I use this space as a journal so if I ever need to remind myself how or what I was thinking I can stop here. So here is my definition of my faith right now.
Unitarian Universalism, what does that mean to me? If someone asks I would say, to me it means the belief in the unity of God and the salvation of all souls. Follow up with the question, so you don’t believe in Jesus Christ? I would say, I don’t believe in the divinity of the trinity. But I learn so much from the teachings of Jesus that I celebrate his life. What about the Bible? I see the Bible as a book to draw inspiration from, but not to interpret literally, or to consider God-written. God wrote creation, the world, the universe—that is God’s true word. How can you say that? Because that is what makes sense to me. To reason that God’s word, which is the creation, is available to everyone equally. It is not a “book” that one must read and accept as truth to be “saved”. How about Heaven and Hell? I pay very little thought to the afterlife, because to enjoy life now is to be present in the moment. What I believe is summed up best by author Forrest Church, “I do believe I came from God and that I shall return to God.” For me being Unitarian Universalist means discovering the many ways to grow my faith without having to accept things with which I disagree.
