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I have been thinking about religion due to the ALpha course. In the small groups I have brought up the question "why Jesus" in a different meaning. If one has experienced God, felt forgiveness, felt a communication with God and felt at peace with the world and one's role within it (though not necessarily understanding that role), and has done this without directly approaching through Jesus, then why seek Jesus now? What if a person has a faith other than Christianity and yet has approached the divine and felt its blessing through this differing faith? Can the one God not be the same God for all, regardless of names and traditions and paths taken to approach the divine?

Some people in our group are struggling with the concept of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, but this is something I've never struggled much with. I struggle more with a big picture of God and the role of the church. I don't want to be a hypocrite. I believe when taoism says the Tao that can be named is not the true Tao, this is God with a different name. I can believe that Jesus is an incarnation of God and is God, but if I feel in communication with God and haven't approched "through Jesus", would you say I am not really "experiencing God"? A lot of people live good, faith-based lives who believe in paths to God other than Jesus. Not that they would all say Jesus is false or not the Son of God, but that he is not their chosen path.