Reader Comments on What a Difference a Few Words Make
by Greg Mackie. Read the article.
Using Greg's line of reasoning, there are Biblical Scholars who have and do say that the Course is not truth at all. When Greg says, "that manufacturing meaning to satisfy an agenda of ours ... sacrifices truth," I understand he is trying to preserve truth, and the Course. But the essential problem with that, as I found from being a Christian for several decades (and a student of history, I might add) that many claim to have the "truth" and try and control it, specify it, catalog it, and control those who follow it. It is such a human tendency to take spiritual truth and make it into a religion in order to "preserve it." But in the end, the essential truth of what was said gets lost. Spiritual truth can only be truly expressed and preserved by living it in love. How does one even know that Greg doesn't have his own agenda, or that he is interpreting the Course in his way, thinking only his interpretation is the correct one?
Conservative Christians reject the Course outright. They justify it by quoting chapter and verse from the Bible and claim they have the handle on the "truth." I see no difference from them in your website. I find it quite ironic that the very tactics used here are the ones that others would use to discredit you. In the meantime, all that is happening is that people again debate "doctrinal stances," and fight about that, while violating the very core of the teachings they are supposedly trying to protect.
Jesus is quoted in the Bible as saying, "by their fruits you shall know them," (about false teachers). The Course itself teaches that we are to apply the teachings in the Course by living them, not discussing them, or fighting about whose interpretation is the purest or best. Greg, if Jesus could dictate the Course to Helen in order to reach people and supposedly correct the Bible or other people teaching error in His Name, He/the Holy Spirit is strong enough to save us all from error. By reinforcing your goal of preserving the truth of the Course for those who are supposedly misinterpreting it, you are promoting a dualistic and fear-based view of God and truth. Sounds like the religious dogma I am trying to escape from.
—Patrice
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