I believe in God, and that God is life.

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I believe that life in the beginning was a point in the otherwise nullity of time and space. This point was everything: all being, all force, all understanding. Life, this point in the nullity, was and is God. Out of this point in the nullity arose the universe in its totality. By fiat, life summoned matter into being at the moment now called the Big Bang. At that moment God was dynamically omniscient and omnipotent. Since then God’s omniscience and omnipotence have been latent, being embedded in the fabric of the universe. God’s omnipresence has been unchanged from the beginning.

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I believe that although everything is an outgrowth of God, it is life per se that is God, the inherent authority in the universe. God’s omniscience and omnipotence being latent, it is now only through the exertion of will by living beings that such omniscience and omnipotence are expressed; and such expression is constrained by the limitations of the channels in which it moves. Furthermore, omniscience extends only to what exists: The future does not exist, and therefore cannot be known, not even by God.

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I believe that will exists, being exists, beings exist; and that will is the unique aspect of being, exclusive to life. God is will. Life demonstrates the exertion of will, its spread in space and time. God’s purpose is the underlying mechanism driving this process, a process of divine self-actualization. In the pursuit of an understanding of this divine self-actualization, we have reason alone, interpreting the underlying patterns of reality we see as manifestations of God’s purpose, thus basing our formulations of divine purpose entirely on our perceptions of reality. Reason is divine revelation.

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I believe that all thinkers are the servants of God to the extent that their reason is pure and significant, and that the greatest servant of God was Charles Darwin.

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I believe that life, being God, is the metaphysical realm. The physical afterlife is offspring. The ethotic afterlife is the creation and sharing of knowledge and wisdom. The belief in God and the fact of identity together provide rational hope for a metaphysical afterlife; however, such hope is entirely intangible and therefore should never be factored into the exertion of will, whether on the individual or societal basis.

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I believe that God is neither male nor female, nor neuter. You and I, and every living thing, together are God. Not He, not She, but We.

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I believe that there are three sacraments. Bonding, in all its forms, and mourning are two sides of one coin. But the greatest, most primal, sacrament of all is the procreative act, the holiest act in which any living being can engage.

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And I believe that the exertion of will, its spread in both space and time, is the mission of all living things, impressed on the very depths of our beings by God Ourself, and that homo sapiens, in critical ways the most advanced species of life, is uniquely capable, uniquely responsible, to undertake the spread of this mission to the ends of the universe.