According to Neale Walsch : ” We are each of us, a manifestation of God’s energy and how we use the energy determines how we experience the life that we live.”

Walsch continues: “We create our own reality.”

“This happens as God : “… placing in the hands of intelligent beings everywhere, the same mechanisms, the same tools, the same instruments and powers of creation, then giving all of those life forms free will to determine how they wish to use their divine ability both individually and collectively in the manifestation of their experience.”

Awesome. But what puzzles me is the use of the term “Those life forms”. I grew up believing that only human beings have free will, not animals ,not plants!

“Put in simple language, humanity (and all of life) is God’s expressing and experiencing itself. Human beings are the individuation of divinity in particular form.”

To me the above paragraphs are the 21st century interpretation of what I learned from the Catholic Catechism that we are made to the image and likeness of God.