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			I don't believe we are God, but I believe all of us are a facet of a Universal "power" or spirit, that many people call God.  I believe God is within us, not up in the sky or out there somewhere, running the show.   
 
So, in that belief, I don't believe in a God agenda, like President of the Universe.  If I had some kind of power to set the commandments of the world (putting aside the likely existence of other worlds), I think it would only be "Be good to one another".  All the commandments stem from that one. 
 
I don't believe in the idea of sin, because whoever comes to power (even "God") gets to decide what the sins are going to be.  I can't picture coming up with a list of sins so heinous that they cover every culture in every place and time.  What we consider repugnant was or is considered very normal somewhere. 
 
I don't believe in the "traditional" heaven or hell, so that's hard to answer, too.  I believe something happens to our spirits after death, but what that is, I have no idea.  Maybe we stay here, close to people we loved (or haunting the places that either we loved or that hurt us). 
 
I think it would be impossible to get everybody to agree on a list of "very bad things", similar to the sins list.  How bad do you have to be to go way over the line into non-redemption?  I can't picture drawing that line as "God".
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
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