"What I Believe" is a series of posts on my current personal spiritual/religious beliefs. At least, my beliefs at the point of time of the post. These beliefs are personal and don't represent those of any larger group. I am proudly a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), but this blog is no way endorsed by Friends or meant to represent that community.
If you come across this before reading "On Points and God," you probably want to read that first.
If there is no toll for getting into heaven, no fear of what dreams may come after we shuffle off this mortal coil, then what is to keep us from being rapists and murders? Does moral action only come from the constructs of society? Do you enjoy repeatedly hitting yourself in the head with a hammer?
We are all God and God is everything. When we do violence to each other, to the earth, to the universe, then we do violence to God. When we hurt, God hurts. We remain moral, for the most part, because God’s Love permeates us.
Isn't the experience of murder a valid experience that God needs to truly understand God? Yes, sometimes pain is a necessary part of growth. God suffers with victims and with culprits. And we all feel that pain.
God would prefer that we all showed love to each other, because God loves God. But to truly understand God must know the dark as well as the light. This is part of the reason for the rough edges and uncertainty of the universe. We are called to stand in God's Love, but the possibility must exist for us to fall. And, while God cries for it, even the fallen are not wasted.
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