[Excerpt from Conversations With God]
And this is the second great illusion of man: that the
outcome of life is in doubt.
It is this doubt about ultimate outcome that has created your greatest enemy, which is fear. For if you doubt outcome, then you
must doubt Creator-you must doubt God. And if you doubt God, you must live in fear and guilt all your life.
If you doubt God’s intentions-and God’s ability to
produce this ultimate result-then how can you ever
relax? How can you ever truly find peace?
Yet God has full power to match intentions with results. You cannot and will not believe in this (even though you claim that
God is all-powerful), and so you have to create in your imagination a power equal to God, in order that you may find a way for
God’s will to be thwarted. And so you have created in your mythology the being you call “devil.” You have even imagined a
God at war with this being (thinking that God solves problems the way you do). Finally, you have actually imagined that God
could lose this war.
All of this violates everything you say you know about
God,
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