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==Proclamation== | ==Proclamation== | ||
God is the Creator of the universe and the source of [[Knowledge]] in all [[sentient beings]]. | God is the Creator of the universe and the source of [[Knowledge]] in all [[sentient beings]]. | ||
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| + | == The Nature of God == | ||
| + | "God is not capable of anger." | ||
| + | *''Relationships & Higher Purpose'', chap. 8, p. 65 | ||
| + | ==Relationship with God== | ||
| + | "To understand God’s work in the world, you must understand God’s work in the entire universe." | ||
| + | *God, Knowledge, and the Angelic Presence, 9/17/08 | ||
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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." | ||
| + | *[[Greater Community Spirituality]], chap. 9 | ||
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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." | ||
| + | *The Future of Humanity (May 12, 2010) | ||
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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." | ||
| + | *The Great Faith 4/25/07 | ||
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| + | "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?" | ||
| + | *God's Power and Presence in the World, April 23, 2011 | ||
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| + | == Metaphors == | ||
| + | "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." | ||
| + | *Relationship & Higher Purpose, chap. 1, p. 2 | ||
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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." | ||
| + | *[[Greater Community Spirituality]], chap.9, p. 106 | ||
==Short Quotes== | ==Short Quotes== | ||
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"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 differenlty, 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 differenlty, 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." | ||
*[[Greater Community Spirituality]], chap. 1, p. 2 | *[[Greater Community Spirituality]], chap. 1, p. 2 | ||
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== Further Study == | == Further Study == | ||
Revision as of 21:15, 6 December 2011
Proclamation
God is the Creator of the universe and the source of Knowledge in all sentient beings.
The Nature of God
"God is not capable of anger."
- Relationships & Higher Purpose, chap. 8, p. 65
Relationship with God
"To understand God’s work in the world, you must understand God’s work in the entire universe."
- God, Knowledge, and the Angelic Presence, 9/17/08
"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."
- Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 9
"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."
- The Future of Humanity (May 12, 2010)
"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."
- The Great Faith 4/25/07
"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?"
- God's Power and Presence in the World, April 23, 2011
Metaphors
"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."
- Relationship & Higher Purpose, chap. 1, p. 2
"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."
- Greater Community Spirituality, chap.9, p. 106
Short Quotes
"God is the experience of total relationship."
- Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 1, p. 1
"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."
- The Recitation (April 1, 2011)
"There is nothing in the universe that God is not aware of."
- Entering the Greater Community (May 27, 2011)
"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..."
- The New God, February 12, 2009
"God has no wrath."
- The Engine of War (April 17, 2008)
Long Quotes
"God did not create your social personality.
"God did not create your ideas and beliefs.
"God did not create your decisions, your failures and your regrets.
"God can only speak to what God created in you, which is something deeper, more pervasive and more natural within you.
"The New Message is calling to you."
- The Recitation (April 1, 2011)
"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."
- The Voice of the Revelation (April 14, 2011)
"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 (April 22, 2011)
"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."
- The Engine of War (April 17, 2008)
What is God?
"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 differenlty, 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."
- Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 1, p. 2
Further Study
How Does the New Message Speak of God?
Greater Community Spirituality, chapter 1: What Is God?
Greater Community Spirituality, chapter 9: How Does God Participate in the World?
Relationships & Higher Purpose, Chapter 1, Your Most Primary Relationship