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Can anyone tell me if studying “A Course in Miracles” would be “out of line” for a true catholic? That is, is this spiritual study program heretical?
Yes. Try St. Ignatius instead.Can anyone tell me if studying “A Course in Miracles” would be “out of line” for a true catholic?
I used to have many, many verses of CIM memorized - and some of the ideas it contained aren’t going to be harmful. Forgive your brother. What’s the harm in that, right? We could probably all be better at forgiveness.Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Therein lies the peace of God.
This is supposed to teach us that if we “get it” well enough to cause a little shift in our perception and forgive, (thereby acheiving peace, “a miracle”) we should have no problem raising the dead or moving a mountain, because all miracles come from the same substance - which each of us have access to. There’s no such thing as little miracles and big miracles.There is no order of difficulty in miracles.
Miracles are both beginnings and endings, and so they alter the temporal order. They are always affirmations of rebirth, which seem to go back but really go forward. They undo the past in the present, and thus release the future.
That second snippet used to be my favorite quote from the whole book. Can you see how attractive the idea would be to someone who rejected the need for a Savior, denied that my shortcomings could have ever been a part of the need to nail Christ to the cross? That was me. We are our own Saviors, as soon as we change our minds. You don’t need any help getting to heaven because we are in heaven NOW… if we merely shift our perception. (Christ, have mercy!)Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn presented once again, so where you made a faulty choice before you now can make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought to you.
Thank you, ElizabethJoy – that was definitely the best description of CIM I’ve ever read!It’s a bunch of contradictory BS, written in flowery, emotional language. …
AMEN!They won’t believe in the message of Fatima, and they’ll sneer at you for praying the rosary, but they’ll fall for this new age mumbo-jumbo?
shannin said:\ It’s New Age.
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AmenIt’s a bunch of contradictory BS, written in flowery, emotional language.
**Dear Lord, forgive us our ignorance. **
It’s a bunch of contradictory BS, written in flowery, emotional language.