[100thmonkey]

Originally Posted by Kelphi

...Not 3 gods, but 3 characteristics of the one God head. I am a father to my children, a husband to my wife and a son to my parents. I am not 3 separate people. God is one...

But you aren't you're children, your wife, and your parents, at the same time though ...unless you want to embrace the Universal One-ness concept?

If you think of the word 'Universe', it means 'all that is'. It includes everything that exists.
That concept even then says something about the nature of the Universe - If the Creator is seperate from the Universe he created then it's not really the 'Universe' is it?
So whatever Universal Intelligence there is must be a part of 'the universe', not seperate.

The Old testament pointed to the cross and the new testament pointed back at the cross. The central point to the bible is the cross not self or self awareness or any other new age self doctrine.

The cross is the cross at the centre of the Zodiacal circle.

You may reject that as Pagan (thus 'Satanic') or new agey-ness, but have you ever wondered what was with the 'four living creatures' described in Revelation 4:7 sitting around the throne of God (also Ezekiel 1:10)?
The Lion, the Eagle, the Bull and the Man...?
Yes, each one is one of the four signs at the corners of the zodiacal circle, the cross on which the Sun of God suffers, dies and is reborn...

Yep, the bible is pagan too.

Regarding self-awareness, that is the force behind the Creation.
When the infinite aether first became aware (the birth of 'god') it inevitably then experienced desire.

That desire was for further experience (what else?) So it then devised a method of experiencing, ie. the universe, and us within it, as it's perspectives for this experience.

If you wonder what it could have used to create, it could only be that which itself is made of...
therefore we are all a part of it.
Therefore also none of us could possibly be eternally damned by this Creator.

We needed to be made ignorant though, in order to more fully experience.
Yet we also needed to be able to eventually remember what we really are, in order to join that experience back to the Creator.

So it is that 'experience' inevitably leads to learning and growth, so our awareness increases ...to the point where we finally fully realise our oneness with the source.

It's kind of ingenious, because we couldn't mess it up if we wanted to. It's a natural inevitability that we will eventually return, through awareness, and beyond.

It's a system that doesn't rely on whether or not we come across a certain book or concept in our journey.
There's no instruction guide, or saviour, necessary...

There is a way that seems right to a man but in the end leads to death. Jesus said, "I am the way the truth and the light, and no one comes to the Father but through me".

This is one of the main flaws I see in the christian story because it damns all those who had/have never even heard about Jesus.
Such a thing is contradictory and incompatible with any claims of justice, love or mercy the bible makes about god, and so shows the bible doesn't even make sense, and that it doesn't really understand the Creator.

But you're better than that.
The fact that you say you feel driven to preach this message shows you have a greater concept of compassion than the god of the bible (or at least of those who invented him).