If God is everywhere, and if God has made all of us in his image, we can conclude that all of us may, if we choose, engage with him. We can all find a way to connect with our creator. Regardless of the religion or spiritual perspective, we can admit to the ubiquity of the human pursuit of the divine.
I thought of this often as I read Witches in America recently. It's a compendium and meditation on the various expressions of Wicca currently sweeping through the West. It faithfully records the efforts of hundreds of Wiccans to commune with their perception of the divine, to connect with the "oneness" they believe is there for them. I found some parts quite moving, struck by the passion with which the Wiccans strive to find "it."
Are these Wiccans wrong to pursue the divine? Are they wrong to seek wholeness? Of course not. Would that we all seek God our creator. On the other hand, many Christians, particularly those in the West, are quick to recite John 14:6, in which Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but by Me." Jesus is the only way to God.
This I do not dispute. For those ignorant of Christian theology (not a Wiccan excuse), yet who earnestly seek after God, however, the picture gets more complicated. But it does not for God. He knows everyone's heart. God knows where every person is at.
I hope we encounter many surprises on the other side. I hope that, in the end, we will all see that when everything is said and done, only thing will remain: God. And in this life, this is a God whom we will never know everything there is to know about him in full. Eternity is there, yes, heaven as well as hell, and, yes, one day the cosmos will be no more, but how can we, from our present finite vantage point, know, fully, what all this will look like--and what it all, really, means?
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