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<big>God is the Creator of the universe and the source of [[Knowledge]] in all sentient beings.
 
<big>God is the Creator of the universe and the source of [[Knowledge]] in all sentient beings.
  
 
'''"God is the experience of total relationship."'''
 
'''"God is the experience of total relationship."'''
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<ref name="gcs1">[[Greater Community Spirituality]], Chapter 1</ref>
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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"/>
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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>
  
 
“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.”
 
“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.”
 
<ref name="wgcI3"/>
 
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[[File:Heaven.jpeg|left|Rays]]
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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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[[File:Heaven.jpeg|right|Rays]]
 
==The Presence of God==
 
==The Presence of God==
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[[File:storm.jpg|400px|right|storm]]
 
  
 
“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>Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 20</ref>
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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>
  
 
"The experience of God directly is the experience of all relationships at once."<ref>[[Secrets of Heaven]], Secret 44</ref>
 
"The experience of God directly is the experience of all relationships at once."<ref>[[Secrets of Heaven]], Secret 44</ref>
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[[File:Step69-EllenMitchell.jpg|left]]
  
 
“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.”
 
“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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<ref>Steps to Knowledge, Step 69</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>
  
 
“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?”
 
“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, Step 339</ref>
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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>
  
 
== The Nature of God ==
 
== The Nature of God ==
  
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[[File:God the Sum medallion.jpg|left|Enter the New Message through God]]
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"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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"Knowledge is God in you. God is Knowledge in the universe."<ref>[[Wisdom from the Greater Community]] Volume One, Faith and Fear</ref>
 
  
 
“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.”
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<ref>Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 19</ref>
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<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>
  
 
"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."
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<ref>The Recitation (April 1, 2011)</ref>
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<ref>''God Has Spoken Again'', Chapter 2: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/god-spoken-again/the-recitation The Recitation]</ref>
  
 
==God's Plan to end separation==
 
==God's Plan to end separation==
  
 
“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.”
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<ref>Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training, Step 13</ref>
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<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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''see also'' [[The Greater Plan]] and [[God's Plan]]
  
 
==The will of God==
 
==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.”
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<ref name="wgcI4">Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 4</ref>
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<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>
  
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"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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"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]]''
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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 One, Chapter 12</ref>
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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>
  
 
“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.”
 
“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>
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"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."
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<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>
  
 
==The omniscience of God==
 
==The omniscience of God==
 
"There is nothing in the universe that God is not aware of."
 
"There is nothing in the universe that God is not aware of."
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<ref>Entering the Greater Community (May 27, 2011)</ref>
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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>
  
 
“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.”
 
“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>The Message and the Messenger (January 26, 2008)</ref>
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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>
 
[[File:wrath.jpg|400px|left|intensity]]
 
[[File:wrath.jpg|400px|left|intensity]]
  
 
==The wrath of God ==
 
==The wrath of God ==
 
"God is not capable of anger."
 
"God is not capable of anger."
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<ref>[[Relationships & Higher Purpose]], Chapter 8</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>
  
 
"God has no wrath."
 
"God has no wrath."
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<ref>The Engine of War (April 17, 2008)</ref>
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<ref name="eow"/>
  
 
==The absence of the Presence of God==
 
==The absence of the Presence 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."
 
"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 One, Chapter 13</ref>
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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>
  
 
"If God speaks again, who can respond?
 
"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?
 
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?
 
Who is willing and able to do this?"
 
Who is willing and able to do this?"
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<ref>God's Power and Presence in the World (April 23, 2011)</ref>
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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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==How God works==
 
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“People often think of God as a giant welfare system—spiritual welfare! You just sign up and then you collect your checks, and you receive your dispensations, and you are given your gifts and your miracles. You just have to believe in the system. Then God will come and serve you and do all these little things for you, as if God had nothing better to do in the universe than to cater to your wishes! Only a pathetic God would be so involved!”
 
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<ref>Living The Way of Knowledge, Chapter 4</ref>
 
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“The Creator does what works, even if it is incomprehensible to those who are destined to be its beneficiaries.”
 
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<ref>Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 6</ref>
 
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"God is working behind the scenes, reclaiming the separated through Knowledge, working through inspired individuals and through meaningful relationships. God does not make a big show. God does not want people to bow down and become slaves, unwillingly, resentfully, with hostility and bitterness. ... God does not threaten you. God does not tantalize you. God does not seduce you. God is present for you, and you have the opportunity to become present for God."
 
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<ref>Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 15</ref>
 
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"Recognition must be based upon a deeper experience, recognition of a greater truth, recognition of a New Revelation. This recognition occurs at a deeper level of the mind, beyond the realm of the intellect, beyond the realm of ideas and beliefs and the things that people attach themselves to regarding the Divine Presence and Power in the world. This Power is so formidable, but it functions through the individual. It works from the inside out. This is how God works in the world. People want grandiose demonstrations, but the Presence operates differently. It does not make a great show of itself. It speaks to the inner world of the person and reaches from person to person in this way."
 
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<ref>God’s Power & Presence in the World (April 23, 2011)</ref>
 
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“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.”
 
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<ref>Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training, Step 13</ref>
 
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“God is always pumping life into life, essence into form. When things begin to die, individuals are sent into the world to bring new life.”
 
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<ref>Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 16</ref>
 
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“God works mysteriously. God is like a great attraction without a marquee or a billboard. God is pulling you along incessantly.”
 
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<ref>Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 18</ref>
 
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“Your Spiritual Family beyond the world is supporting your spiritual development by communicating to you through the Mental Environment. The Unseen Ones are supporting your spiritual development by overseeing your participation in the world and by participating with you at the critical turning points of your life. And the Creator is supporting your spiritual development because the Creator has given you Knowledge—a pure, guiding intelligence within you. Beyond the reach of the world and worldly contamination, it remains ever pure and ever complete within you.”
 
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<ref>[[Living The Way of Knowledge]], Chapter 5</ref>
 
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“God functions beyond human belief. God is not circumscribed by humanity’s religious traditions. God moves as God moves, not as people think God moves. Even if you can get everyone in the world to agree about a position about God, God is not bound by this. To say that God cannot send a New Message into the world is profoundly arrogant. How can you say what God will do or what God cannot do? How can you make this claim?”
 
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<ref>What is Creation? (February 2, 2008)</ref>
 
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[[File:God of the Greater Community.jpg|500px|right|The Greater Community]]
 
  
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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==
  
 
"To understand God’s work in the world, you must understand God’s work in the entire universe."
 
"To understand God’s work in the world, you must understand God’s work in the entire universe."
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<ref name="ang">God, Knowledge, and the Angelic Presence (September 2008)</ref>
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<ref name="ang">''The One God'', [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/one-god/god-knowledge-and-the-angelic-presence Chapter 9: God, Knowledge, and the Angelic Presence]</ref>
  
 
"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."
 
"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."
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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.
 
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."
 
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>The Voice of the Revelation (April 14, 2011)</ref>
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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>
  
 
"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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"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 Is Moving Humanity in a New Direction (April 22, 2011)</ref>
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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>
  
 
"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."
 
"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>The Engine of War (April 17, 2008)</ref>
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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.”
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<ref>Steps to Knowledge, Step 40</ref>
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<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>
  
 
==The new God==
 
==The new God==
 
[[File:Messier_30.jpg|left|Messier 30]]
 
[[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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"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>The New God (February 12, 2009)</ref>
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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>
  
 
“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.”
 
“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">Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 3</ref>
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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>
  
 
"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."
 
"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 Gift of a New Life (May 14, 2011)</ref>
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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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==Your relationship with God==
 
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[[File:immanence.jpg|right|Immanence]]
 
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“Your experience of intimacy with anyone or anything directly reflects your [[Desire and Capacity|desire and capacity]] to experience God.”
 
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“Your relationship with God is not based upon ideas. It is based upon the experience of affinity and purpose.”
 
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“Your relationship with God indicates that you are here in the world for a purpose.”
 
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<ref name="rhp1">Relationships & Higher Purpose, Chapter 1</ref>
 
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“The great gulf between you and God must be filled in with reality. The assumption is always made that there is you and there is God, and you are small and God is great. But between you and God is all of life’s evolution—an expanding network of relationships. It is through this network that you must pass.”
 
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<ref>Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 17</ref>
 
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“In realizing your real will, you come to realize [[God's Will|God’s will]] for you.”
 
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“Through Knowledge you can feel the Presence of all relationships. This is the experience of God.”
 
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<ref>[[Steps to Knowledge]], Step 169</ref>
 
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"God is the great attraction, and you must become the great respondent."
 
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<ref>The New Message on Freedom (February 23, 2008)</ref>
 
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"God is so close to you, and yet so vast and magnificent and incomprehensible. Your connection to God is at the very center of your being, but you live your life at the surface of the mind, held there by your fascination and [[fear]] of the world."
 
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<ref>The Future of Humanity (May 12, 2010)</ref>
 
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“In coming into meaningful relationship with another, you will feel God. In telling the truth where the truth needs to be told, you will feel God. In experiencing gratitude for something that has been done for you, even on a mundane level, you will feel God. This is how God is recognized and experienced.”
 
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<ref name="gcs9">Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 9</ref>
 
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"God did not create your social personality.
 
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God did not create your ideas and beliefs.
 
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God did not create your decisions, your failures and your regrets.
 
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God can only speak to what God created in you, which is something deeper, more pervasive and more natural within you.
 
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The New Message is calling to you."
 
−
<ref>The Recitation (April 1, 2011)</ref>
 
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“This Greater [[Power]] in the world requires that you be prepared to receive it and to express it. You are its voice; your hands are its hands; your eyes are its eyes; your ears are its ears; your movement is its movement. It relies upon your preparation and upon your [[demonstration]], as you rely upon it for certainty and as you rely upon it for purpose, meaning and direction. Thus it is through this reliance upon Knowledge and Knowledge’s reliance upon you that your union with [[Knowledge]] is made complete.”
 
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<ref>Steps to Knowledge, Step 318</ref>
 
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“Your relationship with God is what must be healed, for that is the primary conflict in your life. Your disassociation from God is the source of all of your conflicts and disabilities. However, the resolution of this fundamental conflict will take place within your relationship with yourself, with others and with the world. In other words, your problem is your relationship with God, but the solution will be established through your relationship with yourself, with others and with the world. Real healing must be established within the context of these three arenas. The power for you to do this is given by God.”
 
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“In considering your relationship with God, you do not need to have answers, but only to ask questions. You ask these questions so that you may open the door to your own realization.”
 
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==Belief in God==
 
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“You do not need to be a religious person or even to have a [[religion]] in order to experience God.”
 
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“The purpose of all religious institutions fundamentally is to provide an environment where you can cultivate your desire and your capacity to experience God.”
 
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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]].”
 
“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."
 
"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>
  
 
"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."
 
"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 Great Faith (April 25, 2007)</ref>
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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>
  
 
“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.”
 
“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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"[The power of Knowledge] is God's great gift to you. You may feel, or even complain, that God has not done this or that for you in the past. What God has given you, however, is so much greater than all of your former requests. God has given you freedom, and with freedom God has given you purpose and direction."
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==Proof of God==
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<ref>Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 13</ref>
 
  
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==Other Quotes about God==
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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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==Other quotes about God==
  
 
“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.”
 
“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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<ref name="wgcI3"/>
  
 
“What is the ego but the attempt to maintain [[the mind]] in its service to [[the body]]. This punishes the body and crucifies the mind. To reverse this destructive arrangement is God’s first purpose. For God’s first purpose is to unburden you from your own conflicts so that you may be able to express the greater purpose which has brought you into the world.”
 
“What is the ego but the attempt to maintain [[the mind]] in its service to [[the body]]. This punishes the body and crucifies the mind. To reverse this destructive arrangement is God’s first purpose. For God’s first purpose is to unburden you from your own conflicts so that you may be able to express the greater purpose which has brought you into the world.”
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<ref>Relationships & Higher Purpose, Chapter 2</ref>
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<ref>''Relationships & Higher Purpose'', [http://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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“You can ask God for favors, you can ask God to rescue you from your dilemmas great and small, but somehow you never made your rendezvous with God. Your rendezvous with God is your rendezvous with [[Knowledge]] within yourself, for that is where God speaks to you. That is where you reconnect with the Source of your life.”
 
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<ref>The Sacred Rendezvous (January 29, 2009)</ref>
 
  
 
“God does not discriminate. God is not delighted with the religious and angry with the unreligious. God has placed the saving [[Grace]] within each person. The real purpose of religion is to bring people to this saving Grace. Religion in all of its forms is intended to do this. Even though religion has taken on other [[manifestation]]s and assumed other purposes and in many cases has been adopted by political forces, this is its fundamental purpose—to bring you to Knowledge, to bring you to this deeper guiding intelligence that the Creator of all life has placed within you and within each person as a potential.”
 
“God does not discriminate. God is not delighted with the religious and angry with the unreligious. God has placed the saving [[Grace]] within each person. The real purpose of religion is to bring people to this saving Grace. Religion in all of its forms is intended to do this. Even though religion has taken on other [[manifestation]]s and assumed other purposes and in many cases has been adopted by political forces, this is its fundamental purpose—to bring you to Knowledge, to bring you to this deeper guiding intelligence that the Creator of all life has placed within you and within each person as a potential.”
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<ref>What Will Save Humanity (March 30, 2008)</ref>
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<ref>''The New World'': [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/new-world/what-will-save-humanity What Will Save Humanity]</ref>
−
 
 
−
“You may pray urgently to God for salvation, for guidance, for redemption and for protection, but God has already given you a perfect guiding intelligence. Whether you are a part of a [[religion]] or not, whether you practice a [[faith]] tradition or not, wherever you live, whatever your culture, whatever your financial position, you have the great endowment living within you.”
 
−
<ref>Navigating the Difficult Times Ahead (September 29, 2008)</ref>
 
  
 
“God is speaking to everybody—even those who do not believe what you believe, even those who do not adhere to your religion, those of other countries and tribes and groups who might live very differently from you and have different social customs and values. God is speaking to them. God does not only speak to the people of one faith tradition, as if they were the chosen people, as if they were God’s favorite because God does not function at the level of ideas. God is not a super [[intelligence|intellect]] because God exists beyond the physical reality, and beyond the physical reality you do not need ideas in the way that you think of them now. [[Ideas]] are related to form, to people, places and things and to the interpretation of events, which are people, places and things. God lives beyond this [[reality]].”
 
“God is speaking to everybody—even those who do not believe what you believe, even those who do not adhere to your religion, those of other countries and tribes and groups who might live very differently from you and have different social customs and values. God is speaking to them. God does not only speak to the people of one faith tradition, as if they were the chosen people, as if they were God’s favorite because God does not function at the level of ideas. God is not a super [[intelligence|intellect]] because God exists beyond the physical reality, and beyond the physical reality you do not need ideas in the way that you think of them now. [[Ideas]] are related to form, to people, places and things and to the interpretation of events, which are people, places and things. God lives beyond this [[reality]].”
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== Metaphors ==
 
== Metaphors ==
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"The emphasis here is for you to reach that vantage point where you can see your relationship with God and with yourself clearly while you are in [[the world]]. It is from this vantage point that you will be able to see the relationship of all things. Like climbing a great mountain, you must reach a certain position where the relationship of that mountain to everything around it becomes self-evident."
 
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"God is like the air. Everyone breathes the air, but few pay any attention to it. Everyone is sustained every moment with every breath. Their bodies depend upon each breath in order to live in the next moment. Cut off this supply of air and the person dies quickly and everything comes to an end. God is like that—so pervasive, so present, so supportive and so nourishing."
 
"God is like the air. Everyone breathes the air, but few pay any attention to it. Everyone is sustained every moment with every breath. Their bodies depend upon each breath in order to live in the next moment. Cut off this supply of air and the person dies quickly and everything comes to an end. God is like that—so pervasive, so present, so supportive and so nourishing."
 
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"But God exists beyond all of this—the real God, the pure God that has been shining like the sun upon you. Regardless of the clouds in the sky, regardless of the pollution in the atmosphere and the turbulence on the ground, God is like the sun shining upon you.
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==References==
 
==References==
 
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==See also==
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[[Covenant]]
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[[God's Plan]]
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[[God's Will]]
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[[God wills]]
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[[How God works]]
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[[Providence]]
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[[Spiritual welfare]]
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[[The Greater Plan]]
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[[The New God]]
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[[Understanding]]
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[[Your relationship with God]]
  
 
== Further Study ==
 
== Further Study ==
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[http://www.newmessage.org/special-teachings/the-nature-and-experience-of-god.php# How Does the New Message Speak of God?]
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*''Greater Community Spirituality'', Chapter 1: [http://www.newmessage.org/what-is-god-3 What Is God?]
  
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[http://www.newmessage.org/chapters/greater-community-spirituality/chapter1.php?bg=black Greater Community Spirituality, chapter 1: What Is God?]
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*''Greater Community Spirituality'', Chapter 9: [http://www.newmessage.org/chapters/greater-community-spirituality/chapter9.php How does God participate in the world?]
  
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[http://www.newmessage.org/chapters/greater-community-spirituality/chapter9.php Greater Community Spirituality, chapter 9: How Does God Participate in the World?]
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*''Relationships & Higher Purpose'',  Chapter 1: [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/relationships-higher-purpose/your-most-primary-relationship Your Most Primary Relationship]
  
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[[Relationships & Higher Purpose]], Chapter 1: "Your Most Primary Relationship"
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*''The One God'', Chapter 4: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/one-god/the-separation The Separation]
  
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[http://www.newmessage.org/the-separation The Separation]
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*''The One God'', Chapter 1: [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/one-god/comprehending-god Comprehending God]
  
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[http://www.newmessage.org/the-new-god The New God]
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*''The One God'', Chapter 2: [http://www.newmessage.org/the-new-god The New God Revelation]
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God is the Creator of the universe and the source of Knowledge in all sentient beings.

"God is the experience of total relationship." [1]

"God permeates all things, lives within all things and yet is beyond all things—all at the same time." [2]

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." [2]

“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.” [3]

"What is God? It could be said that God is the sum of all relationships. God is the consummation of all relationships." [4]

Rays

The Presence of God

“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]

"The experience of God directly is the experience of all relationships at once."[6]

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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.” [7]

“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?” [8]

The Nature of God

"Knowledge is God in you. God is Knowledge in the universe."[9]

“As Knowledge is the Mind behind your mind, so there is a Mind behind your Knowledge, and this Mind is God.” [10]

"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." [11]

God's Plan to end separation

“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.” [12]

see also The Greater Plan and God's Plan

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.” [13]

"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."[14]

see also God's Will

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.” [15]

“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.” [16]

"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." [17]

The omniscience of God

"There is nothing in the universe that God is not aware of." [18]

“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.” [19]

intensity

The wrath of God

"God is not capable of anger." [20]

"God has no wrath." [21]

The absence of the Presence of God

“Your disassociation from yourself, from others and from God is primarily an issue of competition for power.” [16]

The calling of God

"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." [22]

"If God speaks again, who can respond? If God shows things that have never been shown before, who is willing to see this? If God defies religious belief and expectations, who has the courage and the humility to be prepared to receive this? 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? Who is willing and able to do this?" [23]

Enter the New Message through God

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." [24]

"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." [1]

"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." [25]

"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."[24]

"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."[26]

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." [27]

"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." [21]

“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.” [28]

The new God

Messier 30

"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." [29]

“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.” [3]

"God did not invent your ideas and beliefs. God did not create your preferences and your fears. 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." [30]

Belief in God

“The attempt to define God is the attempt to make God concrete. This is an attempt to make God fit in with your ideas.” [16]

"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." [31]

"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." [32]

“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.” [13]

Proof of God

"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 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." [33]

Other quotes about God

“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.” [3]

“What is the ego but the attempt to maintain the mind in its service to the body. This punishes the body and crucifies the mind. To reverse this destructive arrangement is God’s first purpose. For God’s first purpose is to unburden you from your own conflicts so that you may be able to express the greater purpose which has brought you into the world.” [34]

“God does not discriminate. God is not delighted with the religious and angry with the unreligious. God has placed the saving Grace within each person. The real purpose of religion is to bring people to this saving Grace. Religion in all of its forms is intended to do this. Even though religion has taken on other manifestations and assumed other purposes and in many cases has been adopted by political forces, this is its fundamental purpose—to bring you to Knowledge, to bring you to this deeper guiding intelligence that the Creator of all life has placed within you and within each person as a potential.” [35]

“God is speaking to everybody—even those who do not believe what you believe, even those who do not adhere to your religion, those of other countries and tribes and groups who might live very differently from you and have different social customs and values. God is speaking to them. God does not only speak to the people of one faith tradition, as if they were the chosen people, as if they were God’s favorite because God does not function at the level of ideas. God is not a super intellect because God exists beyond the physical reality, and beyond the physical reality you do not need ideas in the way that you think of them now. Ideas are related to form, to people, places and things and to the interpretation of events, which are people, places and things. God lives beyond this reality.” [36]

Metaphors

"God is like the air. Everyone breathes the air, but few pay any attention to it. Everyone is sustained every moment with every breath. Their bodies depend upon each breath in order to live in the next moment. Cut off this supply of air and the person dies quickly and everything comes to an end. God is like that—so pervasive, so present, so supportive and so nourishing." [31]

"But God exists beyond all of this—the real God, the pure God that has been shining like the sun upon you. Regardless of the clouds in the sky, regardless of the pollution in the atmosphere and the turbulence on the ground, God is like the sun shining upon you. But God is beyond the sun, beyond any definition that you can make. Beyond your histories, beyond the great teachers and the great Messengers from God, beyond the great spiritual books and testimonies, there is God the Creator and the Author of your life and existence." [2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 1: What Is God?
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The One God, Chapter 1: Comprehending God
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 3: Greater Community
  4. ↑ Relationships & Higher Purpose, Chapter 1: Your Most Primary Relationship
  5. ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 20: Inner Listening
  6. ↑ Secrets of Heaven, Secret 44
  7. ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 69: Today I will practice stillness.
  8. ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 339: The presence of love is with me now.
  9. ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 29: Faith and Fear
  10. ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 19: Fulfillment
  11. ↑ God Has Spoken Again, Chapter 2: The Recitation
  12. ↑ Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training, Step 13: I give myself to my practice today.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 4: Trust
  14. ↑ Secrets of Heaven, Secret 5
  15. ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 12: Love
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Relationships & Higher Purpose, Chapter 1: Your Most Primary Relationship
  17. ↑ Relationships & Higher Purpose, Chapter 2: Your Relationship with Yourself
  18. ↑ The Greater Community, Chapter 4: Entering the Greater Community
  19. ↑ The Message and the Messenger (January 26, 2008)
  20. ↑ Relationships & Higher Purpose, Chapter 8: The Problem of Evil and the Forces of Dissonance
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 The Engine of War (April 17, 2008)
  22. ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 13: Spiritual Community
  23. ↑ God’s Power and Presence in the World (April 23, 2011)
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 The One God, Chapter 9: God, Knowledge, and the Angelic Presence
  25. ↑ The Voice of the Revelation (April 14, 2011)
  26. ↑ The Redeemer (January 18, 2010)
  27. ↑ God Has Spoken Again, Chapter 12: God Is Moving Humanity in a New Direction
  28. ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 40: Today I will feel the power of God.
  29. ↑ The One God, Chapter 2: The New God Revelation
  30. ↑ The Journey to a New Life, Chapter 6: The Gift of a New Life
  31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 9: How does God participate in the world?
  32. ↑ The Pure Religion, Chapter 2: The Great Faith
  33. ↑ Unpublished Revelation (July 2, 2006)
  34. ↑ Relationships & Higher Purpose, Chapter 2: Your Relationship with Yourself
  35. ↑ The New World: What Will Save Humanity
  36. ↑ Knowledge and the Limits of Belief (November 3, 2008)

See also

Covenant

God's Plan

God's Will

God wills

How God works

Providence

Spiritual welfare

The Greater Plan

The New God

Understanding

Your relationship with God

Further Study

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