I have come to understand that beliefs always include a degree of error and furthermore they are literally a way of taking a thought and declaring it is true without actually knowing. For this reason I aim to remove all beliefs and so I am just left with thoughts and knowingness.

There is a continuum which we call life which involves individuation within creation into different beings - however, the 'medium' within which this occurs is also god. The medium is the feminine, magnetic will/mother and it is almost totally denied on Earth (especially in religion) so we are largely ignorant of it. Since humans have evolved in ignorance of this key aspect of who we are, we are left with a polarised reality where we strongly experience many different ideas of our relation to god. The best understandings I have on these topics have come from this book series. They explain that while all is one and each human is an extension of god - it is also true that there is a main 'focus' of the essence of god at the center of this universe so it is the case that there is an actual 'god being' but it is also true that we are parts of that being, in a sense, too.. So as an analogy, if we were to go 'there' it might be something like an octopus being visited by one of it's own tentacles that was hugely long and which rarely visited it's main body. Something like that ;)