T-10.V

The Denial of God

Denial of God is exposed as devotion to sickness and other idols that breeds separation, then undone by remembering Love and shared sinlessness, returning projection to the mind.

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Pillar
Rituals of despair reveal devotion to a false god.
The fatherless fantasy: denying the Source makes Love seem dangerous.
Symptom-idols demand allegiance; self-forgetting keeps them meaningful.
Nothing but the eternal can be loved; arrogance withholds and starves.
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▲ MilestoneCreation makes sin impossible; learn reality by seeing perfection.	▲ Milestone
Feeling fatherless: idols after an imagined attack on God.
Denial is a mistaken thought—sin against God is impossible.
Minor
Sharing cannot create the unlike; idols and sickness are not God-made.
Denying God makes suffering seem earned; creation’s innocence undoes the logic.
Time lasts only where the mind still chooses it.
What you deny becomes your experience; you receive the message you send.
The message you give is the one you receive.
Denial is sent outward and returned as judgment.
God’s call is heard through every part of the Sonship.
Only the eternal is lovable; love and creation’s conditions are fixed.
Denial becomes religion when the ego sacralizes sickness and loss.
Healing acknowledges God, not sickness; denial is corrected without retaliation.
Listening to God’s call teaches you to remember eternity.
Denying God denies the self He cannot be separate from.
Echo
Blame defends denial by making others responsible for lost joy.
Freedom, not punishment: God does not retaliate for “attack.”
To perceive guilt and suffering as real is to deny God’s creation.
Accepting how God created you undoes the logic of suffering.
You judge by what you give, not by what you think you receive.
The imagined attack on God breeds fatherlessness; God does not coerce.
Heaven waits as your dwelling; the Kingdom is restored by giving.
Looking with peace on brothers opens the heart to God.

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