Welcome to our
article,
May
God guide and help me write this religious article, the right way.
Dear
readers, in this article, we are attempting to explain our religious beliefs in
another way, in the hope that it is easier to understand, how we have formed our religious beliefs, and how we see religions today.
We
are calling this article “In my religious opinion”, because this article, of our religious beliefs are based mainly on my life experience, so,
this article is about all those things that I have observed during my life, that have changed my opinion. Anyhow, let me explain, you see, every one of us, sees and understand things in our own
ways, and from the way we understand those things, we form our own opinions.
Anyhow, we want to share these opinions, because we believe that they are
important enough to be shared, since everybody
believes in religion one way or another.
So, I want to share what I have learned from life, above all those things that have given me the opportunity to change my opinion. So, I would like to tell you how I formed my opinions, which could be interesting to read. Anyhow, in this article I am telling you only a few selected things that in my opinion are important enough to be told. Now, because this article is going to be published as being part of my religious writings. Anyhow, I must tell you how I have reached my religious opinions. So, let us start by telling you what I have written and why.
You see, I have written many religious’ articles in Hub Pages; I have written them
according to my religious opinion. I have
been able to write these religious articles, because I have discussed them with
my friends, while we were reading religious books that we happen to have, or,
from what we can find on the internet. Books like the Bible, Catholic Online, Book of Mormon, The Koran -- Simple Search, The Laws of Manu, and any other religious articles that we have found. So, today I have formed my opinion about religions, which I want to
share with the public.
Anyhow, to write these religious articles is not easy; because, whoever wants to write them has got to have some deep religious beliefs, one should feel a sort of mystic within oneself, and above all, has got to believe that he is doing the right thing even if it is hard to do. In other words, one must feel that is doing his duty, as a religious believer and a good citizen, like what I have written in my site, http://frankmenchise.com, the duty of any human being.
So,
let me start talking about these religious issues that I have in mind, I will
try to be brief, but I can see that I need to write a few articles to cover
these religious issues that I have in mind.
Now,
I want to inform you, that all my religious beliefs are based on spirituality;
however, for me God exists, and all other spiritual entities exist as well. Therefore,
do not get me wrong, when you see me talking like an atheist, because,
sometimes we need to do that to make our point of view, which might not be in
line with many religious beliefs.
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Talking about
religions.
In my opinion when we talk about religions we need to talk about the need
that we have for religions. Now, to prove that we need
religions, it is enough to read history books, or look at ancient monuments to
see what ancient people believed: like the Egyptian pyramids, we can find
some religious explanation in the Egyptian Book of the Dead - The
Nazarene Way, or
the Greek and Roman’s gods and goddesses statues that are still around today.
These old monuments that exist today, is the proof that most civilizations have
believed in gods and supernatural forces.
So, a long time ago, people believed in their Gods and spiritual beings. Because of these widespread beliefs, we must assume that we have this need within us that makes us want to have a spiritual life, so, we can live forever, and we want a God to guide us, therefore, religions are born from this need that we have.
I believe that religions have been used to explain what is hard to explain, but, sometimes they were right and sometimes wrong. Anyhow, all religions have been used to explain the existence of life and spirituality. We can say that religions have been used, to explain how life and everything else has begun.
Apart from religions explaining how everything began, and the creation of life, religions have been used to control people, because religions are a set of rules that the followers must use. Therefore, religions are useful to humanity, when they are made and used the right way. In the past, there have been many religions, some of those religions were good for humanity, so, the best of them are still in existence today.
There
have been religions that were strange, but they were not bad and therefore
useful for humanity, during the time that they existed. But there have been
religions, so horrendous that today we would through their religious leaders in
jail, lock them up and throw away the keys; here I am talking about those
religions that used human sacrifice.
Now, I have talked about the religions that exist and have existed in the world, because I want to point out that man needs religions, and for this reason, man has invented religions. So, all existing religions have been created by man, and all religions can be changed by man, if there is a need to change them, this is my opinion about religions.
But
even though religions have been created by man. We believe that the spiritual
side of religions exists. Therefore, it would be unwise to say, that
God does not exist.
You see, some spiritual things must have happened to people in the past, which was close to the ways that religions explain their beliefs, at the beginning of their religious books and beliefs. Today we can question what could have happened and why, and ask if it was just our human imagination, that has invented God; but the fact remains that, Man needs God, and we have to admit that we do. But then, what sort of God does humanity need. we may wonder, because we need a God for all humanity and not a group of people.
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Talking about
God.
Now that we have explained that in our own opinion we need God, and religions have been created by man, because “man needs God” and religions. Therefore, the gods that we believe in, have been described by man, even though there might have been spiritual happenings, or somebody had a vision or a dream, that prompted them to tell other people whatever they saw or dreamed about. The fact remains, that we can say that man has described God, and religions according to mankind needs.
One
of the most known facts that we can talk about here, it is about Moses on Mount
Sinai, the vision that Moses had on Mount Sinai, led to the beginning of the
Bible and the Hebrew religion. The Hebrews needed a leader, a God and a
religion that could deliver them from the Egyptian slavery, and this is exactly
what happened. Here I want to point out that even though I believe that God
exists, the rest of the religion that followed, Moses vision, was written to
fix the need that the Hebrew people had at that time.
Now,
because different groups of people had different needs, they invented or
created their own gods and religions according to their needs. So, today there
are many gods and religions in the world. As we know, the religions that
exist today are different to each other. This difference can be explained in
certain ways, God is different at different times, because people have
different needs.
Anyhow,
we believe that today religious needs are different from the past, because we
are becoming a more equal society with equal needs. This is happening
because today people move more easily from one place to another, so, isolation
is not the trend anymore. Now, because of these people movement, people need a
religion that is flexible enough, and that allows enough room for other
religions to be compatible with. But the old rigid religions are not flexible
enough.
So, in my opinion, today we need a super God that is compatible with all existing religions, and that is able to deliver an idealistic religion, which can connect to existing religions, because that is what we need from God and religions these days. You see, in the past religious leaders have described their gods and religions, according to the needs that they had, which was isolation from other religious groups. But today isolation cannot be achieved anymore, since people move willingly and freely from one place to another, therefore, in my opinion, we need to describe God and religions according to what we need today. This can be a super God that can connect all existing religions together.
I believe that we have said enough in this article. So, see you in our next article, where we are going to explain and compare how we see the existing religions of today, and start imagining how they can fit in our religious theory of the future, which we believe can be achieved, if we have a super God above all other Gods.
To see more click on this link, In my religious opinion.
See
you, in our next article, in my mystic religious opinion.
May
God bless us all.
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