The Christian God cannot be fathomed because He is apart from man i.e. not on our level.
This is why there is only one belief, that Jesus died for our sins, and faith in salvation through that belief.
Though a part of us may be on the level of God, that is the soul which I consider metaphorically as a sliver of Him created by His hand. Though the offer of immortal life is a metaphor for something of which the Bible does not address because of the anathema of reincarnation.
Were reincarnation offered, people wouldn't toil in this life for immortal life by aligning with Christianity, because the morally weak would use suicide as a way to avoid their responsibility both to society and to themselves to live a full life.
That's why I would rather have a New Age kind of Christianity than just the fundamentals of Christianity.
Then I privately could use my Buddhist heritage to fill in the blanks when God's elite are at a loss for words. Though, Buddhism does not promote reincarnation; it only teaches that karma is a causal effect going back through one's lifetime both via one's ancestors and especial by one's actions in the here-and-now
In my eyes, both the Buddha, Jesus and God are forms of the Higher Power, and thus are God as I know Him.
How do I explain this admission of heterodoxy except as a wonderful series of compromises?
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