聽神談【正視人們關於「神」的價值判斷】
你們已納為「你的真理」的價值判斷(value judgment)，很少是你自己的—— 以你自身的經驗為基礎而做出的判斷。然而，經驗是你投胎來到這裡的目的——經由「你的經驗」來創造你自己。但你卻一直在經由「別人的經驗」創造你自己。
如果真有所謂的「罪」這樣的東西的話，那它會是：你因為別人的經驗，讓自己變成你今日所是的樣子。你沒等到你自己的經驗，就接受別人的經驗為福音，然後，當你第一次遇到了實際的經驗時，你就將「你認為你已經知道的」覆蓋在那際遇上。
如果你不這樣做的話，你可能會有一個全然不同的經驗——可能使得你原本的教導老師或來源是錯誤的。然而，在大部分情況下，你不想使你的父母、你的學校、你的宗教、你的傳統、你的聖典是錯誤的——所以你否定了你自己的經驗，而贊成別人已告訴你的東西。
這一點，再也沒有比你們對於人類「性行為」的處理上，被證實得更清楚的了。在「金錢」方面，你們也做了同樣的價值判斷。你們已經如此根深蒂固地植入了別人的教誨，以至你否定了你自己的經驗，而去支持「你認為的真理」。
令人驚愕的是，你們在「關於神」的周圍，也創造了這同樣的矛盾觀念。關於神，你內心所經驗的每件事都告訴你神是好的。但你的老師們教導你有關神的，都告訴你神是不好的。你的內心告訴你，神是應該無懼地被愛的(God is to be loved without fear)，你的老師們卻告訴你，神是該被懼怕的(God is to be feared)，因為他是一位報復心重的神。他們說，你們該活在害怕神的憤怒(God's wrath)中。你們該在他面前顫抖。你的整個人生都要害怕主的審判(judgment of the Lord)。 因為你被告知，上帝是「公正的」。而且老天有眼，當你面對上帝可怕的公義時，你就麻煩大了。因此，你該「服從」神的命令。不然……
尤其重要的是，你不可以問像這樣的邏輯性問題，如「如果神要人們嚴格地服從他的律法，那他為什麼要創造出那些律法有被違犯的可能性呢？」啊！你的老師告訴你——因為神要你們有「自由選擇」。然而，當你選擇其一而不選其二就會引發譴責時，是哪門子的自由選擇呢？
當所謂「自由意志」並非你的意志，是別人的意志，並且是你必須服從的時，「自由意志」又如何是自由的呢？那些教你們這觀念的人，會讓神是個偽君子。
摘自《與神對話 I》第2章
Very few of the value judgments you have incorporated into your truth are judgments you, yourself, have made based on your own experience. Yet experience is what you came here for—and out of your experience were you to create yourself. You have created yourself out of the experience of others.
If there were such a thing as sin, this would be it: to allow yourself to become what you are because of the experience of others. This is the "sin" you have committed. All of you. You do not await "your own experience, you accept the experience of others as gospel (literally), and then, when you encounter the actual experience for the first time, you overlay what you think you already know onto the encounter.
If you did not do this, you might have a wholly different experience—one that might render your original teacher or source wrong. In most cases, you don't want to make your parents, your schools, your religions, your traditions, your holy scriptures wrong—so you deny your own experience in favor of what you have been told to think.
Nowhere can this be more profoundly illustrated than in your treatment of human sexuality.
You have done the same thing with money. Every time in your life that you have had lots and lots of money, you have felt great. You felt great receiving it, and you felt great spending it.
There was nothing bad about it, nothing evil, nothing inherently "wrong." Yet you have so deeply ingrained within you the teachings of others on this subject that you have rejected your experience in favor of "truth."
Amazingly, you have created this same contradiction around God. Everything your heart experiences about God tells you that God is good.Everything your teachers teach you about God tells you God is bad. Your heart tells you God is to be loved without fear. Your teachers tell you God is to be feared, for He is a vengeful God. You are to live in fear of God's wrath, they say. You are to tremble in His presence. Your whole life through you are to fear the judgment of the Lord. For the Lord is "just," you are told. And God knows, you will be in trouble when you confront the terrible justice of the Lord. You are, therefore, to be "obedient" to God's commands. Or else....
Above all, you are not to ask such logical questions as, "if God wanted strict obedience to His Laws, why did He create the possibility of those Laws being violated?" Ah, your teachers tell you—because God wanted you to have "free choice." Yet what kind of choice is free when to choose one thing over the other brings condemnation?
How is "free will" free when it is not your will, but someone else's, which must be done? Those who teach you this would make a hypocrite of God.