Me and Madaba have come up with a creed, a statement of beliefs in which we explain the basics of our God-concept. We do not claim that this comes straight from The Godhead itself although we are certain these things are true and accurate. If we weren't so sure then we would never have posted them. I call this current creed The Madaba Creed version 1. Here it is:
- God is the reason why there is something rather than nothing
- The Universe is the way in which God exists
- Everything that exists is a figuration of The Divine Substance
- Both “mind” and “matter” are different modes of existence for the same Divine Substance
- “Mind” and “matter” are both part of God’s existence, different aspects of The Divine Substance
- The Universe is God but God is more than The Universe
- The Godhead exists beyond The Universe but is of the same Divine Substance
- Jesus Christ represents the human dimension of The Godhead and embodies extraordinary human virtue
- Throughout human history God has purposefully inspired and interacted with countless individuals
- God is more than just the cause of existence, he the fabric of existence, existence itself
- Nothing causes God's existence other than God's own existence
- God exists beyond puny human notions of time and causation. He is timeless, he is not bound by time and acts above and beyond its limits
- Humans have a God seeking instinct and there are a great many human traditions that can help a person understand God, come closer to him, live better lives, and make a better world
- Consciousness itself is eternal, but a mind and a personality are normally only temporary figurations. Normally, there is no enduring self, but after one dies the spirit lives on in other figurations
- The world’s problems are mostly caused by humans and the solutions to those problems are going to have to come from humans. Humans are both the problem and the solution
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