Go and Sin No More    We are all familiar with Jesus's words "go and sin no more" spoken to Mary Magdalene and probably see it as an instruction on how to live the rest of our lives after an encounter with Christ. But how easy do we find that to do? And is there another meaning that might have value for those on this group who are on their own specific healing quest? This is from a discussion on another group on what these words meant coming from a Christ who personfied God's unconditional love and loved us as his Father does. The ideas may not fit exactly what you were taught before, but they are presented here not to provoke a debate, but to give you another way of seeing what Christ might have meant, in the hope that it might help you in your own healing. The question was what does " go and sin no more" mean coming from the unconditional love of Christ? One respondent said. " You know, I see this a little differently because I experienced a spontaneous healing.  I just *poof* went from near death, to fully healed.  I think that's what Jesus did with whomever he said the above statement to (Mary Magdalene if I remember correctly).  I don't think it was an admonishment, or an order, or a threat, or a condition.  I think it was just healing words-literally- and the person on the other end was healed of any thoughts of "sin".  They were healed, period.  The choice to sin, was removed by the words, by the healing is what I mean.  Another replied   " I guess I don't quite get what you mean by "healing words", unless they convey an action of mind to the patient. Certainly not an admonishment, but an instruction to be sure. Dis-Ease is always a choice, and so is healing. That it's a choice is sometimes all that a mind needs to hear. Everything is a choice, is the first discovery of a healed mind. Jesus couldn't have healed a mind that didn't want to be healed. Nothing can but a new decision to heal in that mind. But because of that, "dis-ease" when seen correctly, is an opportunity to choose healing.   Though the expression was said to have been spoken by Jesus on several occasions, the New Testiment only records the one. Not surpising in that the gospels as they are assembled in the Bible were derived from a common source. Too bad that the use of the expression is in the context of a "prostitute", and associated by most with her choice of profession, rather than her own guilty view of herself.  Guilt is the source of all confusion. The story takes the foolishness of judging another for their mistakes to the next level. "He who is without sin should cast the first stone". The woman was just a prop, but then He said "where are your accusers?"  And she said "No man", and must have understood that her condemnation came from herself.       That was her healing   God Bless