Of course! God is all we believe in!
We believe that God is the First Cause, the Great I Am, the One and Only. God is Spirit or Creative Energy, which is the cause of all visible things. God is all that we see and do not see.
God is Love, Wisdom, Intelligence, Power, Substance, and Mind. God is the Truth that is real, the Principle that is dependable.
To the degree that we can experience the presence of God in us, and as us, we shall be whole.
We believe that Jesus was a wayshower and a master teacher who knew the divine Truth about himself and all others. We do not believe he died on a cross to save us from sin.
We look to the teacher Jesus as the great example rather than he great exception. In this teaching, no attempt is made to rob Jesus of his greatness or refute his teachings. If anything, Science of Mind is based on his teachings. “The works that I do shall you do also; and greater works than these you shall do.” Therein lies the divine potential for all humankind.
The word “sin” comes from an ancient Greek term. When an archer missed his target with his arrow, he sinned. Sin means to miss the mark or to make a mistake.
There is no sin but a mistake, and no punishment but a consequence. The Law of Cause and Effect always brings with it the consequences of the action or mistake.
Cause always produces an effect. Metaphysically, we are always becoming cause to our effect by our thinking and deepest beliefs. Our conscious mind is that point where cause begins. The effect, or result, is reflected in our physical bodies and the body of our affairs. When we become aware of this process, we find that as we change the cause (our thinking), the effect (our lives) changes automatically.
Of course. Do we take it literally? No.
The Bible was written 2,000 to 3,000 years ago by the Semitic people, for the Semitic people. The Bible is a valuable and valid source of Truth when read and understood according to the authors’ consciousness and heritage. Truth is Truth, and the Bible must be read with an open mind, looking for the higher meaning in the stories, metaphors, and parables. To fully understand the Bible, one must understand idioms and the psychology used by the men who wrote the book.
Yes, God did write the Bible, through the consciousness of human beings; therefore, we must understand humankind to understand the book.
We believe that heaven is an inner state of happiness. It is not a place or locality “out there” somewhere with streets paved in gold. It is a real state of being. The Kingdom of Heaven is within and can be fully experienced when we bond and unify with the presence of God at the center of our own very being.
Hell, just like Heaven, is a state of mind, all based on our awareness or lack of awareness of the presence of God within us.
Hell is a discordant state of being, a belief in duality, a belief or sense of separation from Source, God. Many people are filled with hellish thoughts and therefore experience a “living hell” every day.