What if there really was only one God? What if there wasn’t a Hindu God, and a Muslim God, and a Christian God, and a Buddhist Nirvana, and an Indigenous God, and a Jewish God, and a Christian God, and a Wiccan Goddess, and a New Age God, and…all the other Gods that I haven’t mentioned?
What ever gave anyone the idea that all of these Gods listed in the previous paragraph were different Gods as opposed to varying
understandings of the same God? Christians claim to be monotheists, meaning people who believe there is one God, and then turn around and insist that their God is somehow different that the other Gods listed above. What do we make of that contradiction?
In fact, there is one God, called by many names. Which name a particular person uses to call on God is affected by several factors, including the part of the world in which they were born and have lived, their cultural heritage, their ethnicity, their time in history, and the understanding of God they have inherited from their friends, family, and ancestors. It is true that understandings of God vary even within a single culture, but that doesn’t mean that multiple Divinities exist. Rather it means that varied opinions about God exist among varied people.
The beginning of the Hebrew, Islamic, and Christian Scriptures all tell of a God who created everything that is and everywhere that is - in other words, every person that ever has or will live and every place that ever has or will exist. Those same people have, over the history of the world, told the story of their journey with God – the God that created them. 
Despite that truth, throughout history people have chosen to learn only from their own myopic view of God. Finally, we have reached the point in history where, as a people, we have become spiritually mature enough to recognize that we all can learn from each other. We now recognize that every great spiritual teacher and every great spiritual tradition offer us insights into the nature of both God and the created order. Christ Enlight calls for full religious and spiritual pluralism. We teach and learn from all of the ancient wisdom traditions. We believe that God dwells in, through, and as all people. This means that not only can we all learn from one another, but we can all access the Divine by listening to the still, small voice within.
That is Good News!
May I say that it is refreshing to see someone comment on the ‘universalisim’ of our shared experience with the one who began it all. Yes. It is refreshing and I thank you. I am going through my own journey. As you are, too. My journey although different from yours is really very much like yours. A.W. Tozer said that if you have a room full of pianos tuned to one tuning fork that they would all be in tune with each other. As opposed to trying to tune to them to each other. This is a great illustration, I think, in how important it is to be a champion of the fact, that you have mentioned, that their is ONE God. In my journey/experience I have found that the Christian view-point says this ONE God brought Himself to the game of life in a big way. And that it is this one act of involvement, only, that is pleasing to Himself. Thereby removing the weight of “duty’ or ‘obligation’ or ‘self-righteousness’ or ‘self-anythingness’. The IT of our being is removed from our ‘proving’ anything. Thus, Freedom. Thus, Life. Thus Christ being the one and only portal from this side to ‘that’ side. I believe the rub comes in with humans/controllers trying to either force this truth or twist this truth to their own design. Ultimately to control, it seems. However they may distort the truth, the truth is there to set us free. Think about it. This ONE God did something that the humanity He created needed and ( I believe ) is irregardless of our acceptance of this in order to validate it as real. However, as an experience with HIm, I believe, He has created this one way as a tremendous source of enlightenment, yes, but mostly as a source of relating. Without the enlightenment of our father on this issue of HIs work through Christ on our behalf I believe that it is still possible to hear his voice, to enjoy his voice, to be moved to enjoy the spirituality that He we are all a part of in this world. But…(and here I’m not so sure)…is it possible to really see the redeemed position that He has purchased for all men without seeing through the eyes of salvation? Because as I see it, Paul the apostle said that if the ressurection is not real then Christianity is a sham. Everything about Christianity stems from this crazy miracle. They saw Jesus rise up physically into the sky. Yikes. The early apostles made it clear in their letters that the crucifiction meant we died with him (spiritually) and the ressurection meant that we rose with Him (spiritually) and His ascension meant that we ascended with Him (spiritually) and THAT means that we are seated in Christ in the heavenlies (spirtually) over sin, this world and Satan. What’s my point? ( I know that I’m preaching to the choir) My point is this…from that position in Christ we can be as He was in the world. An agent of ‘love’, ‘miracles’, ‘healing’, ‘forgiveness’, etc… My favorite thing is that we can close our eyes and see the God given vision/picture of what we desire to happen in our lives our loved ones and pray that into existence. I guess this is the thing that I desire for all people to be able to do for one another and I just don’t know how it’s done outside of the enlightenment of what the ONE God provided through Jesus. Just my rambling. Peace.
Well! That’s quite a missive! I would just say that, yes, it is entirely possible to see the Christ story and experience outside of atonement theology, and millions of people do precisely that. If by salvation you mean “Christ’s sacrificial death on the cross, etc, etc” then I couldn’t disagree more. While it’s certainly true that most of the institutional Church has chosen, since the fourth Century, to see it that way, I find it to be extremely problematic for a number of reasons. None of that is to say that I have any problem with you seeing it that way. If that works for you, that’s fine with me!