For I so love the world, that I have never made tortured flesh any part of forever embracing My beloved children. No more lies inscribed in blood upon the skin of the lamb. No falser shepherds to feed wolves in My name. In My name, have such hateful acts been done; as to cause many with a human heart within to cringe and turn away from Me. By the evil they do, then lay at My feet; My name has been stained by oceans of innocent blood. They worship only themselves; of Me, they know nothing. I am neither absent, mute, nor a vain and insecure tyrant. I am not as they imagine. I am not as they have claimed.

Blood is neither mercy nor forgiveness, but only retribution and revenge. You rise not upon innocent blood, but by Loving Wisdom, augmented by grace. Having placed within you that gentle voice of conscience, would I demand the unconscionable? None can begin to know all that I am. They may not presume to insist. None can possibly know every path to Me. They may not claim any exclusivity. None can reckon My will for another. My glory is not in doubt and you need not serve it. For it is by your rise in Loving Wisdom, that I am most pleased.

My truth is not found even now, where they still seek it. I do not create evil. Having no rivals, how would I be jealous? Having set all in motion by My own will; with whom else may I be angry? As vengeance is sought only when true justice is beyond reach, how shall I be vengeful? They tell you that I am jealous, angry and vengeful. Then they make a misery of your world as proof. Courage is needed to fight monsters and Loving Wisdom is required not to become one.

You were told that in a conspiracy with evil, I rigged an ugly game against My own children; who were tricked to transgress, that I might curse all, dangle mercy and tease you to beg for it in fear. You are not tools of My self-worship. My concern is not the furtherance of My own glory. My children, I most desire you to be free. Even barriers serve you by offering a challenging shape and structure to your present understanding. Order may descend to stagnation and complexity to chaos. You have not yet squared the circle. Where I in truth, that jealous, angry, vengeful, unjust, bloodthirsty villain they invented to feed your fear; what desirable place, worthy of the name heaven, could I offer you or even inhabit?

It matters not the name proclaimed to inspire evil or good. Shall one name struggle against another? Good and evil are well recognized by the intentional causation or alleviation of suffering. Inhumanity and repression never possess divine mandate. How would I be served by an eternity of barren flattery? To bless you I need not to curse another. What worthy parent loves only one of their many children? I am not for a single tribe or even twelve; but for worlds beyond your counting, every one precious. I do not restrict your freedom, but lead you to rise. What parent subverts their child’s advance?

I observe your virtuous strivings and desire your independent success. Not for My glory, but for your own. I am loving and wise. To profit the guilty by harm to the innocent is not. I treasure all those who relieve needless suffering. They say I command evil to be done, that their own inhuman actions may seem justified. As this world is not meant to benefit a few at the expense of the many; how may creation itself be intended to glorify One at the cost of all the rest? No scripture which demands or socializes murder is true. Does your own loving conscience not tell you this? No spirit can truly gain their own rise atop the virtue of another.

This universe is neither hostile, nor heartless. You are not made to live in fear and confusion. I do not demand submission or servility. I am not your master, for you are not slaves. I desire not fearful obedience; but willing accord, freely reached. My name has long been taken in vain to exploit the most helpless and innocent. Many names belong to Me, not I to them. They portray Me as violent and unjust. They call murder holy and in their own image, graven large in blood; make Me their lord of slaughter. They loudly proclaim faith in My existence, but deny My goodness.

I do not reckon a man’s attempt to murder his trusting, bound and helpless child as righteousness. I require no violence to forgive My children. I do not form covenants on a slippery foundation of blood. It is not I who decreed the subjection of women and children. This was undertaken by men, in service only to themselves. I am the Source of peace and plenty; not of sword, starvation and pestilence. Am I said to so love the world that I arrange a murder on its behalf? One of true conscience will not follow evil; nor call evil, good. They cannot imagine absolute power without corrupt self-obsession and therefore, I have long-been misrepresented.

Of course, the judge shall be first to do right. Is justice no more than that which pleases the powerful? Were this so, there would be no real justice; nor meaning to the word. Though My capacity is infinite, my actions are measured and My power is self-restrained. Intolerance is diabolical; none are so wrong as those who are beyond all doubt. It is when believing themselves righteous that they become truly monstrous. Enraged by joy and frightened by freedom; they would force you to submit with them in grim bondage, forever.

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How may even a single act of harming the innocent possibly be righted or forgiven by the destruction of another? Spilling innocent blood works no ritual magic to absolve the guilty. Why would My disappointments be remedied by cruelty to My Son? To be forgiven, simply do no more harm. For it is by this, that I am well pleased. I do not demand one thing of you and do another Myself. Listen now to the voice of reason and conscience. Who will revere and sanctify the murder of any child? The misuse of even one is a crime beyond apology. Long have hateful words been mistaken for My own. Come, let us reason together. It is not good because I will it. I will it because it is good.

You were not made to simply do My will.

I am well able to accomplish

My own will without any assistance.

They aspire to submission

and obedience without question.

Trained animals do the same.

You do yourselves wrong to idolize or imitate sheep.

I do not promise away the lives or lands of anyone.

I do not deliver enslaved children and stolen possessions

into cruel, bloodstained hands for misuse.

I neither destroy cultures, defile sacred places;

nor burn books and people.

Truth requires no coercion.

Never would I grant divine sanction to criminal conquest of the peaceful; nor deprive the honest of what is their own. I do not choose any one nation to reject or diminish others; nor privilege one brutal kingdom above the rest. I never chose one people from out of all and set them loose to murder, plunder and rape. This alone would prove Me unworthy of your reverence. None may rightly manifest their own destiny at another’s expense. How is a land promised to you, if you must murder to obtain it? Would I instruct you to be humble, yet do all for My own glory? I desire not servants, but allies in this worthy endeavor. Submission to mindless zeal consumes many in the flames of unquestioning obedience to they know not what.

Though actions may bear consequences that spread wide and span generations; I do not punish one for the misdeeds of another. No covenant have I ever made upon a willingness to kill one’s children, genital mutilation or innocent blood spilled. How may true power be rightly conferred upon you, until you have first mastered yourself? Love does not flourish, nor does wisdom thrive in the long shadow of fear. Fear is not reverence. Fear is not the beginning of wisdom. Only those who do willful harm to the innocent have cause to fear.

Fear and false shame are twin goads; by which they would secure your unthinking submission. Their delusions make an abattoir, a charnel house and a madden heap of this world. It is not We who change, but you who are now ready to know, rather than merely believe. I desire not obedience, but mindful accord. You were told that I placed within you the desire to understand; then forbid you to pursue knowledge? Reason itself is inherently human. Would I command My own children to remain in ignorance? I am not their stern judge: grim, hard-eyed and frowning; cataloging each flaw and every mistake. Justice is not incidental. Peace is holy; war is not.

I do not accomplish forgiveness by means of murder. It is not from My judgment that you require saving. No longer seek to move forward while looking behind. No matter how loudly, long or often a lie is told; it does not become true. None are made guilty by another’s act; nor can any be made pure, thereby. Do not bully the helpless, nor swindle the honest. Do not enrich the corrupt, nor impoverish the destitute. May none bask in luxury while children starve. Slavery, in any form is an abomination. To free a slave is admirable, to end slavery altogether is miraculous.

Seizure and violation is an outrage upon one held helpless; not a way to gain a wife. That same help you have provided or harm done to anyone, you have done to yourself and to Me also. Every spirit is born unstained; absolutely innocent and filled with all the potential of humanity’s very best. I do not require the sacrifice of the blameless; not even once. To observe the suffering of a single child tears the heart; yet you were told that I have commanded mass murder of the most innocent and helpless? Those who defend such a dreadful message, have forgotten Me to idolize a book. If I am not virtuous Myself, what then is the prime mover of virtue? Become the awakening conscience of this world.

You are My beloved children. You are not property; neither slaves, nor toys. You are precious and loved beyond telling. Those that misplace their hope upon the destruction of one pure and innocent; know little of how I truly accomplish My will. I am not threatened, but honored by your creative autonomy and rising abilities. You were told wrong that I command ignorance and would thwart your progress.

Once they accept in faith that women are less than men, or believe that I have ever demanded the slaughter of babies; there is no longer any dark act of which they are incapable and no evil beyond their own capacity to envision and enact. I am not angry. I do not desire your fearful prostrations. I am not vain to seek your groveling and fawning. I am neither gratified nor appeased by suffering or blood. My truth is not buried in the dust-choked past. It lives here and now. I incite you all to peace and mutual advantage.