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<big>God is the Creator of the universe and the source of [[Knowledge]] in all sentient beings.
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<big>''God is the Creator of the universe and the source of [[Knowledge]] in all sentient beings.''<!--composed by a member of the Society-->
  
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'''"God is the experience of total relationship."'''
 
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<ref name="gcs1">''Greater Community Spirituality'', Chapter 1: [http://www.newmessage.org/what-is-god-3 What Is God?]
 
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"God permeates all things, lives within all things and yet is beyond all things—all at the same time." <ref name="cg"/>
 
"God permeates all things, lives within all things and yet is beyond all things—all at the same time." <ref name="cg"/>
  
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God "is the Source and Author of your life and of all life within this world and throughout the Greater Community of worlds in which you live." <ref name="cg">''The One God'', Chapter 1: [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/one-god/comprehending-god Comprehending God]</ref>
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"What is God? It could be said that God is the sum of all relationships. God is the consummation of all relationships." <ref>''Relationships & Higher Purpose'', Chapter 1: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/relationships-higher-purpose/your-most-primary-relationship Your Most Primary Relationship]</ref>
  
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“God is so close to you that you cannot even turn around. God is so big and so magnificent that if you had only one leg and one arm and God, you would do well.”
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==God is==
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"What is God? It could be said that God is the sum of all relationships. God is the consummation of all relationships." <ref>''Relationships & Higher Purpose'', Chapter 1: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/relationships-higher-purpose/your-most-primary-relationship Your Most Primary Relationship]</ref>
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"God is the experience of total relationship."
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<ref name="gcs1">''Greater Community Spirituality'', Chapter 1: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-4/greater-community-spirituality/what-is-god What Is God?]</ref>
  
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[[File:Heaven.jpeg|right|Rays]]
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“God is so close to you that you cannot even turn around. God is so big and so magnificent that if you had only one leg and one arm and God, you would do well.”
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==The Presence of God==
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<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 1, Chapter 31: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-1/healing Healing]</ref>
  
 
“God is here. Yet no one can be still. Relationship is here. Yet no one can feel it. Your Teachers are with you, but your eyes are moving too fast.”
 
“God is here. Yet no one can be still. Relationship is here. Yet no one can feel it. Your Teachers are with you, but your eyes are moving too fast.”
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<ref>[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1/ ''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'',] Chapter 20: Inner Listening</ref>
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<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 1, Chapter 20: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-1/inner-listening Inner Listening]</ref>
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"The experience of God directly is the experience of all relationships at once."<ref>[[Secrets of Heaven]], Secret 44</ref>
 
  
 
[[File:Step69-EllenMitchell.jpg|left]]
 
[[File:Step69-EllenMitchell.jpg|left]]
  
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“The Presence of God is first experienced as emptiness because it lacks movement, and then within this emptiness, you begin to feel the Presence that permeates all things and that gives all meaning in life.”
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God "is the Source and Author of your life and of all life within this world and throughout the Greater Community of worlds in which you live." <ref name="cg">''The One God'', Chapter 1: [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/one-god/comprehending-god Comprehending God]</ref>
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<ref>''Steps to Knowledge'', [https://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step69-Today-I-will-practice-stillness.htm Step 69: Today I will practice stillness.]</ref>
 
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“God’s Presence is permanent. The world itself is temporary. The physical universe is temporary. God’s Presence is permanent. Can you then see what is great and what is small? Can you then see that which gives and that which must learn to receive? Can you then realize the [[importance]] of your preparation? Can you then realize the importance of your service in the world?”
 
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<ref>''Steps to Knowledge'', [https://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step339-The-presence-of-love-is-with-me-now.htm Step 339: The presence of love is with me now.]</ref>
 
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== The Nature of God ==
 
  
 
"Knowledge is God in you. God is Knowledge in the universe."<ref>[http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1 ''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I''], Chapter 29: Faith and Fear</ref>
 
"Knowledge is God in you. God is Knowledge in the universe."<ref>[http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1 ''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I''], Chapter 29: Faith and Fear</ref>
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“As [[Knowledge]] is the Mind behind your [[the Mind|mind]], so there is a Mind behind your Knowledge, and this Mind is God.”
 
“As [[Knowledge]] is the Mind behind your [[the Mind|mind]], so there is a Mind behind your Knowledge, and this Mind is God.”
 
<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'', Chapter 19: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1/fulfillment Fulfillment ]</ref>
 
<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'', Chapter 19: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1/fulfillment Fulfillment ]</ref>
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==God is not ==
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"God has no wrath."
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<ref name="eow"/>
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"God is not capable of anger."
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<ref>''Relationships & Higher Purpose'', Chapter 8: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/relationships-higher-purpose/problem-evil The Problem of Evil and the Forces of Dissonance]</ref>
  
 
"God is not a person or a personage or a personality or a singular awareness. To think like this is to underestimate the Creator and to overestimate yourself."
 
"God is not a person or a personage or a personality or a singular awareness. To think like this is to underestimate the Creator and to overestimate yourself."
 
<ref>''God Has Spoken Again'', Chapter 2: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/god-spoken-again/the-recitation The Recitation]</ref>
 
<ref>''God Has Spoken Again'', Chapter 2: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/god-spoken-again/the-recitation The Recitation]</ref>
  
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==God's Plan to end separation==
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"God does not understand religion. God did not create religion. God only knows God. And because God only knows God, then God attracts you because you are part of God."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 1, Chapter 21: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-1/enduring-happiness Enduring Happiness]</ref>
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==God knows==
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"There is nothing in the universe that God is not aware of."
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<ref>''The Greater Community'', [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/greater-community/human-unity Chapter 4: Entering the Greater Community]</ref>
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“God knows what humanity needs even though humanity remains confused. God knows what is coming for the human family even though the human family is obsessed with its past. God knows that humanity must unite in the face of great danger even though people continue their conflicts and continue their admonitions against one another. What God knows and what people believe are not the same.”
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<ref>[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/other-revelations/the-message-and-the-messenger The Message and the Messenger (January 26, 2008)]</ref>
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"God loves humanity. God is not angry with humanity. God knows exactly what humanity is prone to do under difficult circumstances, so God provides what is necessary to guide the human family, without taking from you your own responsibility as an individual, as a citizen and as a member of a group or a nation."
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<ref name="eow">[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/other-revelations/the-engine-of-war The Engine of War] (April 17, 2008)</ref>
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==God's Presence==
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"God permeates all things, lives within all things and yet is beyond all things—all at the same time." <ref name="cg"/>
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“God’s Presence is permanent. The world itself is temporary. The physical universe is temporary. God’s Presence is permanent. Can you then see what is great and what is small? Can you then see that which gives and that which must learn to receive? Can you then realize the [[importance]] of your preparation? Can you then realize the importance of your service in the world?”
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<ref>''Steps to Knowledge'', [https://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step339-The-presence-of-love-is-with-me-now.htm Step 339: The presence of love is with me now.]</ref>
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==God's Plan==
  
 
“The Creator uses everything for a greater purpose. The Creator does not come in and destroy the wicked and take control of everyone and everything and force a unity that people would resist and could not choose for themselves. Instead, everything is set in motion for [[redemption]], for reunion, for [[contribution]], for empowerment, for [[forgiveness]], for true recognition.”
 
“The Creator uses everything for a greater purpose. The Creator does not come in and destroy the wicked and take control of everyone and everything and force a unity that people would resist and could not choose for themselves. Instead, everything is set in motion for [[redemption]], for reunion, for [[contribution]], for empowerment, for [[forgiveness]], for true recognition.”
 
<ref>''Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training'', Step 13: I give myself to my practice today.</ref>
 
<ref>''Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training'', Step 13: I give myself to my practice today.</ref>
  
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''see also'' [[The Greater Plan]] and [[God's Plan]]
 
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==The will of God==
 
 
“People are very adamant that God should come and make the world exactly the way they want it, but God has other plans. God’s intention is to free everyone here so that they may return to their Ancient Home. So instead of making the world a perfect place for your separation to exist, God has set in motion the forces to break your separation down. Very loving this is.”
 
“People are very adamant that God should come and make the world exactly the way they want it, but God has other plans. God’s intention is to free everyone here so that they may return to their Ancient Home. So instead of making the world a perfect place for your separation to exist, God has set in motion the forces to break your separation down. Very loving this is.”
 
<ref name="wgcI4">[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1 ''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'',] Chapter 4: Trust</ref>
 
<ref name="wgcI4">[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1 ''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'',] Chapter 4: Trust</ref>
  
 
"God must enter a world where God is not welcome, in ways that do not generate [[fear]] and panic amongst those who believe [[the world]] is their only reality. It is for this reason that the Will of God manifests itself in subtle and ingenious ways in this world."<ref>''Secrets of Heaven'', Secret 5</Ref>
 
"God must enter a world where God is not welcome, in ways that do not generate [[fear]] and panic amongst those who believe [[the world]] is their only reality. It is for this reason that the Will of God manifests itself in subtle and ingenious ways in this world."<ref>''Secrets of Heaven'', Secret 5</Ref>
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''see also'' [[God's Will]]
 
  
 
==God's Purpose==
 
==God's Purpose==
  
 
“God’s Purpose here is to unburden you and prepare you for true relationship, because you will not be able to do anything in life without true [[relationship]].”
 
“God’s Purpose here is to unburden you and prepare you for true relationship, because you will not be able to do anything in life without true [[relationship]].”
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<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'', [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1/love Chapter 12: Love]</ref>
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<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 1, Chapter 12: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-1/love Love]</ref>
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“God has a Mind, a Will and a Purpose. In its totality, this is incomprehensible to you now, for you cannot stand apart from this Mind, this Will and this Purpose and be able to discern their meaning. You can only join with them, and the extent to which you can join with them will be the extent to which you will experience their reality, their value and their immediate necessity in your life.”
 
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<ref name="rhp1">''Relationships & Higher Purpose'', [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/relationships-higher-purpose/your-most-primary-relationship Chapter 1: Your Most Primary Relationship]</ref>
 
  
 
"What gives your Being purpose, meaning and direction is its service to God. And what gives God purpose, meaning and direction is God’s expression through all things that can express God."
 
"What gives your Being purpose, meaning and direction is its service to God. And what gives God purpose, meaning and direction is God’s expression through all things that can express God."
 
<ref>''Relationships & Higher Purpose'', [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/relationships-higher-purpose/your-relationship-with-yourself Chapter 2: Your Relationship with Yourself]</ref>
 
<ref>''Relationships & Higher Purpose'', [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/relationships-higher-purpose/your-relationship-with-yourself Chapter 2: Your Relationship with Yourself]</ref>
  
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==The omniscience of God==
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“God is only interested in re-establishing [[communication]] with you. That is all that matters because that is the universe. What can you hope to accomplish here without that? Your span of years is quite brief. Your environment is far more powerful than you are, or seemingly so. There are countless adversities to undermine your progress. There must be something else. This then is where your trust must be directed.”
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"There is nothing in the universe that God is not aware of."
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<ref name="wgcI4"/>
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<ref>''The Greater Community'', [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/greater-community/human-unity Chapter 4: Entering the Greater Community]</ref>
 
  
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“God knows what humanity needs even though humanity remains confused. God knows what is coming for the human family even though the human family is obsessed with its past. God knows that humanity must unite in the face of great danger even though people continue their conflicts and continue their admonitions against one another. What God knows and what people believe are not the same.”
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==The experience of God==
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<ref>[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/other-revelations/the-message-and-the-messenger The Message and the Messenger (January 26, 2008)]</ref>
 
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[[File:wrath.jpg|400px|left|intensity]]
 
  
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==The wrath of God ==
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“God has a Mind, a Will and a Purpose. In its totality, this is incomprehensible to you now, for you cannot stand apart from this Mind, this Will and this Purpose and be able to discern their meaning. You can only join with them, and the extent to which you can join with them will be the extent to which you will experience their reality, their value and their immediate necessity in your life.”
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"God is not capable of anger."
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<ref name="rhp1">''Relationships & Higher Purpose'', [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/relationships-higher-purpose/your-most-primary-relationship Chapter 1: Your Most Primary Relationship]</ref>
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<ref>''Relationships & Higher Purpose'', Chapter 8: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/relationships-higher-purpose/problem-evil The Problem of Evil and the Forces of Dissonance]</ref>
 
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"God has no wrath."
 
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==The absence of the Presence of God==
 
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“Your disassociation from yourself, from others and from God is primarily an issue of competition for power.”
 
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==The calling of God==
 
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"We have spoken of God as a great attraction, as a force pulling and drawing people. That is a good analogy because it allows God to be as great and as mysterious as God is. That is to acknowledge that God in the world is a force in motion. It is here to do something. It moves people to go along at Its pace. It ignites people, sets people in motion and cares for people."
 
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<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I,'' [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1/spiritual-community Chapter 13: Spiritual Community]</ref>
 
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"If God speaks again, who can respond?
 
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If God calls you to a higher service and position in life, who is willing to undergo this process of change, a process they cannot control and cannot even really understand?
 
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Who is willing and able to do this?"
 
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<ref name="gpapitw">[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/other-revelations/gods-power-in-you God’s Power and Presence in the World] (April 23, 2011)</ref>
 
  
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[[File:God the Sum medallion.jpg|right|Enter the New Message through God]]
 
 
==God and creation: god of all worlds==
 
==God and creation: god of all worlds==
  
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"You are no longer dealing with a local god, a local deity, a god of the hill and the tree, a god of the ocean and the river.
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[[File:God the Sum medallion.jpg|right|Enter the New Message through God]]
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You are not even dealing with the god of one world and one people, as you are accustomed to think.
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"You are no longer dealing with a local god, a local deity, a god of the hill and the tree, a god of the ocean and the river. You are not even dealing with the god of one world and one people, as you are accustomed to think.
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Now you are dealing with a God of all the universes and Creation beyond the universes, a God so great that your mind can only fall down in praise.
 
Now you are dealing with a God of all the universes and Creation beyond the universes, a God so great that your mind can only fall down in praise.
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Not a human God. Not a God that you create in your own imagination, but a God that you must experience at a deeper level, beneath and beyond the limits of your surface mind. For you to comprehend the God of the Greater Community, then you must comprehend the Voice of the Revelation."
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<ref>[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/other-revelations/the-voice-of-the-revelation The Voice of the Revelation] (April 14, 2011)</ref>
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Not a human God. Not a God that you create in your own imagination, but a God that you must experience at a deeper level, beneath and beyond the limits of your surface mind. For you to comprehend the God of the Greater Community, then you must comprehend [[The Voice of Revelation|the Voice of the Revelation]]."<ref>''The Time of Revelation'': [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/the-time-of-revelation/the-voice-of-the-revelation The Voice of the Revelation]</ref></blockquote>
  
 
"God is too big to be concerned with this one world. God is not a human being. God is not limited by human understanding, human psychology or human emotions."<ref name="ang"/>
 
"God is too big to be concerned with this one world. God is not a human being. God is not limited by human understanding, human psychology or human emotions."<ref name="ang"/>
  
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"In the Universe, there are trillions and trillions of races. No one Redeemer can speak to them all. No one religion could speak to them all, obviously."<ref>The Redeemer (January 18, 2010)</ref>
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"In the Universe, there are trillions and trillions of races. No one Redeemer can speak to them all. No one religion could speak to them all, obviously."<ref>''The Pure Religion'', Chapter 13: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/pure-religion/the-redeemer The Redeemer]</ref>
  
 
==God and creation: Earth and its inhabitants==
 
==God and creation: Earth and its inhabitants==
  
 
"God is moving humanity in a new direction. It is time to prepare, to receive and to support the [[Revelation]]. People will complain. They will protest. They will resist. They will accuse [[the Messenger]]. They will denounce the Revelation. Unable to respond, unwilling to reconsider their life and their ideas, they will resist. This always happens at the time of Revelation. Those who have the greatest investment in the past will resist the new world and everything in it. They cannot see. They will not know. They do not have the courage to reconsider their position. They do not have the humility to stand in the face of the Revelation. What can God do for them? They asked so much from the Creator, but they cannot respond to the Creator’s response. What can God do for them? Be amongst the first to respond so that your greater gifts in life may be established and have an opportunity to come forth in the days and the years of your life. This is the power of Revelation—to unleash wisdom and Knowledge that humanity desperately needs now to prepare for a future that will be unlike the past. The blessings are with you. The power of redemption is within you, in Knowledge within you."
 
"God is moving humanity in a new direction. It is time to prepare, to receive and to support the [[Revelation]]. People will complain. They will protest. They will resist. They will accuse [[the Messenger]]. They will denounce the Revelation. Unable to respond, unwilling to reconsider their life and their ideas, they will resist. This always happens at the time of Revelation. Those who have the greatest investment in the past will resist the new world and everything in it. They cannot see. They will not know. They do not have the courage to reconsider their position. They do not have the humility to stand in the face of the Revelation. What can God do for them? They asked so much from the Creator, but they cannot respond to the Creator’s response. What can God do for them? Be amongst the first to respond so that your greater gifts in life may be established and have an opportunity to come forth in the days and the years of your life. This is the power of Revelation—to unleash wisdom and Knowledge that humanity desperately needs now to prepare for a future that will be unlike the past. The blessings are with you. The power of redemption is within you, in Knowledge within you."
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<ref>''God Has Spoken Again'', [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/god-spoken-again/god-is-moving-humanity-in-a-new-direction Chapter 12: God Is Moving Humanity in a New Direction]</ref>
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<ref>''God Has Spoken Again'', Chapter 12: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/god-spoken-again/god-is-moving-humanity-in-a-new-direction God Is Moving Humanity in a New Direction]</ref>
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"God loves humanity. God is not angry with humanity. God knows exactly what humanity is prone to do under difficult circumstances, so God provides what is necessary to guide the human family, without taking from you your own responsibility as an individual, as a citizen and as a member of a group or a nation."
 
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<ref name="eow">[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/other-revelations/the-engine-of-war The Engine of War] (April 17, 2008)</ref>
 
  
 
“All the seeming power of your world, the forces of nature, the inevitability of your death, the ever-present threat of illness and loss and destruction, and all appearances of conflict are all temporary movements in the great stillness of God.”
 
“All the seeming power of your world, the forces of nature, the inevitability of your death, the ever-present threat of illness and loss and destruction, and all appearances of conflict are all temporary movements in the great stillness of God.”
 
<ref>''Steps to Knowledge'', [https://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step40-Today-I-will-feel-the-power-of-God.htm Step 40: Today I will feel the power of God.]</ref>
 
<ref>''Steps to Knowledge'', [https://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step40-Today-I-will-feel-the-power-of-God.htm Step 40: Today I will feel the power of God.]</ref>
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==The new God==
 
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[[File:Messier_30.jpg|left|Messier 30]]
 
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"Here [[the New God]] is the old God, unveiled and clarified, not clothed in ancient understandings or ancient mythologies. For there is only one God, and that is the God of all the universes."
 
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<ref name="tng">''The One God'', Chapter 2: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/one-god/new-god-revelation The New God Revelation]</ref>
 
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“Do you see? [[The Greater Community]] will change your ideas about God completely. It will change your ideas about [[religion]] completely. You will see that God is not preoccupied with humans. You will see that God is something bigger than what you have ever considered, and you will have to think as a participant in a Greater Reality. This is a great blessing.”
 
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<ref name="wgcI3">[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1/ ''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'',] Chapter 3: Greater Community</ref>
 
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"God did not invent your ideas and [[beliefs]]. God did not create your preferences and your [[fear]]s. God did not create the world that is a product of everyone’s preferences and fears. You cannot blame God for the social conditions of humanity. You cannot blame God for wars and cruelty, exploitation, slavery and [[poverty]]. That is all a human creation based upon greed and ignorance, based upon not enough people contributing enough to the world around them. But God did create the presence of Knowledge within you, and only God’s New Revelation makes this very clear, without an overlay of history and human interpretation to cloud your understanding. The stream is clear. The Message is pure. You are receiving it from its Source, instead of an interpretation that was made centuries later for human consumption."
 
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<ref>''The Journey to a New Life'', Chapter 6: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/journey-new-life/the-gift-of-a-new-life The Gift of a New Life]</ref>
 
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“The attempt to define God is the attempt to make God concrete. This is an attempt to make God fit in with your [[ideas]].”
 
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"Believing in God may be preliminary to knowing God, but believing and knowing are not the same. Many people claim they believe in God, either because they believe or because they are afraid not to believe. However, to know God is to come into relationship with God."
 
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<ref name="gcs9">''Greater Community Spirituality'', [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/greater-community-spirituality/false-expectations-of-god Chapter 9]: How does God participate in the world?</ref>
 
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"It is the Greater Power of [[Knowledge]]—the mystery, the evidence of things unseen—that must be the focus of your [[faith]], that must be the heart of your [[religion]], that must be the source of your encouragement, your [[wisdom]] and your guidance."
 
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<ref>''The Pure Religion'', Chapter 2: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/pure-religion/the-great-faith The Great Faith]</ref>
 
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"It could be said, for the mind’s sake, that the proof that God is real is the proof that humanity can [[love]], that humanity can [[unity|unite]], that humanity has a moral foundation, that humanity is capable of compassion, that humanity can love others when others do not love back in return, that humanity cares about the future, that individuals can act in a selfless manner, that [[Knowledge]] can emerge within an individual and guide them to live a greater life of purpose and service, engendering greater happiness and satisfaction. God is realized through this evidence: that humanity has a higher spiritual nature called Knowledge and born of Knowledge, and it is this higher spiritual nature that enables individuals to act in a selfless manner, to experience love, to share a love, to contribute to others, to address the problems of the world, to serve the world. This is the proof of God." <ref> Unpublished Revelation (July 2, 2006)</ref>
 
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“God has given this world everything it needs. Now it must use what has been given. God has given this world purpose. God has given this world evolution. God has given this world spiritual assistance of tremendous magnitude. God has planted purpose within you. God has given you life. God has given you Knowledge so that you may fulfill your part in this world at this time.”
 
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God is the Creator of the universe and the source of Knowledge in all sentient beings.

"God permeates all things, lives within all things and yet is beyond all things—all at the same time." [1]

"What is God? It could be said that God is the sum of all relationships. God is the consummation of all relationships." [2]

God is

"God is the experience of total relationship." [3]

“God is so close to you that you cannot even turn around. God is so big and so magnificent that if you had only one leg and one arm and God, you would do well.” [4]

“God is here. Yet no one can be still. Relationship is here. Yet no one can feel it. Your Teachers are with you, but your eyes are moving too fast.” [5]

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God "is the Source and Author of your life and of all life within this world and throughout the Greater Community of worlds in which you live." [1]

"Knowledge is God in you. God is Knowledge in the universe."[6]

“As Knowledge is the Mind behind your mind, so there is a Mind behind your Knowledge, and this Mind is God.” [7]

God is not

"God has no wrath." [8]

"God is not capable of anger." [9]

"God is not a person or a personage or a personality or a singular awareness. To think like this is to underestimate the Creator and to overestimate yourself." [10]

"God does not understand religion. God did not create religion. God only knows God. And because God only knows God, then God attracts you because you are part of God."[11]

God knows

"There is nothing in the universe that God is not aware of." [12]

“God knows what humanity needs even though humanity remains confused. God knows what is coming for the human family even though the human family is obsessed with its past. God knows that humanity must unite in the face of great danger even though people continue their conflicts and continue their admonitions against one another. What God knows and what people believe are not the same.” [13]

"God loves humanity. God is not angry with humanity. God knows exactly what humanity is prone to do under difficult circumstances, so God provides what is necessary to guide the human family, without taking from you your own responsibility as an individual, as a citizen and as a member of a group or a nation." [8]

God's Presence

"God permeates all things, lives within all things and yet is beyond all things—all at the same time." [1]

“God’s Presence is permanent. The world itself is temporary. The physical universe is temporary. God’s Presence is permanent. Can you then see what is great and what is small? Can you then see that which gives and that which must learn to receive? Can you then realize the importance of your preparation? Can you then realize the importance of your service in the world?” [14]

God's Plan

“The Creator uses everything for a greater purpose. The Creator does not come in and destroy the wicked and take control of everyone and everything and force a unity that people would resist and could not choose for themselves. Instead, everything is set in motion for redemption, for reunion, for contribution, for empowerment, for forgiveness, for true recognition.” [15]

“People are very adamant that God should come and make the world exactly the way they want it, but God has other plans. God’s intention is to free everyone here so that they may return to their Ancient Home. So instead of making the world a perfect place for your separation to exist, God has set in motion the forces to break your separation down. Very loving this is.” [16]

"God must enter a world where God is not welcome, in ways that do not generate fear and panic amongst those who believe the world is their only reality. It is for this reason that the Will of God manifests itself in subtle and ingenious ways in this world."[17]

God's Purpose

“God’s Purpose here is to unburden you and prepare you for true relationship, because you will not be able to do anything in life without true relationship.” [18]

"What gives your Being purpose, meaning and direction is its service to God. And what gives God purpose, meaning and direction is God’s expression through all things that can express God." [19]

“God is only interested in re-establishing communication with you. That is all that matters because that is the universe. What can you hope to accomplish here without that? Your span of years is quite brief. Your environment is far more powerful than you are, or seemingly so. There are countless adversities to undermine your progress. There must be something else. This then is where your trust must be directed.” [16]

The experience of God

“God has a Mind, a Will and a Purpose. In its totality, this is incomprehensible to you now, for you cannot stand apart from this Mind, this Will and this Purpose and be able to discern their meaning. You can only join with them, and the extent to which you can join with them will be the extent to which you will experience their reality, their value and their immediate necessity in your life.” [20]

God and creation: god of all worlds

"To understand God’s work in the world, you must understand God’s work in the entire universe." [21]

"You must think of God now in the Greater Community - not a human God, not a God of your written history, not a God of your trials and tribulations, but a God for all time, for all races, for all dimensions, for those who are primitve and for those who are advanced, for those who think like you and for those who think so differently, for those who believe and for those for whom belief is inexplicable. This is God in the Greater Community. And this is where you must begin." [3]

Enter the New Message through God

"You are no longer dealing with a local god, a local deity, a god of the hill and the tree, a god of the ocean and the river. You are not even dealing with the god of one world and one people, as you are accustomed to think.

Now you are dealing with a God of all the universes and Creation beyond the universes, a God so great that your mind can only fall down in praise.

Not a human God. Not a God that you create in your own imagination, but a God that you must experience at a deeper level, beneath and beyond the limits of your surface mind. For you to comprehend the God of the Greater Community, then you must comprehend the Voice of the Revelation."[22]

"God is too big to be concerned with this one world. God is not a human being. God is not limited by human understanding, human psychology or human emotions."[21]

"In the Universe, there are trillions and trillions of races. No one Redeemer can speak to them all. No one religion could speak to them all, obviously."[23]

God and creation: Earth and its inhabitants

"God is moving humanity in a new direction. It is time to prepare, to receive and to support the Revelation. People will complain. They will protest. They will resist. They will accuse the Messenger. They will denounce the Revelation. Unable to respond, unwilling to reconsider their life and their ideas, they will resist. This always happens at the time of Revelation. Those who have the greatest investment in the past will resist the new world and everything in it. They cannot see. They will not know. They do not have the courage to reconsider their position. They do not have the humility to stand in the face of the Revelation. What can God do for them? They asked so much from the Creator, but they cannot respond to the Creator’s response. What can God do for them? Be amongst the first to respond so that your greater gifts in life may be established and have an opportunity to come forth in the days and the years of your life. This is the power of Revelation—to unleash wisdom and Knowledge that humanity desperately needs now to prepare for a future that will be unlike the past. The blessings are with you. The power of redemption is within you, in Knowledge within you." [24]

“All the seeming power of your world, the forces of nature, the inevitability of your death, the ever-present threat of illness and loss and destruction, and all appearances of conflict are all temporary movements in the great stillness of God.” [25]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The One God, Chapter 1: Comprehending God
  2. ↑ Relationships & Higher Purpose, Chapter 1: Your Most Primary Relationship
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 1: What Is God?
  4. ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 31: Healing
  5. ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 20: Inner Listening
  6. ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 29: Faith and Fear
  7. ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 19: Fulfillment
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 The Engine of War (April 17, 2008)
  9. ↑ Relationships & Higher Purpose, Chapter 8: The Problem of Evil and the Forces of Dissonance
  10. ↑ God Has Spoken Again, Chapter 2: The Recitation
  11. ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 21: Enduring Happiness
  12. ↑ The Greater Community, Chapter 4: Entering the Greater Community
  13. ↑ The Message and the Messenger (January 26, 2008)
  14. ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 339: The presence of love is with me now.
  15. ↑ Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training, Step 13: I give myself to my practice today.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 4: Trust
  17. ↑ Secrets of Heaven, Secret 5
  18. ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 12: Love
  19. ↑ Relationships & Higher Purpose, Chapter 2: Your Relationship with Yourself
  20. ↑ Relationships & Higher Purpose, Chapter 1: Your Most Primary Relationship
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 The One God, Chapter 9: God, Knowledge, and the Angelic Presence
  22. ↑ The Time of Revelation: The Voice of the Revelation
  23. ↑ The Pure Religion, Chapter 13: The Redeemer
  24. ↑ God Has Spoken Again, Chapter 12: God Is Moving Humanity in a New Direction
  25. ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 40: Today I will feel the power of God.

See also

Belief in God

Covenant

God's Plan

God's Will

God wills

How God works

Metaphors for God

Providence

Spiritual welfare

The Greater Plan

The New God

Understanding

Your relationship with God

Further Study

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