First - We believe that God is love and is actively loving, accepting and forgiving of all. Jesus said, “They will know you are my disciples(disciplined ones) because of the demonstration of your love” Jesus never once mentioned anything about having the proper doctrinal statement. He said, “Love God and love your neighbor as you love yourself and on this hang all the law”(all rules).
Any doctrine(core teaching basis) other than love creates separation and is in opposition to the prayer Jesus told his disciples to pray. “I pray that you would all be one even as the Father and I are one.” Love is not really about having the proper mental precepts - it is simply a manifestation of an intimate relationship with God that is birthed through the closeness & nearness of the presence of God within.
I suppose if I must confess to a doctrinal statement it would have to be the BE-attitudes which are purported to be from the mouth of Jesus and are not someone else's interpretation of what they THINK he taught. We are all made in the image of this One Spirit (love) and are all children of the same One Spirit (love). When we live from Love we are expressing God. There is One God with many differing expressions and approaches. God is spirit and is everywhere present and IN ALL which makes sense - since we are all children of God.
My definition of all is that all means all.
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