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Here's another quote from a different message that gives me pause:

as for those who call themselves Mine yet are offensive when it comes to spiritual matters, I tell them: "if you were blind you would not be guilty, but since you say, 'we see and can tell', your guilt remains!" how many times will I have to reproach them for their incredulity and obstinacy?

That's painting with a fairly wide brush for our world. Plenty of guilty to raise their hands to that one, but speaking only for my own wretched self, sadly, mine is raised very high.

The central theme, to me, seems to be about those who know the Law, but don't get or live the Love, as He says here:

it is because you have not the Holy Spirit who could have risen you from darkness into His Light enlightening your soul to see the Son together with the Father manifesting themselves to you;

I think He is saying that we have to have both, the Father and the Son, the Law and the Love, and one without the error leads to error.

For whatever reason(s), people can't get their heads around Jesus' truth, then or now, me included. From experience, I know that this requires something else, something beyond rational thought.

From a practical standpoint, what good is a tool if you never use it? What good is a belief if you never apply it?

And, you can tell just by people watching over time. People do what they mean, regardless of what they say they mean, and the inner light they follow is obvious by how someone "is".

Anyway, that's my evolving understanding from watching people and comparing what I see and have seen to what little I understand about what I've read so far.

To any who might be offended by the quotes I posted, I sincerely regret that you are offended. That is not my intent.