1.         If we believe God's nature is both vengeful wrath and loving, how can we have a fully empowered, loving relationship with God?

2.         If God is solely a God of love, then what effect does this have on the traditional Christian doctrines of the sacrifice of Jesus' life for the atonement and redemption of mankind from sin?

Many people who come from traditional Judeo-Christian backgrounds were raised with a theology that no longer serves their spiritual growth. Their traditional * theology depicts God as filled with vengeful wrath and love. How can we have a powerful, loving relationship with God if the descriptions of God's nature are in opposition? We cannot.

Not knowing how God will react to their actions has caused many sincere believers to mistrust God and to develop a co-dependent relationship to God. We need consistent beliefs about God as a loving God in order to develop trust in all God's actions.Only then will believers want to be like God, which allows the possibility of expressing all the potential of that relationship through their lives. We must have consistent and clear beliefs about God as a loving God in order to align our energies with God-Mind energies within ourselves.

* the-ol-o-gy 1. the study of God and the relationship between God and the universe; study of religious doctrines and matters of divinity, 2.a specific form or system of this study, as expounded by a particular religion or denomination.

As a young adult, Icame to the conclusion that a faith that accepts conflicting, irrational, and illogical beliefs about God is an unreasonable faith. It is reasonable, I believed, to have faith that God exists. It is reasonable to have faith that Jesus came to give us an example of how to live life filled with love of our self and love of others. It is reasonable to have faith that life exists after death. It is reasonable to have faith that Jesus showed us that this is possible. But it is unreasonable faith to believe that God deliberately created man imperfectly so that He would have to send His Son to earth to die for this imperfection. I concluded that it is reasonable to have faith that God has only one nature in an eternal universe: Totally and wholly loving. But, Ididn't know how to prove it then.