T. 19. II. 3 – 6. Jesus: “The Son of God can be mistaken; he can deceive himself; he can even turn the power of his mind against himself. But he cannot sin!
There is nothing he can do that would change his reality in any way, nor could it ever really make him guilty. But that is what ‘sin’ would have to do, for such is its purpose. Yet for all the wild insanity inherent in the whole idea of sin, it is simply impossible! For the ‘wages of sin’ is death, and how can the immortal die?
A major tenet of the insane religion made to suit the ego is that sin is not error but actually ‘truth,’ and it is innocence instead that would deceive! Purity among those like you and me is seen as arrogance, and the acceptance of the self as sinful is perceived as ‘holiness!’ And it is this doctrine that would replace the Son of God’s reality, as his Father created him and willed that he be forever. Is to believe that you are sinful just ‘humility?’
Or is it rather, an attempt to wrest creation away from truth and keep it separate? In this distorted view, any attempt to reinterpret sin as merely error is always indefensible to the ego. The idea of sin is wholly sacrosanct to its thought system, and quite unapproachable except with reverence and awe. It is the most ‘holy’ concept in the ego’s thought system; ‘lovely and powerful,’ indisputably true, and necessarily protected with every defense at the ego’s disposal. For here lies its ‘best defense,’ which all the others serve. Here is its armor, its protection, and the fundamental purpose served by the special relationship in the ego’s interpretation of it.
It can indeed be said that the ego made its world on the very premise of sin. Only in such a world could everything be upside down. This is the strange illusion that makes the clouds of guilt seem heavy and impenetrable. The solidness that this world’s foundation seems to have is found in this strange belief. For sin has changed creation from an idea of God to an ideal the ego wants; a world it rules, made up of bodies, mindless and capable of complete corruption and decay.
If this is but a mistake, it can be undone easily by choosing truth instead. Any mistake can be corrected if it be brought to truth for judgment. But if instead, the mistake is given the status of truth, to what can it be brought? The ‘holiness’ of sin is kept in place by just this strange device.
As ‘truth,’ sin is inviolate, and everything is brought to it for judgment. As a mistake, it need but be brought to truth. It is impossible to have faith in sin, for sin is faithlessness itself. Yet it is surely possible to have faith that a mistake can be corrected.”