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Welcome to our
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May God guide and
help me to say the right things?
In this article, we
continue to talk about religions, we must say that religions have served
humanity well for a long time; but they are the same old religions that we have
had for centuries. But today religions are growing stale, because they are old
fashioned, since nobody suggests that they need to be modified, to fall in line
with the times that we live in.
You see, today
everything is changing quickly, because of this new electronic era; but
religions are not changing and are becoming old fashioned. So, if we
believe in a benevolent God of the universe, and that religions are beneficial
to mankind, we should ask ourselves, if we need religious changes, so that
religions can be attractive to people, as they used to be in the past, when
life was simple and electronic did not exist.
So, I believe that
we must decide what can be done, to keep religions in touch with today trend.
We have reasons to believe that in the past religions have contributed a great
deal more to humanity than today, because the people then were simple minded
and accepted religious beliefs just the way it was explained to them.
Today people know a
lot more than they used to know, so, they are asking questions about religious
beliefs, this can be the reason why religions are running out of steam. You see,
mankind has not changed major religious beliefs for about two thousand years,
if we are following religion according to the Bible, or other religious books
that derive from the Bible. One of the reasons is that we believe that
religious beliefs should not change; but if we look closely, we will discover
that religious beliefs can change and remain attached to God and the same
eternal spiritual forces.
We know that there
are other major religions in the world, which don’t have anything to do with
what is written in the Bible, but we in the western world don’t know enough
about them, so, our comments about them is limited. But if we look at the
religions that derive from the Bible, they are the same, that is why religions
start looking stale, and that is why the atheists attack religions. Therefore,
I want to suggest that we need religious people, to do something to give
religions more importance.
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More religious contribution is required.
Today if we ask
ourselves; what have we done about religious beliefs lately? I guess that we
have not done anything. What we are saying here is that after the Bible was
written including the New Testament no major changes in beliefs have happened,
even though the Koran has been written, The Koran -- Simple
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and the authors of these two books assure us that they have written them
according to divine interventions that they personally experienced. However,
these two religious books always refer to happenings written in the Bible; so,
it seems to me that they derive from the Bible, even when they show new
religious happenings and other religious rules.
There are also
smaller and less known religions, which have in common the Bible, since the
Bible is the most important known religious book of the western world; for what
we know it is likely the first five books of the Bible have been written before
any other existing religious book in the world; but some scholars believe that
Hinduism is the first religions recorded; one of the books of Hinduism is the, The Laws of Manu
Anyhow, here let us
talk about western religions, it would be right to assume that Moses wrote or
caused to write these five first books in the Bible, while he was for forty
years in the Sinai desert, since Moses had to keep the record of what was
happening and to lay down the laws that God was giving him. These writing
events were happening about 1500 years before current era, which could be 3500
years ago; therefore, the beginning of the Bible was written by Moses of the
house of Levi a long time ago, these books could have been just notes to record
what was important to remember. After Moses died the leaders that followed
caused their scriber to continue to write, in order to keep the record of the
main religious events; so, for about sixteen hundred years or there about all
the main religious and historic events were thus recorded.
Now we must
understand that the Bible, not only was a religious book of the Israelite, but
it also doubled up as a history book for them until the time of Jesus Christ.
When the Old Testament came to an end; and the New Testament began according to
the Christian Bible and the four Gospel written in it, here the Jews split from
Christianity and they have for religious book the Torah. Judaism 101: Torah which I understand as being the old
Bible plus something that they believe is important to them.
Now, as we have
said, these religious things have been written in the Bible, and the Bible was
a continuous book about the Jews history, but then they stopped writing the
Bible, let us see some of the reasons.
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Why they stopped writing the Bible.
Mankind stopped
writing the Bible, but what could be the reasons? But before I talk about why
we stopped writing the bible, I am going to pray God for guidance, it makes me
feel better, it is as if I ask God permission to write what I think.
Our Father in heaven, to you I turn God Most High,
and I start to pray with all my heart, my soul, and my mind. In the name of
The-Father The-Son and The-Holy Spirit, I am praying and hoping, that the ever-present
guiding force of the Holy Spirit on earth would guide and help me; So that, I can
write these religious writing as humanly as possible according to your will. Father, hear my prayer and guide me! Amen.
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As we have said, from the very beginning the Bible
has been written from the Israelite, today known as the Jews. It is the
religion of the Jews, where Yahweh their God fills all the pages of this
religious book, it is also the history of Israel since the Bible tells us about
everything that the Israelite have done during that time; so, the Old Testament
of the Bible has been written from the time of Moses during exodus to the time
of Jesus Christ; after that the Israelite stopped writing the Bible; so, let us
see what could have been the reasons?
One of these reasons could be that after the Jews
(Israelite) crucified the lord Jesus Christ, because Jesus Christ did not
fulfill what they wanted most, which was that they wanted help from their God
Yahweh to fight their enemies, but Jesus Christ was preaching peace. Anyhow,
Jesus changed the old accepted religious ways; so, the Jews went their own way;
therefore, when this happened religion was split, the Jews went their own way,
while the followers of Jesus Christ followed their beliefs. So, the Jews kept
believing what they believed, and the history book of Israel the Bible was not
continued.
As we Christians know, the Bible ends with the four
Gospels Mathew, Mark, Luke and John, and then the apostle acts various other
writers, some other letters and then it ends with the book of Revelation; this
is how the Christian Bible ends even today. Now it is necessary to point out
that John the writer of Revelation is not the same John who wrote the gospel,
and it was written a long time after Jesus death, some scholars say 190 AD,
anyhow the book of Revelation is a very allegoric book and tries to control
people, it starts very strong and ends very strong.
The book of Revelation states this and I quote:
(This is the revelation given by God to Jesus
Christ so that he could tell his servants about the things that are now to take
place very soon; he sent his angel to make it known to his servant John.-- And
John has written down everything he saw and swears it is the word of God
guaranteed by Jesus Christ. Happy the man who reads this prophesy, and happy
those who listen to him, if they treasure all it says, because the Time is
close.) End of quote.
Revelation also ends with a very strong warning, or
a curse to anyone who changes anything that the writer John has written, so, it
is almost freighting, and this is the reason why the Bible has stopped being
written.
Anyhow, we must ask again the same question as we
did at the beginning; what has mankind done to update religious beliefs? The
answer would be, not very much; whether it is the curse at the end of the Bible
that stops us writing, we don’t know. Because we believe that something needs
to be done to keep religions active in the future.
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Let us review our writing task.
Anyhow, we believe that religious leaders must use
their common sense; they should take into account what is happening in the
world; here we are thinking about the Muslim extremist that kill people in the
name of their God Allah; so, anything that can be changed should be changed in
a way that discourages these religious extremists to use religions for their own
ends. Any changes should also be written in such a way that they agree with religious
people and the atheists.
Therefore, we must find a way on how to review,
rewrite and illustrate religion according to the present times, with the
intention of putting an end to the misuse of religions and this is what we are
trying to suggest in these articles.
But today to make people believe in God and
religions is not easy, because we want to believe in religion only if there are
some advantages for us, and if there are not personal sacrifices. It is a
well-known fact, that we do not accept everything that is being said to us
these days, because we know a lot more than we used to know. So, we challenge
any beliefs if they do not feel right in our mind, and we want mentally to
check that everything that is being told, meets our own standard of knowledge
and runs in a parallel way with our knowledge.
Therefore, if we want to write about religious
beliefs, we must write them in a way that runs in a parallel way to our
knowledge. They must reconcile every existing living thing to the living God
life-force of the universe; they must be written in a way acceptable to
mankind, otherwise it will be a waste of time to write them. Anyhow, I believe
that I need help to write what I am trying to write here, so, let me pray God
our Father to help me.
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Praying God for help.
Anyhow, since we believe that God can help us, let
me pray.
In the name of The Father, The Son and The Holy
Spirit, which every day I pray from the bottom of my heart to guide me, so that
I can write these religious writings according to God’s will, Father, hear my
prayer and help me!
As you can see, I have prayed our Lord God, so, I
feel more confident. Now let me explain. Religion can be said to be a divine
devise to help people live a better life in a collective way. But by observing
how the world is being run today, it seems to me that people are distorting
those existing religious rules therein, so, they can gain personal advantages
for themselves.
So, we must try to set our religious writings in
such a way that it would be harder for people to take advantage of religious
rules. You see, today people are using religion as a weapon to inflict
punishment to others, and some of these punishments are extreme and violent.
This behavior makes us wonder whether they are a bunch of crazy people, that do
not know what they are doing; but we know that they don’t behave as religious people should do.
So, to overcome that, we should go back to the
beginning of religions and start rewriting religious books, beginning with
phrases that would be hard to ignore like this phrase here under:
Let it be known to all humanity that there is only
one God throughout the universe, and God is life and the life essence of the
whole universe. He is the father of every living thing and therefore all our
lives depend from Him. And we must believe and think while we are living on
earth that every living thing one day must die and must return to Him.
We believe that things described in a collective
way, like what we have written above can help.
Let us discuss religions.
Therefore, we believe that it is better for all
humanity to believe in this living God as described above, because a God like
that involves everybody on earth and binds all religions together, we need a God
like that because there is no better way available, and there is no other God
but this living God, which we all should believe in.
Of course, mankind has got a problem in believing
in the same God, because there is this driving force within us, which makes us want
to be better than the fellow next door. Therefore, it is in our nature that we
don’t like to be the same as everyone else, and we don’t want to believe in the
same God, our god has got to be better than other people gods.
But if we accept that there is only one God
throughout the universe, then religions may become better. You see, it needs to
be like that because this is the only way to stop religious differences, and
above all those religious fanatics that do violent things in the name of their
God and religion; not only that but the truth is that we need to accept that
there is only one God throughout the universe, or there is no God at all.
Anyhow, I believe that there is only one God
throughout the universe, therefore, we
need to find a way how to describe and believe in the same God.
To do that, I believe that we need to describe God
in a different way, and mankind needs to accept and adjust whatever needs to be
adjusted, to get everybody believing in the same God. Because we need to
believe in this same God
who is our life giver; to overcome
these problems.
Therefore, I believe that it is helpful if we can find
a way in common, which will help people believe in the same God who is the life
force of the whole universe. So, I pray God to help me write these articles. And
this would be my personal religious contribution.
I believe that this article is becoming too long;
so, see you next time with,
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May God bless us all.
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