Do you acknowledge Jesus Christ to be God’s Son and the Savior of the world, needed because our sin, and YOUR Savior for the sake of your own sins?
I read your excerpt from Thomas Troward.
Thomas Troward - “Thomas Troward (1847–1916) was an English author whose works influenced the New Thought Movement and mystic Christianity.”
“The New Thought movement is a philosophical movement which developed in the United States in the 19th century, following the teachings of Phineas Quimby. There are numerous smaller groups, most of which are incorporated in the International New Thought Alliance.[1][2]
“The concept of New Thought (sometimes known as “Higher Thought”[3]) promotes the ideas that Infinite Intelligence, or God, is everywhere, spirit is the totality of real things, true human selfhood is divine, divine thought is a force for good, sickness originates in the mind, and “right thinking” has a healing effect.[4][5]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Troward
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought
“The concept of New Thought (sometimes known as “Higher Thought”[3]) promotes the ideas that Infinite Intelligence, or God, is everywhere, spirit is the totality of real things, true human selfhood is divine, divine thought is a force for good, sickness originates in the mind, and “right thinking” has a healing effect.[4][5]”
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Yep, that’s about it.
Another thing I often contemplate: the life of Jesus seems to very closely repeat key events/facts in the lives of previous, much older Saviors. Some people take this as a reason to discount the Gospel story, considering it just a re-hashing of pagan folklore.
On the contrary, I find it to be an even greater reason to try and understand what the story *means* and is saying to us: where there’s smoke, there’s fire. I don’t believe the truth of it was first introduced to the world with the story of Jesus, but that every time it is introduced it comes in a more accessible way, and Jesus may have been the ultimate culmination of God’s revealed truth to us.
I can only answer your question by saying that I acknowledge the *meaning* of Jesus Christ as God’s Son and Our Savior. His word is the way to the ‘law of perfect liberty’. (And while I probably don’t interpret his words quite the same way that you do in every respect, I’m glad that you have something that works for you.)
-JT