I believe in one God; He asks us to look on Him, in Hebrew or Aramaic, as "Abba," "Dear Father," or "Daddy!" This one God is the Creator of the Universe. The Father sent an Incarnation of Himself to Earth in the Son, and became a new and separate being only because of the physical nature He assumed; spiritually, the two remained One. The Son took on our nature as humans and was persecuted for His ministry, which was both miraculous and peaceful. He was given over to the Romans by His own religious leaders for execution because He exposed their corruption; He was tortured, crucified, died, and was buried. He rose again from the dead, even as He Himself had brought people miraculously back to life. He witnessed to His friends and relatives and asked them to perpetuate His teaching; He asked for peace, concern for others, and acceptance of all; especially the poor and the destitute. Then began two thousand years of arguments and armed conflicts about what He said, and countless books were written about how He said it and what He meant by it: peace, concern for others, and the acceptance of all. The Son returned to His Father in another dimension transcendent of space and time called Heaven, and their spirit, called the Holy Spirit, was left in our world for the comfort of our spirits and bodies. This gift must be accepted freely and on faith alone; if it is accepted, one can find peace, concern, and acceptance from God. In death, we will all be united in spirit with God and one another and the entirety of Creation, past, present, and future; indeed, the entire Universe will be our Heaven. I believe Christ wanted one Church, but Himself recognized and foresaw the division and dissension it would endure: "I came not to bring peace, but to set parents against children, brother against brother;" this was to ensure that we all might exercise our free will and worship as we saw fit. I do believe that He was born of a virgin human being purposefully to signify His divinity; and that astrologers of both far more ancient times and the time in which He was born recognized and acknowledged His birth. I believe the Bible is myth and analogy meant to tell the human story of their own relationship, as they perceived it, to God. It was written by men and, over the centuries, many have edited, copied, contributed to, and changed it. Since those times, man has embraced philosophical truths that reveal that the negativity and guilt contained in some scripture, are not conducive to good; therefore: those who added to scripture also added both good and evil attributes unto God; this is not possible, God is good, it is men who are corrupted by evil, not God. Most Biblical teachings have a good moral message but, especially in the Old Testament, they are laden with cycles of guilt, culpability, and punishment; this is common to ancient peoples and their superstitious ness; however, Christ's mission was directly opposed; He said God wished for mankind peace, concern for others, and acceptance of all. I believe that He will eventually return to Earth and bring about these positive things; afterward, He will take all who believe in Him to become spiritual beings like Himself. I believe that He asked that, when we commemorate Him, we do so with a traditional grain (bread) and wine offering of Jewish heritage commemorating the unleavened bread and lamb's blood of the Passover, and that we do so together in groups of fellowship. The bread and wine now, however, represent His Body and Blood as offered in sacrifice in His execution; when properly done, this is meant to comfort us that our sin is forgiven, and increase our emotional and spiritual health. He also wished for us a life in community to provide for one another support and encouragement, and to conspire to help those less fortunate than ourselves. We should Baptize those who freely ask to be, in remembrance of ritual bathing and the outward sign of an inward change in their lives; and to signify solidarity. I believe that, in Christ, God will forgive any and all sin that may have come to be defined by men over the centuries; I define sin as opposing the principles Jesus hoped to instill, namely, peace, concern for others, and acceptance of all. All will come before God's throne and have the opportunity to throw themselves upon His mercy and ask that Christ's blood, shed on the cross, be the payment for their sin. I believe that all those who die for their belief in Him are rewarded with power to comfort those of us who have not yet died. I believe that all who confess their faith in Him will live eternally as a being of light and energy; one, single, collective consciousness; this is God. All this energy, and the matter that is unendingly interchanged with it in the Universe, was created in a single, giant release of matter and energy that man defines as "The Big Bang."
