Resenting the law of gravity will not keep a person from falling if one steps off a cliff. If the cause be not good, the kind himself has a heavy reckoning to make. Believing there is a principle, intelligence, or consciousness governing all things fosters a feeling of security, being on top of the World, and can allow one to display a great deal of affection and charm. Individuals also understands the laws, or at least some of the laws. Individuals also apply faith, consciousness, and spiritual conviction to the solution of human problems. This is what is meant by spiritual mind treatment. The basis or pure concept is that there is an absolute intelligence in the Universe—one, undivided, birthless, deathless, changeless reality. Every person’s soul is one’s own. And that is why it is God’s will that we be free men and women, enabled to rise to our full potential, both temporally and spiritually. When things turn bad, there is usually a tendency to blame others or even God sometimes. In many cases, a sense of entitlement arises, and individuals or groups try to shift responsibility for their welfare to other people or to the government. In spiritual matters, some suppose that men and women need not strive for personal righteousness—because God loves and saves us just as we are. #RandolphHarris 1 of 5

However, God intends that his children act according to the moral agency he has given them, that every person may be accountable for one’s own sins in the day of judgment. It is God’s plan and his will that we have the principal decision-making role in our own life’s drama. God will not live our lives for us nor control us as if we were his puppets, as the adversary prosed to do. Nor will we accept the role of puppet master (a person, group, or country that covertly controls another with actions and thoughtfully assembled words, usually with a commanding or guilt-inducing voice inflection as his or her weapon) in God’s place. God wants us to be good people and to try and live right and respect the laws of the land. God also will not make us do something we do not choose by our actions to become. Truly, God loves us, and because he loves us, he neither compels nor abandons us. Rather, God helps and guides us. Indeed, the real manifestation of God’s love is his commandments. Therefore, the cosmos is reflected in, or manifested by or through, the individual. We are the personification of the infinite, governed by the same laws. However, we are more than law; we are consciousness. The opportunity to assume personal responsibility is a God-given gift, which will help us realize our full potential.  #RandolphHarris 2 of 5

God did not put us on Earth so we would be like the only corn on the cob in a pig pen. We should (and we do) rejoice in the God-ordained plan that permits us to make choices to act for ourselves and experience the consequences that we may know to prize the good. The application of the principles of such a religion to our everyday problems is just as necessary as that there must be a practical application of those theories for them to be of value. It is not enough merely to abstract our thought and announce an infinite, for the infinite can never at any time mean more to us than the use we make of it. Just as electricity can never mean more to us than the use we make of it. This is true of any and all principles of nature. We can choose to become the kind of person that we will, and with God’s help, that can be even as he is. Because there is an infinite creative intelligence which makes things out of itself by itself, the creative genius of the Universal mind is also the creative genius of its individualization, which we all call human beings. You are a child of Almighty God, created to grow, move forward, increase, and constantly break the barriers of the past and advance God’s Kingdom. #RandolphHarris 3 of 5

If we learn this principle of stretching and not settling, then we will see the fullness of what God has in store and make it all the way to our Promised Land. God created us, and he put seeds of increase on the inside. We were never made to reach one level and stop. We were created to grow, to move forward, and to increase. We should constantly be breaking the barriers of the past, taking new ground for our families, and advancing God’s Kingdom. Because of God’s grace, our failures to live the celestial law perfectly and consistently in morality can be erased if we repent and make a conscious decision not to commit that sin anymore. Justice demands, however, that none of this happen without our willing agreement and participation. It has ever been so. Our very presence on Earth as physical beings is the consequence of a choice each of us made to participate in our Heavenly Father’s plan. Thus, salvation is certainly not the result of divine whim, but neither does it happen by a divine will alone. Justice is an essential attribute of God. We can have faith in God because he is perfectly trustworthy. We rely on the divine quality of justice for faith, confidence, and hope. #RandolphHarris 4 of 5

Most of the great intellectual geniuses who have ever lived have proclaimed these truths. However, as a consequence of being perfectly just, there are some things God cannot do. God cannot be arbitrary in saving some and banishing others. He wants us all to have a chance, and that is why there is sometimes suffering in the World, even good people suffer. Nevertheless, God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance. God cannot allow mercy to rob justice. We believe in God, the living spirit Almighty. God is indestructible, absolute, and a self-existent cause. The manifest Universe is the body of God; it is the logical and necessary outcome of the infinite self-knowingness of God. We believe in the eternality, the immortality, and the continuity of the individual soul, forever and ever expanding. The ultimate goal of life is to be completely emancipated from all discord of every nature, and this is the goal to be obtained by all. We believe in the unity of life, and that the highest God is personal for all who feel this indwelling presence. God enables us to retain responsibility for ourselves. Repentance respects and sustains our moral agency, and it part of the great and eternal plan of redemption. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5