Harvey to God:
Dear G-d, I have several questions that I would like to ask You but please understand that no disrespect is meant on ANY level.
1. In these days of channeling where many claim to be channeling angels, aliens from other dimensions, souls "on the other side", Ra and many others, how is one to know if You truly are the one true "Personal G-d" or some entity speaking on "His" behalf?
2. I have always wanted to ask a question about the Ten Commandments. Although pretty straightforward, do these commandments somehow interfere with a human's free will and the need to learn through trial and error?
I Love You, Harvey
God:
Dear Harvey, I never feel disrespected. If you had My vision, you would not either. I know your deepest heart, and I know that pure love is there so how could I see anything else?
Respect and disrespect in the world, wherever they seem to exist, dear Harvey, are forms, or performance, and are unknown in Heaven where all is pure light and pure love. I could say to you that I do not know what respect and disrespect are. I know what My children think they are. They think respect and disrespect have to do with their self-worth, and I, as with everything, know better.
In the world, as you know, someone may act respectfully and be acting against his truth. In fact, that is taught.
It is better that respect comes from the heart. In any case, someone's appearance of respect or disrespect has nothing to do with you. I say this, dear Harvey, because you bring up the question of respect, and I know your sensitivity. I know how respectfully you treat all, and that the same is not always accorded to you.
Someone's moods, ill manners, ignorance have no more to do with you than someone's good moods, good manners, and good sense do. Will you remember that, My dear Harvey? Remember Me.
I will take your second question first.
Following the Ten Commandments is like respect and disrespect, Harvey. Following them without the love and awareness behind them is a performance.
The real thing is to not feel to murder or steal or covet and so on. You would only do those things because you feel cheated. You feel gypped. You feel lack. You feel underprivileged and owed something. That jewelry is yours, or it should be yours. You (not you, Harvey, one) may even feel he is owed a man's life in retaliation, or that he is in the way of your dream and therefore must forfeit his life, and so on.
You break the Ten Commandments either because of something you don't have that you want, or because of interference you do have that you don't want. These are the feelings behind the feeling that you must steal or whatever.
There are many who have felt anger so deep and vast and strong that they can understand the impulses of one who commits murder. I will go so far as to say that all hate is a murderous impulse. At least, temporarily, you want that person, that object of your hate, to be gone. You want to destroy him or hurt him back as you feel you have been hurt.
The Ten Commandments, as written, are a guide. A checklist.
When My child knows he is Mine, when he knows that everyone is himself and not separate from him, when he knows that he can enjoy another's happiness, and that it is the same as his own, when he knows that love is allowed, when he knows that he is love, and that I love him, and he is under My protection, and that he is My messenger of love, where could impulse to hurt another or take away from another lie in him?
I would like to add another commandment. It would be: Look for signs of love. That will lead you to generous behavior.
You asked if the Ten Commandments take away your free will. I will say: Your free will, My children, is to love. If you are feeling other than love, your free will has been taken from you, or you have given it away, covered it up with reaction to events and people outside you. Your free will is not to steal or murder. Your free will is to love.
When one commits murder or lusts after another's wife, he is controlled by hate and lust, and knows not freedom or free will. It is not with free will that one hurts another. The hurter is caught in something. He is caught up in something, but definitely not in free will.
Free will is the same as My Will, Harvey.
Life is easier for you when you live by the Ten Commandments than when you don't. And yet life cannot be lived by rules alone. In fact, it has been My observation that the Ten Commandments are not exactly adhered to anyway.
And I do not know how well My children learn by trial and error. Enough lifetimes, and you do.
Gloria is offering great resistance to My saying this, but say it I will. The Ten Commandments are man-made. From good intent and sincerity, but they are like No Smoking signs, No Littering etc.
I would not make Ten Commandments. I am not a Commander. I am a God of Love not commandments. I do not even command you to love. I offer you love. I recommend it.
Let's call the Ten Commandments Ten Recommendations for living well in the world. They have to do with the ordering of society. They are good suggestions. I am in favor of them.
But I am more in favor of your rising to a place in My heart where the activities banned could not be considerations for you in the first place.
They would be like jokes to you, they would be so inconceivable.
I am a God of Yes, not shalt not's. That is enough for now. I will answer your first question tomorrow.