Stop Believing In God To Know God

Our highest part is
pure consciousness, absolute consciousness, ultimate consciousness,
God consciousness.

Hebrews 13:5
God said,
“Never will I leave you;
never will I forsake you.”

Apart from not knowing who said God said this, could this statement be more practical?

As long as we believe there is a God ‘out there’, we will never realise that the truth is already within us all, and therefore we no longer have to believe. As long as we believe, we will never know. Why would anyone want us to believe rather than know?

Now read:
“ Never will pure consciousness leave you;
never will pure consciousness forsake you.”

For anything to be known, there first has to be a knowing, an awareness, a consciousness. It is consciousness that will never leave you, because you are consciousness. In its pure state, consciousness is just pure consciousness. It’s what, in essence, we are.

Our fate is in our own hands: either we stay in ignorance or we awaken to our enlightened nature. We always had a choice, but maybe it was kept from us.

Which makes more sense?