Faith Statement of Ben
Somerville
God is a name;
and I believe in God.
I use the name to express the source,
being, or non being, creator, sustainer, redeemer, forgiver, lover,
abstainer, and judge;
and everything which is in charge of
life animate and inanimate that we know or don't know about.
I intend to cover all bases, good and
evil because this understanding of God is the only way that my faith
statement makes sense;
And any limiting or confining
statement of God makes God less than God.
My faith is what I trust to be true as
if there were no question about it;
and I question a lot.
My faith allows and encourages me to
question;
and my faith depends on the truth as it
is, not as I want it to be.
When I have illusions;
and I am disillusioned, I come closer
to the truth.
I believe Jesus of Nazareth, a Jew who
became the Christian Messiah, is the best expression of God being
fully present in a human being;
and a witness to God's full presence
within each human being.
I believe God is present where there is
life of any kind;
and everything contains life.
I believe that every human contains the
gift of the full presence of God;
and we are responsible for how we live
out that gift.
We are all in this together;
and the way we treat one another is the
actual way we treat God.
Our struggle is to have our behavior be
congruent with our words;
and the way we feel will fall in line.
We will know the joy of compatibility,
even if it takes years;
and we are free to choose the way we
live.
We are within the sovereign reign of
God;
and loves abounds.
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