My Statement of Faith
I feel compelled to explain my departure from Christianity as it has been so greatly misunderstood by many. My faith in God has never been stronger or greater. It has simply shifted from Christianity to what I consider a much more loving version of our Creator. It has moved from the boundaries of traditional Christianity into a far greater understanding of God as Love itself.
I have never stopped believing in God. In truth, I believe in Him now more than ever—just not as a distant ruler to be feared, but as the infinite Presence within all things, within all beings, and within me.
How My Journey Began
Many years ago, I reached a point of spiritual unrest. I could no longer reconcile the idea that perfect Love could plan a creation where countless souls would suffer forever. What purpose could endless torment serve, other than to satisfy an angry deity’s displeasure with what it had created?
That belief struck me deeply, because it contradicted everything my soul knew to be true about a loving, intelligent, omniscient Creator. It was then that I prayed a simple but sincere prayer:
“Here I am—please show me the way.”
That prayer changed everything.
Returning to the Teachings of Jesus
I felt led to return to the pure words of Jesus—unfiltered, unmanipulated, and free from the heavy interpretations of institutional religion. I wanted to know what he truly taught about God, life, and the soul.
In my study, I discovered something extraordinary: that shortly after Jesus’s death, his followers split into two vastly different interpretations of his message. They had walked with him, heard the same loving messages and witnessed the same miracles, yet they did not unite in grief but split into two very different beliefs of his teachings.
One group—the Jewish Christians—continued in their traditional view of a God of fear, law, and punishment. The other group—the Gnostics—understood Jesus’s message as a revelation of divine oneness, a God who dwells within rather than above or beyond.
The Jewish Christians grew powerful in number and influence, condemning the Gnostics as heretics, burning their writings, and silencing their voices and strong-armed their version of an angry punishing God as institutional Christianity. Yet some of those sacred texts survived—hidden in clay jars in the Egyptian desert—rediscovered centuries later in 1945.
These texts, including the Gospels of Thomas, Philip, Mary, Truth, and the Secret Book of John, reaffirmed the same truth that Jesus himself taught: that the Kingdom of God is within each of us, and that knowing ourselves is the same as knowing God.
Teachings of Oneness
In the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus says:
“If those who lead you say to you, ‘See, the Kingdom is in the sky,’ then the birds will precede you.
If they say, ‘It is in the sea,’ then the fish will precede you.
Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you and it is outside of you.
When you come to know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will realize that you are children of the living Father.”
The Gospel of Philip reveals:
“You saw the Spirit, you became Spirit.
You saw Christ, you became Christ.
If you see the Father, you will become the Father.
In this world you see everything and do not see yourself,
but in that world, you will see yourself and become what you see.”
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene shows Jesus teaching that sin is not wickedness but ignorance—forgetting our divine origin:
“There is no such thing as sin,” Jesus tells her, “but it is you who make sin when you act according to the nature of darkness.”
In other words, sin is simply living in forgetfulness of our oneness with God.
The Gospel of Truth, attributed to Valentinus, proclaims that humanity’s suffering comes from forgetting its Source:
“Ignorance of the Father brought about anguish and terror.
And the anguish grew solid like a fog, so that no one could see.
But truth came into the world, and all creation received light.”
This mirrors Jesus’s words: “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
The Secret Book of John goes even deeper into divine oneness, describing God—the One—as the Source of all that exists:
“The One is the root of all things.
It is the light, pure, holy, and undefiled.
Nothing exists outside of It, yet It is beyond all things.
It is everything, yet nothing as the world understands.”
This perfectly aligns with the teaching that all exists within God—there is no outside, no separation.
The True Message of Jesus
When I compared the messages, it became clear that Jesus did not come to found a religion—he came to awaken us. He taught that God is not separate from us but expresses through us. He taught forgiveness, not judgment; unity, not division; awareness, not fear.
“The Kingdom of God is within you.” — Luke 17:21
“I and the Father are one.” — John 10:30
“In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.” — John 14:20
Every one of these statements reveals divine oneness—the same message the Gnostics carried, and the same message the institutional Church later tried to bury.
My Understanding of God Today
I now see that God is All in All—the Life, the Light, and the Love that sustains every atom of existence. We are not fallen sinners; we are divine beings temporarily asleep to our own perfection. We are souls on an eternal journey through experience and awakening, growing ever closer to remembering who we truly are: expressions of God.
There is no eternal judgment, for God condemns no one. There is only Love—so complete that even our missteps are woven into our evolution toward understanding.
Jesus did not die to change God’s attitude toward humanity; he lived to change humanity’s understanding of God.
Faith Restored, Not Lost
So when others say my faith has changed, I agree—but it has changed toward God, not away. I no longer worship a deity who demands fear, sacrifice, or suffering, but one who invites awakening, peace, and love.
My faith today rests on this unshakable truth:
God is Love, and we are One.
No soul is lost. No one is condemned.
All are evolving, awakening, and eventually remembering the divine light that has always been within. That, to me, is the faith Jesus lived and died to reveal—And the one the Gnostics gave their lives to preserve
Christianity does not believe in a a God of unconditional love and forgiveness but establishes conditions which you either meet or suffer forever and they call it love.
Christianity does not accept a God of oneness but one of separation.
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