Book 2 . God of Love - A Loving-God Theology

Introduction — 

The Loving-God Theology develops directly from the Pre-creation Theology to bring us into a personal relationship with the Creator, a relationship where we are learning how to develop our thinking as a “creator in training.” It is with our minds that we form the energetic resources of the universe into what we need, want, and desire. The challenge is to mold our thinking to that of the Creator so that our lives become sustainable in the largest perspectives of our life and living.

With God's unlimited power, existence outside the confines of time, and an unlimited creative potential, The Creator appears to have only begun to express Itself!
 
God has only one nature.
When people believe in a god with two natures, they lead themselves into deception as to the true nature of God. God cannot be both loving and spiteful, loving and resentful, loving and jealous, loving and vengeful, constant and inconstant, consistent and inconsistent. God is not divided in nature or at odds with Itself.

Looking at it another way, God is not capricious, impulsive, whimsical, fickle, inconsistent, inconstant, or imperfect. God cannot be perfect and imperfect, impulsive and thoughtful, fickle and true because such inconsistencies are contrary to the oneness of an eternal, creative nature, contrary to becoming, to unfoldment, to the eternal expression of allpotential. Creation would have collapsed if God's nature were conflicting or changeable. It is a reasonable conclusion to know that God has only one nature.

God has only one nature, perfect and loving, because all the other paths of logic and reason lead us to places that end. The path of one-nature, wholeness, leads us unendingly toward a greater and more complete revelation of what God is. The opposite of love, which is hate, leads to limitation, finite and diminishing growth, and contraction of self. God is not just a little bit evil, sinful, or bad. Any inconsistency in the nature of God would have become magnified over the eons of time since the beginning of creation and inherent in the act of creation. Any blemish or imperfection would have become as evident as the development of rot from one apple in a barrel of apples, where the whole barrel, over time, becomes rotten and maggot infested.

If we could view the universe, this world, without the errant behavior of self-willed individuals, we would see a universe that is ultimately and absolutely good. So, where does the negative and evil that we see come from? From God? No, it is from self-willed, errant people. What errant people will to do is not a reflection of The Creator's will. We can say then that God's nature is not dualistic, nor is the universe. The conclusion that "forces of light" and "forces of evil" exist is simply a conclusion made from observations of human behavior. God and the universe are only good, only benevolent, and universally generous. When we align our will with the loving energy of God, we begin to see and feel the rightness of reality.
 
God is good.
If we disregard the ill-behaved manners of self-willed people, some of whom seem to muck up this universal pattern of beauty, we can see that the universe as a whole is one of order, inherent logic, and an ultimate expression of greater reason and wisdom. It is good and is a reflection of its creator. God is good — therefore all that God created is good.
 
God is love.
Since God is The Creator of all that is good, God is the ultimate pattern of creation, the ultimate good, which we would term ''loving." God, who created the entire universe, did so with Its will. Creation, then, is an act of positive action, a positive expression of will. When God expresses Its will, God does so with ultimate goodness, an expression of love. Love is the expression of God's will. Love is God's will, expressed. Therefore, God's nature is loving.

Succinctly, God is love. God created and creates everything as a loving impulse. That which is love in the universe stems from God. That which is not-loving in the universe stems from the free will accorded to man. 

Martin Luther King, Jr. had much to say about the power of love and the ends that love can bring, in his sermon, "Loving Your Enemy."

"Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up...." ("Strength To Love,” 1963:521.)

Taking Dr. King's advice, when we focus our intent and decisions on love, we move out of the simplistic, circular logic of dualistic thinking. Doing so we can move forward into a new development in our relationship with God: as partner and co-creator — an alliance with God that more fully supports our responsibilities to aid the healing of our planet and ourselves —learning to love more completely. 

We will have no confusion about our relationship to others when we understand clearly that our relationship to God has only one nature. When we feel safe in God's universe and we feel safe in our relationship with God, then we can trust God and ourselves to act and make decisions that move us into loving, sacred relationships.