Reply #6: I thought of myself as a universalist with a small 'u', but this does put

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a lot of what I believe into words. However, I need to believe in the soul, so without defining 'God', I can accept the use of the word-concept of God to adopt the Hindu belief of the evolution of the soul on a journey to oneness (to the best of my understanding).

I just can't believe in a world dictated by Satan and one that is exclusionary of all the people who came before us, those living now, and those to come who have never been baptized or who won't be baptized in a Christian faith; a faith of teachers, preachers, and followers who believe that only they have a right to salvation, that everyone else will rot in hell, and therefore, they are superior (and, for some, that those who are not with them, can be or should be eliminated).

The human mind can really get messed up by the limitations of 'messages' others use to shape the universe and our potential.