You are in spiritual bondage as long as your fellow human beings force your will, as long as you are not given the right to make your own free decisions. Consequently, it cannot ever be My intention for you to be under threat of eternal punishment or be obliged to accept or reject what is prescribed to you.... You should make an entirely free decision, because your free will should decide, hence each individual person should make his own decision because this determines the soul’s fate after death. I Myself will not force you, neither have I given you any commandments which could restrict your free will.... Because even My commandment of love requires your free will, since love may not be compelled, which should be self-evident to every person. But only love will develop the knowledge of truth.... And thus you humans cannot benefit when it is specified what you should believe, what you should accept as truth.... because only a person living with love will be able to assess whether the doctrines given to you will correspond to the truth.... And this assessment has to be undertaken by every person himself, he may not be prevented from doing so by prohibition or commandments.... Because the latter is ‘spiritual coercion’. The consequence of such coercion is that people are living by a variety of misguided teachings and will not make their own effort to find their way out for fear of threatened ‘punishment’.
Every human being is entitled to his freedom of thought, and only his own assessment can result in happiness. Every dogmatic set of guidelines is spiritual coercion, irrespective of whether it is true or not. I constantly offer you humans the pure truth but I do not force you to accept it.... precisely because you should make your own free decision during your earthly life. And coercive measures are always an admission of weakness, of inability, to make people achieve an objective by other means. Anyone who genuinely wants to serve Me should, with much love, try to draw other people’s attention to the benefit of thinking and acting correctly. Time and again he should preach to them My Gospel of love, he should urge them to conduct themselves with love but refrain from all coercive measures. He can ask his fellow human beings to repeatedly listen to the proclamation of the divine Word.... he should remind them to do so kind-heartedly, but he should not make them do so under threat of divine punishment or use the commandments to force them.... because this is not in accordance with My will. For this reason I cannot agree with humanly decreed ecclesiastical laws which all merely impel a performance of duty but frequently undermine the voluntary dedication to Me.... And I can even less approve the prevention of inspecting the spiritual literature of other schools of thought.... Because every person should also be allowed to consider its truth, and he will also be able to do so if he is sincere in his desire for truth and asks Me Myself for assistance....
Freedom of thought and free will are decisive for a successful earthly life of a person, because I only value the results of free will, whereas anything that was imposed as a duty or fulfilment of a commandment is worthless before My eyes. Anyone who is making an effort to live a life of love will also clearly recognise that love alone is the crucial factor for the human being to live in truth.... Then he will also realise that all commandments have become null and void because a loving person will act in accordance with My will by himself. He will also know that every person has to struggle with himself so as to be able to make a decision based on free will. Because love alone is the bond with Me, Who is love Itself, and as soon as he walks the earthly path with Me, due to his life of love, his will is also directed such that he will no longer require any human commandments.... As far as I Am concerned you are free at all times.... but My adversary will forcefully try to gain you for himself. And since he is unable to force you himself he will attempt to achieve it through people who belong to him.... Therefore reject all coercion because it is always a sign of he who intends to corrupt you....
Amen
TranslatorV duhovnem suženjstvu si, dokler ti tvoji bližnji vsiljujejo svojo voljo, dokler ti še ni dana pravica, da se sam svobodno odločaš. Posledično, Moj namen za vas nikoli ne more biti, da bi bili pod grožnjo večne kazni ali da bi bili prisiljeni sprejeti ali zavrniti, kar vam je predpisano... Morali bi se odločati popolnoma svobodno, kot je vaša svobodna volja bi se moral odločati, zato naj bi se moral vsak posameznik odločiti sam, saj to odloča o usodi duše po smrti. Jaz Osebno vas ne bom silil, niti vam nisem dal nobene zapovedi, ki bi lahko omejila vašo svobodno voljo... Kajti tudi Moja zapoved ljubezni zahteva vašo svobodno voljo, saj ljubezni ni mogoče prisiliti, kar bi moralo biti jasno vsakemu človeku. Toda samo ljubezen bo razvila spoznanje resnice... In vi ljudje takrat ko je določeno v kaj morate verjeti, kaj morate sprejeti kot resnico, ne boste imeti koristi,... kajti samo tisti, ki živi z ljubeznijo, bo lahko ocenil ali nauki, ki so podani, ustrezajo resnici... In to presoditi je dolžnost vsakega človeka. Tega se mu ne sme preprečiti s prepovedjo ali ukazom... Ker je slednje 'duhovna prisila'. Posledica takšne prisile je, da ljudje živijo v skladu z raznimi lažnimi nauki in se zaradi strahu pred grozečo 'kaznijo' osebno ne bodo potrudili najti svoje poti.
Vsak človek ima pravico do svojega svobodnega mišljenja in samo lastna presoja mu lahko prinese srečo. Vsak dogmatični sklop smernic, ne glede na to ali je resničen ali ne, je duhovna prisila. Jaz vam ljudem nenehno ponujam čisto resnico, vendar vas ne silim, da jo sprejmete... ravno zaradi tega, ker bi se morali v svojem zemeljskem življenju sami svobodno odločati. In prisilni ukrepi so vedno priznanje šibkosti, nesposobnosti, da bi ljudje dosegli cilj z drugimi sredstvi. Vsak, ki Mi želi z veliko ljubezni resnično služiti, naj poskuša pritegniti pozornost drugih ljudi za korist pravilnega razmišljanja in ravnanja. Znova in znova bi jim moral pridigati Moj evangelij ljubezni, moral bi jih spodbujati, naj se vedejo v skladu z ljubeznijo, vendar bi se moral vzdržati vseh prisilnih ukrepov. Od svojih sledilcev lahko zahteva, naj večkrat poslušajo razodetje Božje Besede... naj jih dobrosrčno opomni naj to storijo, vendar jih ne bi smel pod grožnjo Božje kazni prisiliti, da to storijo ali uporabiti zapovedi, da bi jih prisilil... ker to ni v skladu z Mojo voljo. Iz tega razloga se ne morem strinjati s cerkvenimi zakoni, ki jih je določil človek, ki vsi zgolj silijo k opravljanju dolžnosti, vendar pogosto spodkopavajo prostovoljno predanost Meni... In še manj lahko odobravam onemogočanje pregledovanja literature drugih duhovnih šol mišljenja... Kajti vsakemu človeku bi moralo biti tudi dovoljeno upoštevati njegovo resnico, in če je iskren bo to tudi zmogel v svoji želji po resnici in bi Mene Samega prosil za pomoč... Za človekovo uspešno zemeljsko življenje sta svoboda misli in svobodna volja odločilni, ker cenim samo rezultate svobodne volje, medtem ko je vse, kar je bilo naloženo kot dolžnost ali izpolnitev zapovedi brez vrednosti pred Mojimi očmi. Vsak, ki se trudi živeti življenje ljubezni, bo prav tako jasno spoznal, da je samo ljubezen odločilni dejavnik, da človeško bitje živi v resnici... Potem bo tudi spoznal, da so vse zapovedi postale nične in neveljavne, ker bo ljubeča oseba sama ravnala v skladu z mojo voljo. Vedela bo tudi, da se mora vsak človek boriti sam s seboj, da bi se lahko odločil po svobodni volji. Ker je samo ljubezen vez z Menoj, ki Sem Ljubezen sama, in takoj ko z Menoj hodi po zemeljski poti, je zaradi njegovega življenja v ljubezni tudi njegova volja usmerjena tako, da ne bo več zahteval nobenih človeških zapovedi... Kajti samo Ljubezen je povezava z Menoj, ki Sem Ljubezen Osebno, in takoj ko stopi z Menoj po zemeljski poti, se zahvaljujoč njegovemu življenju ljubezni tudi njegova volja usmeri tako, da ne bo več potreboval nobenih človeških ukazov... Kar zadeva mene, ste vedno svobodni... toda Moj sovražnik se bo zelo trudil, da vas pridobi zase. In ker vas sam ni sposoben prisiliti, bo to poskušal doseči preko ljudi, ki mu pripadajo.... Skladno s tem zavračajte vsako prisilo, ker je vedno lastnost tistega, ki vas namerava pokvariti.
AMEN
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