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%THOU SHALT NOT 780408
Legalists tend to violate the following
prohibitions:
1. Thou shalt not excommunicate anybody for any
reason, for God is a God of love which is the power to
unconditionally keep open all channels of communication.
2. Thou shalt not seek to earn love or salvation,
(or offer them conditionally), for God as a God of love
offers both unconditionally to all who are willing to
accept them, and commands his creatures to serve as
suffering servants in like manner.
3. Thou shalt not impose upon others unwelcomed
advice, help, gifts, or friendship, for God wills that his
creatures be free to be true to themselves and each other.
4. Thou shalt not ask others to be more vulnerable
to you, than you are willing to be vulnerable to them, for
God wills that we love each other---and an imbalance of
vulnerability does violence to love.
5. Thou shalt not violate other persons' integrity:
whether physical, affectional, sexual, psychological,
emotional, intellectual, social, economic, or spiritual;
for God wills that we be whole---as one with God.
6. Thou shalt not presume to have God's power and
try to do for him what you think is his business, for God
transcends our understandings of good and evil.
7. Thou shalt not presume to know the difference
between good and evil, for that presumption tempts us to
excommunicate those who commit evil in our eyes.
8. Thou shalt not deprive some persons of what is
needful to them (in order to be especially kind to
others), for God's will is that we love each other and
share prudently in our fortunes and misfortunes.
9. Thou shalt not try to create a society which is
devoid of injustice, suffering, or evil, for not even God
in his infinite wisdom attempts to do so.
10. Thou shalt not attempt to control other
persons': needs, desires, feelings, body-language,
friendships, private behavior, perceptions, language,
thoughts, dialogue, speech, writing, reading, or values;
for God made us to fulfill our unique potentials, not to
conform to some standard pattern.
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