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>On 24 Aug 2007, Deborah noemail.com> wrote in
>talk.religion.course-miracle:
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>> Even more interesting than her journals are some of the comments at
>> this site. Tom is right. I would say "You haven't suffered enough"
>> to reach the highest you can. It does take suffering. No one who has
>> not suffered and suffered deeply, can have compassion.
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>> http://www.npr.org/blogs/news/2007/08/mother_teresas_spiritual_crisi_1.
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>Are you sure you aren't a Catholic? Because this isn't the Course view at
>all. Reaching as high as you can is a matter of returning to what God
>created. Suffering is not essential for the Atonement: "The Crucifixion
>did NOT establish the Atonement. The Resurrection did. This is a point
>which many very sincere Christians have misunderstood. Nobody who was
>free of the scarcity-fallacy could POSSIBLY have made this mistake."
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>To say we must suffer to reach as high as we can is the scarcity fallacy,
>according to this. Something is lacking, and must be *paid for*. That
>payment is due only makes sense with a belief in scarcity.