AboutJoyce D Expertise Religious Educator (former director for six years, lifelong Unitarian Universalist - "UU"). I`m familiar with UU history & resources on the internet. I belong to many UU forums, have attended many congregations, and have been a delegate at the UU General Assembly.
Question I really don't have a question, but would like to warn you about not believing in the infallible Word of God. God have mercy on your poor soul. It would only be a fool who would expect to reach Heaven when embracing such beliefs when my Heavenly Father clearly states He is a jealous God. There is only one way to Heaven and that is through the confession and belief in the Lord Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Hell will be filled with those who try to altar the Word of God to satisfy themselves. Praise God, I will not be there to see their faces as they are filled with regret for such choices. What do you say to this?
Answer Unitarian Universalists have varying beliefs about God. People who don't believe in God don't believe in Heaven either so they don't expect to go there.
What proof do you have of Heaven & Hell? They are beliefs. We do not believe that there is a one and only right way to believe and we have many sources:
* Direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures, which moves us to a renewal of the spirit and an openness to the forces which create and uphold life;
* Words and deeds of prophetic women and men which challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion, and the transforming power of love;
* Wisdom from the world's religions which inspires us in our ethical and spiritual life;
* Jewish and Christian teachings which call us to respond to God's love by loving our neighbors as ourselves;
* Humanist teachings which counsel us to heed the guidance of reason and the results of science, and warn us against idolatries of the mind and spirit.
* Spiritual teachings of earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature.
I'm sorry your religion gives you only one and burdens you with the belief that millions of people, who are supposedly all God's children, have such an eternal fate. I believe that my fate is to become one with Nature or "God" which either IS God or a part of what God created. I believe we cannot know all of what is possible of Nature/God, but I don't believe "God the Creator" would create me with intelligence that I'm not supposed to use.
