Why the God of Everything Can Unify All Paths of Faith

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For many prevalent faith traditions today, the following idea continues to be heterodox.

It is the idea about the God of everything: all paths of faith lead to the absolute.

Of course, the resistance to such a bold idea is understandable. All the world’s major religions are currently in a competitive state. Each one believes theirs, and theirs alone is the Big Truth. Accepting the God of everything that exists would mean admitting that their rival religions are also correct. Naturally, they find this both absurd and heretical.

But then, what if it’s the other way around?

What if the problem lies in an overreliance on one exclusive and temporal perspective that blinds every truth seeker from seeing reality at its most absolute?

Fortunately, a growing number of churches and religious groups are catching on. The likes of Unitarian Universalists, for example, have expanded their search for ultimate reality to include the texts of other major religions. And even then, they still believe in the reality of one God existing beyond time and space.

It is really ironic that many traditionalists across the major religions have common ground when they all agree to disagree with the universalists! The same even goes for the hard skeptics among the secular atheists and humanists. 

There is an overemphasis on temporal differences, where a universal God is not bound by such rules. But, of course, anyone who has observed the global search for truth has been seeing it steer towards the latter for some time.

Why The God of Everything Both Subverts and Unites Multiple Faiths

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When one looks at all the current reigning religions, they all at least have one of these in common.

1. They are old, with something dating over 2,000 years.

2. They base their teachings on preserved texts.

3. They generally tend to resist changes to beliefs.

It is a small wonder that these ultimately fall on one side when met with more secular, empirical, and physicalist schools of thought. Throughout the various periods of enlightenment, advancing experiments and more meticulous observations of the universe have chipped away at fantastical myths previously held by religion as the model of the cosmos.

And yet, fast forward closer to the 20th century, something even more radical has been put forth, and it has gained traction. Things like string theory advance that everything is one and the same (at least on a certain level).

Still, this same theory (or at least variations of it) also posits the possibility of other planes existing out of space and time. Thus, many philosophers and scientists are actually back to considering the God of everything, answering the question of ultimate reality and existence.

It is a bold idea that challenges the doctrines that were only validated by written records, which are just among the many fallible instruments of this temporal world. And yet, the new evidence has validated something that is universal across all the world’s faiths.

Materialism Also Seems to Be an Old Religion

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Another way to look at this phenomenon is the idea that materialism may not be as ‘new’ as its adherents say it is.

Most of them would insist that the newest tools and methodologies have unveiled everything there is to know about the universe. The existence of the God of everything seems inconceivable when such a God is some fabricated spirit that is not proven by modern science.

But much like ancient teachings and old scrolls, these too are temporal, even if they are more accurate and verifiable. Despite their confidence, there remains no theory of everything that manages to bring all their so-called ‘provable’ ideas together. In contrast, a growing number of out-of-the-box thought leaders are back to being open to the possibility of unifying science, God, and you.

Incidentally, few materialists entertain the possibility that the myth-makers were simply the materialists of their day. They poke fun at the Bronze Age barbarians who lacked the tools to understand electricity or had no microscopes to better understand the spread of disease.

And yet, those same barbarians were simply relying on the plain tools of sight, sound, and mind to piece together an understanding of reality. Are the materialists open to the possibility that their tools, no matter how advanced, could be outdone by even more powerful measures in the future?

Who would be the myth-maker, then?

Putting Faith as a Path to Truth

Perhaps all this hesitation about the God of everything could really be stemming from a misunderstanding of faith or at least spirituality.

Many of the enduring major religions would traditionally step forward here, citing how the reality of the spirit, the mind, and the soul points to the higher reality of the divine. Die-hard proponents of scientism would then feel compelled to insist that the material universe is all there is because they do not see faith as a valid instrument of understanding reality purely because its methodology is ‘outdated.’

And yet, theirs is just as much an act of faith in their new, temporal instruments.

All the while, the truly honest inquirers would find it more plausible that some ultimate higher being is drawing it all together.

Want to go on a deeper dive into how the higher of reality of God brings everything together? You can read it all in Science, God and You – The Ancient Theory of Everything. Copies are available over at Barnes & Noble.