful foundation seem ‘sure as love,’ dependable as Heaven, and as strong as God Himself!
To everyone who thinks sin possible, the world you see is surely ‘safe’ from love. Nor will this change! Yet is it possible that what God created not could share the attributes of His creation, when it opposes His creation in every way?
It simply cannot be that the ‘sinner’s’ wish for death is just as strong as is God’s Will for life. Nor can the basis of a world He did not make be firm and sure as Heaven. How could it be that hell and Heaven are the same, or even on equal footing? And is it possible that something He did not will cannot be changed? What is immutable besides His Will? And what can share its attributes except itself? What wish can rise against His Will, and not be subject to another choice?
If you could only realize that nothing is changeless but the Will of God, this course would not be difficult for you. For it is this that you do not believe. Yet if you but looked at what it really is, there is nothing else you could believe!
Let us go back to what we said before, and think of it more carefully. It must be so that either God is mad, or is this world a place of madness. Not one Thought of His makes any sense at all within this world. And nothing that the world believes is true has any meaning in His Mind at all. What makes no sense and has no meaning is insanity. And what is madness cannot be the truth. If one belief so deeply valued here were true, then every Thought God ever had is an illusion. And if but one Thought of His is true, then all beliefs the world gives any meaning to are false, and make no sense at all.
This is the choice you make. Do not attempt to see it differently, nor twist it into something it is not! For only this decision can you make. The rest is up to God, and not to you.”