Jesus Christ

Sin

[Speaker 3] I do believe is in Jesus Christ. I believe in a God who created the universe—yes, including all of us—yes, that because we are one.

[Bashar] All right, you believe you are a sinner. What is a sinner? Will you define this for me since it is outside the concept of my Society?

[Speaker 3] You never heard?

[Bashar] We have not heard the concept from you.

Therefore, if you would define for me your concept of the idea you call sinner as it relates to how you see yourself.

[Speaker 3] Sin for me is anything that I would do, think, that goes against something God wants.

What does God want?

God wants—I guess, very simply, God’s need to show unconditional love.

[Bashar] One moment, one moment, one moment.

Did you say unconditional love?

[Speaker 3] Unconditional love.

[Bashar] Do you understand what that means?

[Speaker 3] I understand it to me that as far as people love—for example, the people in here—who they are and what they’ve done.

As far as I’m concerned, I love them because God loves—no right to overrule.

God loves everybody in here; I have no right to overrule that.

The Nature of Choice and Creation

[Bashar] All right, now you know that you can create the reality of overruling it, but we understand what you mean when you say you have no right.

You do have a right because you can do it, but that does not mean that it’s something you want to do.

You follow me?

Anything you can do, you have a right to do in the sense that you can do it because you are also the Creator.

Now again, we are not suggesting this is what you want to do, nor are we suggesting that this is something which would create Harmony upon your world—no.

But in this way, simply take yourself literally: it is not a matter of whether you have the right to do it; you can do it.

Because you know people have done it—people have very blatantly judged other people.

Is this not so?

All right.

Now, because they can do it, it is not a matter of whether or not they have the right to do it.

Is it wrong?

There is no right and wrong; it is a matter of whether you choose to create a positively manifesting reality or a negatively manifesting reality.

Which would you suggest?

[Speaker 3] I would suggest the positive one.

Topic: Positive vs. Negative Manifestation

[Bashar] Because in this way, choosing the positively manifesting reality will be integrating yourself with all that is and therefore knowing yourself as the Creator and allowing the Creator to know you in that way.

Whereas a negatively manifesting reality is to separate the idea of yourself from all that is, to isolate, to create an idea of isolation that does not allow you to feel your connection to all that is, and in this way leads to what you call the need to dominate.

When you separate yourself from all that is, the only way that you will feel you can collect what you see around you to you is to dominate and control it.

Thus, in this way, you create many ideas out of separation and negative manifestation that are, in your terms, unpleasant—disease and many other ideas that you say you do not like.

This is why we would suggest positive manifestation.

However, recognize that we perceive the idea in and of itself that you call judgment to be of the negative manifestation.

Thus, we do not say anything is right or wrong because that to us is to judge all that is.

You follow me?

To us, even the idea of judgment is the choosing of the negative.

Now you can know what you prefer.

To know what you prefer does not mean that you have to judge or invalidate anyone else in terms of the way they chose to explore their own God, to relate to themselves as their portion of all that is.

Now, if they have chosen separation—negative reality, limitation, judgment—then it will be less likely that they will perceive their connection to all that is.

In this way, however, one who is integrated has chosen the idea of unconditional love and will recognize that there is no need to judge those who have not chosen unconditional love.

Unconditional love is the granting of validity to everything within creation for its own sake because that portion of creation has seen fit to learn about itself in the way it has chosen.

Then you, in choosing unconditional love, generate the faith and the trust to know that in an ultimate sense they are always going to be all right.

Because ultimately every idea is still contained within the overall idea of all that is and cannot become lost.

There is nowhere to lose anything to until you create that type of Separation.

There is nowhere to lose anything to until you, in choosing negativity and limitation and separation from yourself as all that is, choose to create a dimension in which you can remove yourself from the rest of everything.

The Lost Soul

[Bashar] Any idea that you call a “lost soul” is a contradiction in terms; a soul always knows where it is.

The idea we are ascribing to many individuals who are expressing simply that specific ritualized Expressions through which they channel the idea of their love many times, even though they express it to be unconditional, still comes with conditions.

Now we are not saying this is your case; we are simply saying that we are relating to the terminology that you are using by being so specific about what you have described to be the way you believe and what you have called the idea of being a sinner, which by your ultimate definition means someone who has placed themselves outside their recognition of themselves as God.

[Speaker 3] God, yes, of course.

Topic: God is Everything

[Bashar] Now understand, this is what we are talking about.

Many of what you call upon your planet—your beliefs or your religions, so to speak—speak of the idea of God or what we call all that is as being omnipotent, everywhere, omniscient, all-knowing, all-seeing, everything, everywhere.

Now, if God by your definition is everything, how can you be outside of it?

You must also be God; God must also be you.

Now, God knows that you are God.

Why do you not know that you are God?

[Speaker 3] So say I make a model—I create a model of what—all right, not me, yes.

Topic: Physical Reality as Symbol/Illusion

[Bashar] It is.

Understand that what you experience as your physical reality is all a symbol—if you wish to use the term illusion.

All right, that may clarify it for you.

That illusion or symbol is a representation of an idea.

Yes, are that idea—you understand that everything in your universe is a matter physically of vibration.

You cannot perceive anything that you are not.

The vibration that you are makes what you perceive the physical reality to be.

Thus, if you have created this idea of a model airplane in front of you, you are extending a portion of the idea of yourself and reflecting it back to yourself as the ability to do that outside yourself seemingly.

But everything that you perceive—every individual in the room—is your creation.

You have to create your version of them in order to perceive them.

FOLLOWING JESUS VS. BEING LIKE JESUS

Asker: I am dedicating my life to following Jesus Christ

[Bashar] Why would you want to do that? Jesus did not want you to do that. He does not want you to follow him; he wants you to be like him.

Upon your planet, many times the terminology that you choose does reflect how you go about relating to the ideas you think you believe in.

In this case, you are saying that by following someone, you are separating yourself and making yourself less than rather than being equal to, which is what he wanted you to know—that all of you are Christ Consciousness like he is.

In this way, the idea of what you have referred to in your Society as the Second Coming is not the coming of an individual; it is the recognition within each individual upon your planet of the Christ that you are and living like it.

That is your second coming.

I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life

[Speaker 3] When Jesus said—I don’t know if he said—but he said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through me.” What do you mean by that?

[Bashar] The idea is this: he was saying—to paraphrase in your terminology as you understand your language now—“What you perceive in me is the vibration of integration wherein I know myself to be on the same level, equal to God, all that is.”

The only way that you will know yourself to be that idea is to be like me—be of the equal vibration of recognizing yourself as all that is.

That is why he said, “I am the way.”

He did not mean, “I know the only thing that will get you there.”

He simply meant that you, in allowing yourself to know that everything you do is valid in the overall sense, are granting support and service and validity to the ultimate idea of the creation itself and recognizing your own quality to godhood.

That is being the way.

[Speaker 3] You said something and people kind of laugh and you go, “He didn’t say ‘I know the only way’—but he said ‘way, truth’…”

Biblical Accuracy

[Bashar] your bible contains less than 10% of what that Jesus ever said in his life.

What was even written down is very much misinterpreted according to the understanding of when it was written.

your Bible was not written to record history; it was written to convert.

It is in this way true for those individuals that wrote it in the way they understood it, but recognize that there is still much misinterpretation of what was actually said.

In this way, we are sensing into the mass Consciousness, your higher levels of consciousness.

We cannot expect you to take us at our word; it is up to you to believe what you want, as we have said.

But we will discuss with you what we perceive to exist within your own higher consciousness, which knows itself to be equal to the idea of the Christ Consciousness.

We can talk to it, and so can you.

We are simply here to let you know that you can talk to your own higher Consciousness, and once you allow yourself to do so, you will find that it will tell you exactly what I am telling you.

[Speaker 3] Now is I guess what that’s what I believe.

All right, okay, it gets you where?

Topic: Everything is Valid

[Bashar] One moment—it makes you everything.

Understand this: it is not the idea of what you are perceiving to be a removal of validity.

“Big deal” does not mean the removal of validity.

It means the equalizing of everything as equally valid, the granting of validity to every perspective.

No one thing, no one belief is any more of a big deal than any other belief; they are all equal ideas and are valid, including the idea that no other idea is valid.

[Bashar] Yes, because that person would not have created it for themselves if they did not need to look at that idea.

[Speaker 3] Was Jesus Christ the only Son of God?

[Bashar] You are all children of God.

Now recognize that the idea as it was translated into your language is usually interpreted this way.

The idea of what you call Jesus Christ referring to himself was as the Son of Man.

Call himself the Son of Man; call himself the Son of God.

Look in your own Bible—he calls himself the Son of Man.

2000 years ago, that word “God”—I don’t believe was written in the…

[Speaker 3] Read the Bible.

[Bashar] Understand first of all that in this way, as you say, the writings of what was verbalized were not even begun to be committed to paper until approximately 57 years after the death of the physical Jesus.

So, you talked about the Bible being every single written idea—it contains some misinterpretation where it regards the idea of placing ritual around the idea of what happened.

[Speaker 3] God couldn’t have watched over—why should He? Because it was His word.

[Bashar] No, no, no—understand, it was a reflection, an offering, a gift, unconditional.

Remember that term—unconditional love.

God is unconditional love and will not force you to interpret something in any way, shape, or form.

It is up to you; that is why you are here.

[Speaker 3] So the word of God—the Bible—not word of God?

[Bashar] Yes, all of it is people simply understanding.

It is all relative.

The word of God is all relative to itself.

Topic: God Contains Everything

[Bashar] God contains every paradox, every dichotomy, every blending.

God is all that is; there is nothing outside.

You are all that is—your space in which you live, your time which you spend much of wondering who and what you are.

All of those things are creations from your idea of who you think you are.

You are one idea of God.

Every being in creation are all the different ways God has of looking at itself.

That is what it means to be all that is.

Every dimension, every being, everything, every thought—it is all God.

Many of those things come into creation simply because, for no other reason than they can.

Understand this: many times when you ascribe more importance to this passage or this literature than some other passage or literature, seeking for some ultimate idea of Truth, you are in that way at that moment diversifying, focusing, and fixating a portion of all that is and not looking at the whole, which always sees itself as whole.

The idea of knowing yourself to be God is simply allowing yourself the broadest possible definition of that concept.

And knowing that for God, that is real.

God knows itself to be its own being, but also knows itself to be the compilation of every being within it and knows every being within it to contain the totality of the whole.

In that way, as you say, nothing is impossible to all that is.

If you can conceive of it, it is real to all that is, and on some level, some dimension, some aspect of Consciousness, it exists.

If you can conceive of it, it exists, and it is a reality within all that is.

Topic: Purpose and Existence

Now, when you do this separating out and searching through and analyzing all of the different passages in literature, many times you go doing this because you are looking for this ultimate purpose.

Recognize this: existence is all that is.

It always was, is now, always will be.

Existence does not have its existence within time; time exists within all that is.

Therefore, it is eternal.

One moment—recognize therefore that the concept, and any concept that is created within all that is, is in a sense subordinate to it.

Therefore, ultimate truth as a concept, purpose as a concept, are things that exist within existence, and existence existed before there was the concept of purpose.

That which exists before the concept of purpose does not need a purpose to keep on existing.

Thus, all that is will be all that is in all the ways it can be, simply for no other reason, no other purpose, other than it can—because it is the Creator, and the Creator creates simply because it can.

Now, your symbols are valid for you.

You have changed your mind before, and you will change your mind again about what symbols are relevant in the understanding of who and what you are, and it does not matter in the overall sense what you choose to believe if you know that you are believing what you are believing out of unconditional love for all that is and also—equally important—unconditional love for yourself.

Then there is no need to worry about what you believe; there is no need to worry about what anyone believes because you know that whatever you believe is going to create the type of reality that you will experience.

[Speaker 3] The only—if that’s what you believe, what you’re missing is relationship with the God who made you.

[Bashar] Why?

Understand again: you are missing yourself.

The idea that I perceive both ideas—I contain the totality of the dichotomy of the polarity of the seeming opposites.

I know myself to be all that is, and I also know all that is relates to me as a higher Consciousness.

I can create the idea of knowing I have a relationship with all that is; at the same time, I can also see myself as the one creating that relationship and therefore being all that is to me.

This is not something which is mutually exclusive.

I can create whatever sense of relationship I wish, and I know that whatever sense of relationship I create is still going to be as real as any other sense of relationship that I choose to create.

For me, all of it is valid, and all of it is being created out of joy and ecstasy and unconditional love and the expression of the same unconditional love that the Creator created us to be.

That is how I perceive the relationship—I am always in the relationship with all that is within joy, love, and ecstasy.

For us and our civilization, the feeling of this ecstasy is the expression and the experience of what you are defining as the sense of that relationship.