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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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<big>God is the Creator of the universe and the source of [[Knowledge]] in all sentient beings.
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'''"God is the experience of total relationship."'''
 
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<ref name="gcs1">[http://www.newmessage.org/what-is-god-3 ''Greater Community Spirituality'', Chapter 1: 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">[http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/one-god/comprehending-god Comprehending God (January 31, 2007)]</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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[[File:Heaven.jpeg|left|Rays]]
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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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==The Presence of God==
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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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[[File:storm.jpg|400px|right|storm]]
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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>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One'', 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>
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[[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, Step 69</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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"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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<ref>''Steps to Knowledge'', Step 339</ref>
 
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== 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 One''], Chapter 29: 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>
  
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"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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==God is not ==
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<ref>The Recitation (April 1, 2011)</ref>
 
  
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==God's Plan to end separation==
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"God has no wrath."
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<ref name="eow"/>
  
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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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"God is not capable of anger."
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<ref>Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training, Step 13</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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''see also [[The Greater Plan]] and [[God's Plan]]''
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"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>''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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==The will of God==
 
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“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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"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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"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's Purpose==
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==God knows==
  
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“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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“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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"...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]], Chapter 2</ref>
 
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==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>
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[[File:wrath.jpg|400px|left|intensity]]
 
  
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==The wrath of God ==
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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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"God is not capable of anger."
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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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<ref>[[Relationships & Higher Purpose]], Chapter 8</ref>
 
  
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"God has no wrath."
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==God's Presence==
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<ref>The Engine of War (April 17, 2008)</ref>
 
  
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==The absence of the Presence of 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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“Your disassociation from yourself, from others and from God is primarily an issue of competition for power.”
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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 calling of God==
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==God's Plan==
  
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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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“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>Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 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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"If God speaks again, who can respond?
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“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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If God shows things that have never been shown before, who is willing to see this?
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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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If God defies religious belief and expectations, who has the courage and the humility to be prepared to receive this?
 
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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>God's Power and Presence in the World (April 23, 2011)</ref>
 
  
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==How God works==
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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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“The Creator does what works, even if it is incomprehensible to those who are destined to be its beneficiaries.”
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==God's Purpose==
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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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“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>Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 15</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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"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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"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>God’s Power & Presence in the World (April 23, 2011)</ref>
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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>
  
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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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“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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<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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“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>Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 18</ref>
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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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“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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“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>[http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/one-god/what-is-creation What is Creation? (February 2, 2008)]</ref>
 
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[[File:God of the Greater Community.jpg|500px|right|The Greater Community]]
 
  
 
==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">[http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/one-god/god-knowledge-and-the-angelic-presence 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."
 
<ref name="gcs1"/>
 
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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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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 Is Moving Humanity in a New Direction (April 22, 2011)</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>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'', [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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==References==
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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>[http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/one-god/new-god-revelation The New God (February 12, 2009)]</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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==See also==
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<ref name="wgcI3">Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 3</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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[[Belief in God]]
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<ref>The Gift of a New Life (May 14, 2011)</ref>
 
  
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==Your relationship with God==
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[[Covenant]]
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[[File:immanence.jpg|right|Immanence]]
 
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“You experience God through discovering and carrying out your purpose for being here.”
 
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“Your relationship with God cannot be comprehended intellectually. It must be experienced. The development of this experience rests upon your desire for it and your capacity for it.”
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[[God's Plan]]
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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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[[Providence]]
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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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“Through Knowledge you can feel the Presence of all relationships. This is the experience of God.”
 
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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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“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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“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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<ref name="rhp1share">[http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/relationships-higher-purpose/your-most-primary-relationship ''Relationships and Higher Purpose'']. Chapter 1: Your Most Primary Relationship (shared by the Messenger, [http://www.newmessage.org/forum/showthread.php/4556-Campfire-Chat-Transcript-January-2-2016 January 2, 2016)]</ref>
 
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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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"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>The Great Faith (April 25, 2007)</ref>
 
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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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“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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“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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“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.”
 
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<ref>Navigating the Difficult Times Ahead (September 29, 2008)</ref>
 
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“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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<ref>Knowledge and the Limits of Belief (November 3, 2008)</ref>
 
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== Further Study ==
 
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*''Greater Community Spirituality'', [http://www.newmessage.org/what-is-god-3 Chapter 1: What Is 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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*''Greater Community Spirituality'', [http://www.newmessage.org/chapters/greater-community-spirituality/chapter9.php Chapter 9: How Does God Participate in the World?]
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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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*''Relationships & Higher Purpose'', [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/relationships-higher-purpose/your-most-primary-relationship Chapter 1: "Your Most Primary Relationship"]
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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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*[http://www.newmessage.org/the-separation The Separation (November 25, 2012)]
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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-new-god The New God (February 12, 2009)]
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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-message/volume-1/one-god/comprehending-god Comprehending God (January 31, 2007)]
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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 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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