God's Self Expression and the World

[J_Peterson]

In order for me to answer that, I need to give some background.

In the Course, “Heaven”. (or the universe) is the creation of God; Earth (or the world) is not. Earth is the world of separation. Heaven is eternal and real; earth is temporal and illusory. So, the creation, the separation, and the reunification or reconcilation occurred simultaneously from the perspective of God’s eternal now. The Holy Spirit heals or reconciles the separation.

The creation is infinite.

“The circle of creation has no end. Its starting and its ending are the same. But in itself it holds the universe of all creation, without beginning and without an end.” - A Course In Miracles
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Okay. I did not mean to overwhelm you.

That sounds a bit like Gnosticism to me. How do they reconcile the human person, who is a part of the Earth. How can we be made in the Image of God when God didn’t make the material world? Was our soul created by God since it’s not material? If that’s the case, why would God place it in something He didn’t create (kind of like putting good wine in a dirty glass). Also, who created the material world?

Sorry, that’s a lot of questions. Even if I don’t agree with it, it is interesting to hear about.