"...No one comes to the Father except through Me..."

[WhiteTara]

9. Michelangelo tells a different story.

In his Sistine Chapel ceiling painting , human and god touch directly.

My question to Christians is this. If God is everywhere, how can God be outside you and sit up in the sky? I contend that if God is everywhere, God is me.

Christians consider my gender an original sin. We females are not sinners; no, we are the sin. I can not accept a God that considers me less than sentient. I can't even discuss the sexual proclivities of the many churches' fathers.

Having read the Bible from cover to cover, the most important (after the 2 commandments- Love God with all your heart, mind and soul, and the second is like unto it; Love thy neighbor as thyself.) But...My Father's House has many mansions...so I went out to discover the different mansions of God and discovered many ways to say the name of God/dess.

So, like Michelangelo, I don't need an intercession to know God. To know God, you must understand yourself. And when you look at all the aggregates, you find there is no self .. you are not your body, speech or thought, your atoms are so unstable that you seem to be stable in your form.

The Buddhists say that form is formlessness, formlessness is form.

I think we are all totally responsible for our thoughts and actions and that Jesus died for our sins is a cop-out to excuse our personal actions and thoughts.

But that is just me and we each can only live our lives to the best of our abilities and I wish you well in your spiritual endeavors.