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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?" | ||
Revision as of 00:03, 13 November 2011
Proclamation
God is the Creator of all intelligent life in the universe(s) and the source of Knowledge in all sentient beings.
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
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)
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
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
"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
God's Will for Humankind
"The Creator of all life wills that humanity repair a world in decline to preserve human self-sufficiency and thus secure human freedom and independence in this world. The Creator of all life wills that humanity emerge into this Greater Community of intelligent life in the Universe as a free and independent race able to sustain itself, able to establish itself, able to learn the Knowledge and wisdom it must gain in order to function within this larger environment.
"But what God wills must be translated through human awareness, human relationships, human understanding and human behavior. God wills that you be happier than you are today, that you be more successful than you are today, that you be more compassionate than you are today, that you be more effective than you are today as an individual. Therefore, you see, what God wills must be translated into human experience."
- A New Way Forward for Humanity, 12/31/06
"God does not care if you believe in Jesus, or if you follow the Koran, or if you try to be unattached with everything. God wants you to follow Knowledge."
- Errors in Religious Understanding, 1/10/09
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, Chapter 1, Your Most Primary Relationship
"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
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?