You may think you believe in God, but do you believe from the allness of God?  Or does your faith waiver between God as substance and your waning dividends, between God as health and the corner drugstore, between God as your guide and the daily horoscope?

If all things exist in and have being out of the allness of God, how can there be any other power?  If the principle is 2 plus 2 equals 4, how can there be a force that tempts us to get 3? The doctrine of evil as a power, and of Satan as the prince of darkness, is a blight upon true religion. It is a rationalistic philopophy that evolved out of our inability to understand or justify human experience, and the attempt to find a scapegoat. Without a realistic understanding of the first commandment, we ask, "How could God permit the good religious person to suffer so?" Or, "Why would God cause the tragic earthquake that destroyed so much life and property?" But to even ask the question implies that we have not made the breakthrough to the inner meaning of the commandment, "The Lord our God is one Lord."
The Answer: MetaMorality by Rev. Eric Butterworth. The quote is from the chapter "The First Commandment"