Re: But light and love murders, does it not?
God who is love is not concerned at all about who and what we do with our bodies and minds. God does not judge us for our "sins" and does not judge you or me...in one way or another for murder, gluttony, sexual immorality, or other deadly sins even. Time judges those things. All that is not love dies. Does God judge a male dog for humping another male dog or for licking his own testicles? Does God judge a dog for killing another dog? It is silly to think that God who is love judges flesh. Flesh does what flesh does. God judges the heart.
WE only get on God's radar if we act joyfully with kindness, show dignity or compassion to others and ourselves with a loving intention... and even then it is not the act so much as the intention that survives time... When we no longer have physical bodies...our intentions will move unobstructed across a limitless imagination. We get hung up on judging ourselves in our minds because we use our time unwisely but the only true wisdom is love. Time is the key ingredient here. God who is love is timeless so God only judges what is timeless in that she allows only timeless intentions of love, dignity, compassion, and kindness into the final cut of who we are outside of time.
We judge ourselves for the race of death and we judge ourselves as not deserving of God's love but God holds no grudges against us for our lack but rather loves us for our gain. Remember that God is our parent...and there are parents that disown their children or judge them for their flaws but God who is love is a good parent...the best parent who overlooks our weaknesses and only hopes the best for us. God who is love really does love us beyond all measure that we could ever imagine. God who is made of light is love. The goal then for us should be for us not to be as concerned with social moral expectations of "don't do's" but rather to be more concerned with filling our lives with as many loving intentions as possible so we will not be duped into falling back into a bodies that die over and over again. If we want to stop causing harm then quit sending your soul back into bodies that cause harm.
Causing harm to ourselves and others never makes it to the other side but it does take away from our opportunities where we could have loved... We judge ourselves but the answer is not to say all things are good... All things are not good... Murder is not good... War is not good...Sexual immorality is not good... Even if we convince ourselves that our intentions for these things are good in our minds... It is like apples and oranges. Bodies and minds have rules about what is not good but souls attached to bodies can be influenced away from the light.
God does not have a scales and measures kind of judgment for what we do... It is not a tit for tat... God only judges us for how much light we added to what God is when time ends... Murder, war, or any kind of abuse we do to ourselves or others is not even factored in to what makes it to the final cut of what makes it beyond timelessness. God who is love doesn't reject any light at all but all darkness is forgotten in timelessness.
All loving intentions survive our body but our souls judge ourselves to determine if we loved as much as we could have. To avoid falling again to try and get it "right" next time...we need only quit judging ourselves and accept that we are doing the best we can... Just the way God who is love judges us...
Our bodies do what our bodies do. If we change our outlook to one of being kindness and joy as opposed to checking off a list of bad things we do then that is good but to say all things are good is not the solution. If you fill your life up with light then darkness may creep in but spending our energies fighting darkness are acts that die when we die...
Being for love and filling our lives with light in spite of our harming ourselves and others should be a spiritual goal. Our bodies and minds will go along with this as long as their needs are met. Ignore the bodies needs and it will twist the mind into thinking murder is okay. Ignore a mind that wants to define rules and it will ignore the souls connection to all souls and justify murder. Embrace love and doing unto others what you would have them do to you and one's life can balance itself and one's mind can forgive one's own imperfections. Kill as little as possible. Harm as little as possible...but every step we take bruises the grass we walk on... the bite of food we eat may have killed a plant or animal... but that is not love.. It is just what the body and mind need to survive. There is a day coming when our bodies will not be so hungry to kill... There is a day coming when our bodies will be a lighter variation of what they are now. It is coming before the earth's heart has failed. My soul hungers for this time. Today, I can only walk as gently as possible and eat as consciously as possible...but if those acts tread on loving kindness then I have to forgive my body for killing for food and water... I must forgive myself if I bruise others and just try to do the best I can to avoid causing harm... just enough so that I can make my life a testament to love...the best I can do in spite of it all.