What I see is people stumbling around trying to find the Truth. It's all well and good. Most people, if not all, that eventually find that Truth do a lot of stumbling around. I know I did. There was a short time there that I had allowed my thinking to be taken astray by a non-believer and thought that there really was no God.

But as the Bible says, God is the Good Shepherd and came looking for his lost sheep (me). Also, "Phillipians l 1:6 ... He Who hath begun a good work in you will perform [it] until the day of Jesus Christ..." He has given us free will, but when He wants you in his "sheep fold" He'll keep nudging and nudging.

It has been my experience that a true relationship with Jesus/God is strictly a personal thing, so to think that there is a "collective conscious/unconscious" is an impossibility for me. I'm not saying it doesn't exist. I'm just speaking from my own experience. The Good Shepherd knows each of his sheep and calls them by name. John 10:14 "I am the good shepherd, and know my [sheep], and am known of mine." This also means that we know His voice. We know that it is HE who calls us.

As for Jung, I like what I know of him, but I don't go along with his idea of God and who He really is. The way I read it, Jung puts humans first and then God. It's the other way around. God is Truth, God in body (Jesus) is The Way and the Life. He is above everything, the Alpha and the Omega. Without God, there certainly wouldn't be humanity, much less Jung and his theories/knowledge.

For those who think they could shred the Bible ten ways from continuous, try doing it with someone who knows and understands it. Not here, though. Maybe by PM?

PS Like in everything else, there is good and bad... and there is "different." So with Christianity. In my experience and in fact, also, there are different kinds of Christians. There are "legalistic Christians, "Fundamentalist Christians" and then there are those like me that have had more personal experiences that live more by Faith than what is in textbooks. I'm one of these. I live by Faith, not by sight. I believe what the Bible says through and through because it's been proven to me to be Truth before I even knew what it said. I've had experiences, questioned them and then was led to read it as fact in the Bible. There's not much argument there at all!

No way would I tell someone that has come to their Faith in a different way that they are "wrong." It is THEIR walk with God, not mine. Like I said before, it's an individual relationship that one has with God.