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    The Unity Church (Christian)

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    Quote Originally Posted by apfilosa View Post
    The Unity Church (Christian)
    Does your church have a website ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by apfilosa View Post
    The Unity Church (Christian)
    Is this the one you embrace?


    Unity Church
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_Church

    Unity, known informally as Unity Church, is a New Thought Christian organization that publishes the Daily Word devotional publication. It describes itself as a "positive, practical Christianity" which "teach[es] the effective daily application of the principles of Truth taught and exemplified by Jesus Christ" and promotes "a way of life that leads to health, prosperity, happiness, and peace of mind."[1]....




    ...God

    Unity Church views God as spiritual energy which is present everywhere and is available to all people. Members of the church believe that God only seeks to express the highest good through everyone and everything.[16] According to Unity co-founder Charles Fillmore:

    God is not a person who has set creation in motion and gone away and left it to run down like a clock. God is Spirit, infinite Mind, the immanent force and intelligence everywhere manifest in nature. God is the silent voice that speaks into visibility all the life there is.[17]

    He later states that:

    God is your higher self and is in constant waiting upon you. He loves to serve, and will attend faithfully to the most minute details of your daily life.[18]

    Jesus


    Unity Church followers believe in the divinity of Jesus, but only in the sense that all humans are the children of God and share that divine potential. They believe that Jesus was a master teacher who expressed this divine potential and sought to show others how to do the same.[19] Unity uses the term "Christ" to mean the divinity in all people. For them Jesus is the great example of the Christ in physical form.[20][21]....






    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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    Its great to see some of you are interested. I will keep you posted on the details as we get closer to the date!

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    Yes that's us, hope you can join us on those days! We believe that we can effect change through prayer!

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    Quote Originally Posted by apfilosa View Post
    Yes that's us, hope you can join us on those days! We believe that we can effect change through prayer!
    That sounds a lot like my guess in the other thread :

    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    (Jesus is) perhaps one out of many messiahs or christs, all exhibiting characteristics of an impersonal god/force ? I'm just guessing....

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    More detail...apfilosa, feel free to correct anything you believe this article misrepresents about your church and beliefs..


    Religion & Spirituality
    Christianity

    by Jack Zavada
    Updated January 02, 2017
    Unity, formerly known as the Unity School of Christianity, has its roots in the New Thought movement, a blend of positive thinking, spiritism, eastern religions, and Christianity, popular in the late 19th century. Although Unity and Christian Science have the same background in New Thought, Unity is separate from that organization.
    Located in Unity Village, Missouri, Unity is the parent organization of the Association of Unity Churches International.


    The two groups hold the same beliefs.
    Unity does not profess any of the Christian creeds. Its Diversity Statement says Unity is free of discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender, age, creed, religion, national origin, ethnicity, physical disability or sexual orientation.
    Unity Church Beliefs

    Atonement - Unity does not refer to Jesus Christ's atonement or sacrificial death on the cross for humanity's sin in its statement of beliefs.

    Baptism - Baptism is a symbolic act, a mental and spiritual process in which the person aligns with the spirit of God.
    Bible - Unity's founders, Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, considered the Bible to be history and allegory. Their interpretation of Scripture was that it is "a metaphysical representation of humankind's evolutionary journey toward spiritual awakening." While Unity calls the Bible its "basic textbook," it also says it "honors the universal truths in all religions and respects each individual's right to choose a spiritual path."

    Communion - "Spiritual communion takes place through prayer and meditation in the silence. The word of Truth is symbolized by the bread or body of Jesus Christ. The conscious realization of God-life is symbolized by the wine or blood of Jesus Christ."
    God - "God is the one power, all good, everywhere present, all wisdom." Unity speaks of God as Life, Light, Love, Substance, Principle, Law and Universal Mind.

    Heaven, Hell - In Unity, heaven and hell are states of mind, not places. "We make our heaven or hell here and now by our thoughts, words and deeds," Unity says.

    Holy Spirit - The only mention of the Holy Spirit in Unity's statement of beliefs refers to spiritual baptism signifying the inflow of the Holy Spirit. Unity says the "spirit of God" lives within each person.

    Jesus Christ - Jesus is a master teacher of universal truths and the Way-Shower in Unity teachings. "Unity teaches that the spirit of God lived in Jesus, just as it lives in every person." Jesus expressed his divine potential and showed others how to express their divinity, which Unity calls Christ. Unity does not refer to Jesus as God, Son of God, Savior, or Messiah.

    Original Sin - Unity believes that humans are inherently good. It believes the Fall occurred not in the Garden of Eden by Adam and Eve's disobedience to God, but in consciousness, whenever a person resorts to negative thinking.

    Salvation - "Salvation is now," according to Unity, not something that happens after death. Unity teaches that each individual produces salvation when they turn from negative thoughts to positive thoughts.

    Sin - In Unity teaching, sin is a separation from God by harboring thoughts of fear, anxiety, worry and doubt.
    It can be corrected by returning to thoughts of love, harmony, joy and peace.

    Trinity - Unity does not mention the Trinity in its statement of beliefs. It does not address God as God the Father and does not address Jesus as the Son of God.

    Continue reading here..


    https://www.thoughtco.com/unity-beli...actices-700122

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    Apfilosa, do you believe there is a Hell? Are all people going to Heaven?

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    Apfilosa, do you believe there is a Hell?

    Are all people going to Heaven?

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