Fear of difference creates a very narrow, exclusionary, and stunted religion and life, the very antithesis of what God invites us into.
The most fundamental effect of our fall from grace and the development of the ego is dualistic thinking. The assumption of a universe where there are only two contrasting, mutually exclusive choices or realities. This thinking is bound by either/or, bad/good, negative/positive and has a powerful effect on our belief system and actions.
In the realm of the divine, the life and world of truth that Christ calls us to, there is no duality, everything is one.
Throughout the New Testament, salvation is frequently presented as a process of unification.
"That we may be one in God" (John 17:21)
"That we become partakers of God's divine nature." (2 Peter 1:4)
"That we, beholding the glory of the Lord, be changed into his likeness, from glory to glory." (2 Corinthians 3:18)
"That God will be 'all in all'" (1 Corinthians 15:28)
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