PREDESTINATION
"For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate." God foreknows His own perfection and the perfection of His entire creation, so it is foreknown and predetermined by the Divine Mind that all shall be sons of God. Man cannot forever keep himself from his birthright; all will eventually be saved from themselves,—as there can be no such thing as eternal damnation. To believe in such an absurd doctrine is worse than ignorance. Emerson tells us that there is no sin but ignorance.
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God knows only perfection; when we know as God knows, our troubles will be rolled up like a scroll and numbered with past illusions.
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