The Bible: Psychological Simplicity, Not Religious Complexity
Before it was ever a religious text, the Bible was a psychological map.
Its stories, laws, and figures symbolise inner movements—shifts of consciousness, changes in assumption, and the invisible battles of the mind.
To read it literally is to miss the point.
To read it psychologically is to unlock its power.
The Bible is not a rulebook but a record of how your inner world creates your outer one.
It deals not with external behaviours but with internal states—of faith, imagination, fear, and love.
When Scripture Is Misused
Few things cut deeper than weaponised scripture.
For centuries, verses like 1 John 3:4–7 have been quoted in spiritual warfare to shame, frighten, and control.
They’ve been twisted to suggest that sin is proof of unworthiness, that imperfection is damnable, and that righteousness is reserved for the few who appear flawless.
But the original message is nothing of the sort.
Sin, as the Bible Defines It: A Condition, Not a Curse
The Bible itself quietly defines sin in the earliest chapters.
Look to Genesis 4:7 (BBE):
“If you do well, will you not be lifted up? and if you do not do well, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to get control over you: but you are to get the better of it.”
Here, “if you do well” can be understood as imagining pleasurably—living from a place of positive, creative imagining. It is the call to align your inner world with joy and constructive faith.
In the story of Cain and Abel, this is the moment where Cain is invited to shift his imagination from jealousy and frustration to pleasure and faith.
He is told that if he imagines rightly, he will be “lifted up”—raised to a higher state of consciousness and fulfilment.
But “sin” here is the lurking condition—negative imagining—“waiting at the door,” ready to take control if he fails to “do well.”
This sin is not a moral stain but a lost opportunity to live from the creative power within.
Sin never meant moral failure.
Sin never meant wickedness or a stain on the soul.
Sin is simply missing the mark—failing to live in alignment with the truth of who you are.
What Is the Law Being Broken?
1 John 3:4 (BBE)
“Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.”
But what is this law?
Not the law of commandments written in stone—but the Law of Consciousness.
Sin is not about breaking external rules.
It’s about turning away from the truth that your own wonderful human imagination is God.
Neville Goddard puts it clearly:
“Sin is the refusal to imagine lovingly. It is the failure to live by faith in your own wonderful human imagination.”
Jesus: The Living Law of Assumption in Action
When the Bible says Jesus “came to take away sin,” it’s not speaking of a historical figure arriving from outside.
Jesus represents a state of awareness—the awakened consciousness that lives fully in the law of assumption.
This state is the inner recognition that your imagination is reality’s creative force.
To “be in Jesus” means to dwell in the fulfilled desire, to assume the end and live from that assumption.
Jesus is the embodiment of that powerful awareness—the living proof that sin (missing the mark) can be overcome by simply changing your inner state.
1 John 3:5 (BBE)
“And you have knowledge that he came to take away sin: and in him there is no sin.”
He came—or better said, He is—the revelation of a sinless state.
In this awareness, there is no sin, because there is no misalignment.
To “abide in Him” means to live from the fulfilled desire.
It is not perfection—it is position.
1 John 3:6 (BBE)
“Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.”
You do not see Him when you identify with lack, fear, or failure.
You see Him when you dwell in your assumed end.
When you live in the wish fulfilled, you are in Him—and in that state, you are not missing the mark.
1 John 3:7 (BBE)
“My little children, let no man put you wrong: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright.”
To do righteousness is not to act perfectly.
It is to think and live from the state you choose to embody.
It is to feel the truth of your new identity so deeply that it becomes your reality.
Neville would say:
“You are already what you want to be, and your refusal to believe this is the only reason you do not see it.”
You Are Not Condemned—You Are Called
This passage does not condemn—it awakens.
It doesn’t accuse you of being shameful.
It calls you to rise.
You are righteous the moment you believe you are.
You are sinless the moment you imagine rightly.
You are redeemed not by blood, but by assumption.
There is no wrath here.
Only awakening.
No threat.
Only invitation.
Sin has no hold on the one who knows who they are.
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