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Copyright 2010 Greg Baenziger

There is a natural tendency for all creatures to find their own moral center behind their basis for existence and behavior.  We do this with every choice we make, with every action we carry out, and with every word we utter.  Thus, all ideas, beliefs, speech and actions resulting from individual creatures represent their moral center, spirit and soul.  Religious beliefs are naturally evolving and personal, whether or not an individual is constrained by others.  Religion should remain the sole domain of an individual and not of a church.  Each of us forms our own basic core beliefs and we should hold true to what we believe.  By our ideas, speech and actions we project what we believe people, God and our soul are, and what they represent.

God is alive in each of us. There is not one of us that God did not create. 

Do you believe there is just one god?

Do you believe that God created the heavens and the earth and all the creatures that populated the heavens and the earth?

Do you believe that God is all-knowing and all-powerful?

Do you believe that God is still present?

Then none of us can exist without God’s acceptance, none of us can act without God’s approval, and we thereby act out God's will and live in God’s heaven, purgatory or hell.

The fate of each of us lies first in our own hands, in the hands of others, in the forces of nature, and through all of these in the hands of God.  God is with us every moment of every day.  We are part of God.  Each of our lives is intertwined with the rest of the universe and with God.  Each of our actions affects everyone.  We participate in creating our own heaven or hell, HERE and NOW!


Natural Christian relates to the beliefs, which include the following basic premises:

God is pervasive throughout nature and each of us, and is NOT a separate entity;

          God is everything, there is nothing but God!

          God is all powerful, all power comes from and is God’s power.

          God is all knowing, all that exists does so in harmony with God.

          God is spirit, meaning, order, substance and the basis of ALL.

          God is perfection. There is no imperfection.

          Know God as all that is, revere all that surrounds you, as part of God, and
          especially learn that you also are part of God. Each creature, each rock and tree,
          each motion, and each thought is part of God and the manifestation of God. Nature
          and all universes are part of God. To believe otherwise is to discount the power
          of God.


each of us through our spirit or soul represents our part of God;

          Seek and find your own beliefs and relationship with God, so that you will believe
          strongly in those beliefs, live by them, and be responsible for your own actions or
          inaction.  Do not rely on the stated beliefs of others as your own.
  Seek a way of
          life that reflects your beliefs and behave according to your beliefs, because your
          behavior represents your beliefs, your soul, and what you believe God is.   Create
          your own destiny – it is your own Heaven, purgatory or Hell.


a Natural Christian chooses to represent the more loving behavior and teachings of Jesus Christ, consistent with the natural nurturing behavior of animals rather than the harsher autocratic or jungle survival behavior that seems to dominate the world;

          Leviticus {19:18} "Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children
                                      of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
              L
ove thy neighbor as thy would thyself, for thy neighbor is as thyself part of God.

          Mathew {5:39} "But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall
                                   smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also."
              Turn the other cheek, so that you are not tempted to do evil, to avoid the "eye
              for an eye" evil of revenge, to return good will for ill, and to dose the fire with
              water rather than to fan the flames of anger and violence.

          Mathew {7:12} "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to
                                   you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets."
              Do unto to others as you would have them do unto you.
          Or the corollary:
              Do not do unto others that which you would not have them do unto you.

          Exodus {20:13} "Thou shalt not kill."
              Thou shall not kill
!  Many associate this only with the killing of humans, but why not all
              of God's creatures?  All creatures are part of God!

a Natural Christian seeks to find and preserve harmony and balance in our world, to learn of nature and God, and to find God within oneself and outside oneself in every other being and thing;

          Seek truth and understanding of God’s Creation, so that we can exist in harmony
          with God. Harmony with God is the coexistence with Nature, a stewardship over
          God’s bounty, neither destroying, hording or wasting what is provided, preserving
          the beauty, the renewable and the non-renewable resources, making resources
          available equitably and freely to all, finding ways to renew resources to support
          life without damaging or polluting, and to protect life and Nature. Harmony is
          maintaining a peaceful and enlightened civilization, where no creature does
          without the basic necessities of life, where freedom and rights are maintained,
          where security is maintained against intimidation, crime and violence, and where
          all can live their own way of life.


Nature is God’s church and our existence is God’s religion;

          Seek only to learn for yourself how to recognize and live within God's church and
          God's religion. There is no need for man’s churches or organized religion beyond
          providing the framework for making the choices known, for people to find their
          own way.


and

a Natural Christian seeks to promote peace, love and our part of God through our words, actions and behavior to the world, thereby seeking to eliminate violence, war, discrimination, hatred and the greed that causes these and other evils in our world.


God, as we see in heaven about us, is all that exists and is all that is important, existing over ALL and within ALL. 

Through God all that can happen will happen, as we can see unfolding before us. 

Within God we are born, we live, we die, and we are born again, receiving all knowledge and sustenance through God.

We endeavor to see God, to know God, and to know God's will, through understanding;
to seek God's heaven on earth; to learn to see with our minds and our hearts in order to find the
    best way to live and exist within God's greatness, in harmony with the spirit of God;
to see the truth around us and in all things;
to learn to use God's great strength to face the forces that confront us and to use that strength to support us in facing God's truth;
to sustain ourselves and to pass sustenance on to others;
to avoid trespass and offense against others and to understand and to forgive the trespasses and
    offenses against us;
to light the way for others to follow; and
to recognize the difference between good and evil, and to choose good, seizing all opportunities for
    good and avoiding evil.  

God is truly magnificent, existing in the past, in our present, and for all time. 

Through God's grace, God exists in each of us, in our bodies, in our minds, and in our hearts.

Copyright 2010 Greg Baenziger