INNER CIRCLE: Nothing Shall Separate Us

For the Apostle Paul, the idea of our Oneness and inseparability from God is a non-negotiable. In this passage, for example, he argues that God’s love for humanity is an eternal bond that cannot be broken. God does not condemn us, nor does God reject any of us. Nothing, not even death, can stop the endless flow of God’s love for every single one of us who has ever lived or ever will.

Not only does Paul believe none of us can be separated from God’s love, but this Apostle also argues that none of us can be separated from God’s presence. As we have seen from his declaration to those idol-worshipping Pagans in Athens, “God is the One in whom we all live, and move, and have our being,” (Acts 17:22-28), no one can exist apart from their connection with God.

Therefore, all humanity exists due to an unbreakable connection with God, and everyone is loved with an everlasting love. God, who is love, sustains and fills everyone by default. There is no other possible way to be alive, or human, or to have breath and being without this Divine connection.

Religious theologians have done their best to convince us (because their theology depends on it to be so) that separation from God is not only possible, it is, in fact, the default position of all humanity that can only be corrected by embracing their religion. They create an imaginary problem – our innate separateness from God – and then sell us the cure – complete devotion to their religious system – as our only hope for salvation. As long as we continue to believe that we are separated from God without jumping through the hoops created by their religion, our fear of being cut off from God will keep us running in circles. In fact, even when they convince us that we have achieved Oneness with God, there is always the fear that we could lose it again if we ever fail to attend their religious services, or give financially to their institutions, or follow their rigid doctrines.

The only way to break out of this religious trap is to awaken to the reality that we are not, and never have been, and never could be separated from God. As Paul says in Colossians 1:21, “Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds…”, because the only place where anyone can ever be separated from God is in their mind. To be separated from God in reality is impossible.

So, once we awaken to the Oneness that Paul describes in Acts, and once we fully embrace the fact that we are all loved by God as Paul describes in this passage, our eyes are opened, and we realize that separation is an illusion created by people who want us to remain under their control.

Freedom comes when we realize that no one could ever be separated from God, and no one could ever be cut off from God’s love. In the same way that no one would ever ask whether the sky deserves to be blue, we realize that the sky is blue simply because it is the sky, and we are loved simply because we are created in the image of God, who is love.

Anyone who tries to convince you that you are separated from God is a liar. Any religion that tries to tell you that God’s love is only rationed out to a few people is a false religion. The truth is that everyone is connected to God, and everyone is loved by God.

Accept no substitutes.

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Quantum Theology: Volume One brings together an extraordinary and diverse group of scientists, mathematicians, theologians, mystics, authors, and cultural commentators to explore one of the most provocative conversations of our time: What happens when Quantum Physics and Theology begin to overlap?

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