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In very practical terms, I believe that our “rewards” and “punishments” are determined within what we become. In other words, in the end, we will BE our own reward or punishment – with grace / the Atonement providing the leeway allowed for us to muddle around and make mistakes as we become.
I agree. To add to that…
I don’t feel that we are magically transformed at some point in time, that we suddenly and radically change into someone we are not or never were. We are always as we are. While in the illusion of time, we change and develop, like a living story unfolding. This is one tool for approaching the mysterious name of God — I am. When asked for a name, a way of labeling their self, the universe (God) replied “I am the great becoming.” In that regard, being a fragment of this divine being (the metaphor of a child), “we are.”
From the perspective of eliminating time, a phenomenon experience by mortals, we already are who we are. We have always been who we are. We are discovering what that is in our processes of living a life (or perhaps lives).
So yeah, I don’t think we are rewarded or punished by God. I think we experience enlightenment or suffering at our own hands.
Old-Timer wrote:In very practical terms, I believe that our “rewards” and “punishments” are determined within what we become.
That would suggest there are universal laws and truth that we are all up against, and our actions against such determine reward or punishment, not some Supreme Being imposing them on us…does that correctly support your statement?John Milton in Paradise Lost described Satan speaking to himself, saying “Which way I fly is hell…myself am hell”….
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