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I was recently asked “What are you trying to accomplish?” concerning all my research and reading about other religions and spiritual quests. My answer was quick: Jesus said the way to eternal life is this:

“Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
He said to him, “What is written in the law? What is your reading of it?” So he answered and said, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’* and ‘your neighbor as yourself.'” And He said to him, “You have answered rightly; do this and you will live.” Luke 10:25-28

I love myself by respecting my person, by facing my demons, accepting my limitations, understanding how and why I think and act the way I do, being radically honest with myself and taking 100% responsibility for my life. And so, when I try to live out loving my neighbor as myself, I seek first to understand.

I have found that the more I learn about the foundations of other faiths, the more I see the Oneness of God throughout time and culture. The more I look at the relgious institutions that come from those origins, the more alike in arrogance and error they seem. I do not believe that all paths lead to God – only paths that lead to God, lead to God. For me that means following the teaching of Jesus quoted above. It has nothing to do with deciding who is going to hell and who isn’t.