Presented by the ForgiveNest Podcast, Alison Anton introduces ‘God, Our Creator’, in this first part of a four-part series on the main characters in A Course in Miracles. This installment explores how God is described in the Course as formless, timeless, and perpetually loving of all. Alison clarifies common misconceptions about God's nature, emphasizing that God did not create the physical world or human bodies, which are seen as illusions in the Course. The episode concludes with reflections on God's will to lift us out of illusions and into holiness.
Episode Timestamp:
00:00 Introduction to Course Cosmology, Part 1
00:50 Understanding God's Love
03:18 God's Nature and Attributes
05:55 God's Kingdom and Reality
13:30 The Concept of ‘Need-Lack’ in Heaven
16:13 Aligning Our Will with God's
18:59 Conclusion and Next Steps
Podcast Category: Spirituality and Religion
ACIM References, Quotes and Prayers Cited:
Note: Alison Anton uses the Complete and Annotated Edition (CE) of A Course in Miracles. This edition is based on the original handwritten notes of Helen Schucman, scribe of A Course in Miracles. Publisher: Circle of Atonement.
“You cannot understand how much your Father loves you, for there is no parallel in your experience of the world to help you understand it. There is nothing on earth with which it can be compared, and nothing you have ever felt apart from Him that resembles it ever so faintly.” [ACIM CE T-14.VI]
“Eternity is one time, its only dimension being ‘always’.” [ACIM CE T-9.VI.7:5-6]
“Reality is everything.” [CE T-9.I.15:3]
“God did not make the body, because it is destructible and therefore not of the Kingdom.” [ACIM CE T-6.VII.2:1]
“Being of God, knowledge has nothing to do with your perceptions at all.” [ACIM CE T-3.V.7]
“God’s thoughts are given all the power that their own Creator has, for He would add TO love by its extension.” [ACIM CE W-WI.11.2:1]
“There is one miracle, as there is one reality.” [ACIM CE T-13.IX.6:3]
“Ideas leave not their source.” [CE T-26.VII.4:6] [ACIM CE W-132.4-5] [ACIM CE W-167.3:4-5] [ACIM CE W-156.1:3]
"The Kingdom of God is within you and can never be lost." [CE W-77.3:4]
“Until the separation, nothing was lacking. This meant that you had no needs at all. If you had not deprived yourself, you would never have experienced them.” [ACIM CE T-1.48.20:2-5]
“God wills you perfect happiness now. Is it possible that this is not also your will?” [ACIM CE T-9.VI.10:5-6]
“God’s plan for your salvation could not have been established without YOUR will and YOUR consent. It MUST have been accepted BY the Son of God, for what God wills FOR him he must receive, for God wills not apart FROM him.” [ACIM CE T-21.V.6:1-3]
“Let me remember that my goal is God.” [ACIM CE W-258:1]
“Oh my brothers, if you only knew the peace that will envelop you and hold you safe and pure and lovely in the Mind of God, you could but rush to meet Him where His altar is. Hallowed your name and His, for they are joined here in this holy place. Here He leans down to lift you up to Him—out of illusions into holiness; out of the world and into timelessness; out of all fear and given back to love.” [ACIM CE C-3.8]
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