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Welcome
to our article,
Dear readers, I hope that one day I can write an article that can suggest, how mankind can bring all religions together, because that is what the world needs now; religions must work together and not against each other. We will be able to do that in the future, because today the world needs religions that aim for globalization, since most people and governments have abandoned isolation policies; so, it is helpful if religions follow the same trend.
Anyhow, let us talk about our religious beliefs, and the way we see God and religions. I believe that while God exists, at the same time God is different to the ways that we have been taught God is. Religions have been written by us humans, so, humanity can re-write them if necessary. Now, this view of re-writing religious beliefs is not new, because it has happened before, if we look at our human history of religions.
To
explain this better, we need to talk first about our religious standing point
of view, because our religious beliefs are conditioned from ourselves: for
instance, I am a Roman Catholic, so, I know mostly about Christian religions,
and those religions that derive from the Bible. For this reason, I am going to
talk mostly about them.
However,
it would be good, if we can talk about religions in a chronological way, It is
believed that Hinduism is the oldest religion in the world. What I know about
them is that I have read the, The Laws of Manu , which has given me some
idea, what these religions are like.
Anyhow,
these Indian religions like, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism; also, the
East Asian religions like, Taoism, Confucianism, Korean and Japanese religion,
and others; we will talk about them sparingly, because we don’t know enough
about them. Anyhow, all religions have something to do with spirituality. Now
let us talk about the Western religions and what we know about them.
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Looking at the old western religions.
From
what is known today, one of the oldest civilizations is the Egyptian, they
built these pyramids, where there is evidence that they believed in gods and
spiritual things. In fact, they believed in the underworld, they believed that
their Pharaoh was a god, that would re-join the other spiritual gods when they
died. They also believed that one day their Pharaoh could return to life, that
is why they preserved their bodies. To understand better their beliefs, you can
check out this Book
of the Dead
- Wikipedia.
Then these is the
Greek civilization. The Greeks believed in many Gods, today there are many
statues that can be seen in their ancient temples. The oldest written evidence
can be found in old Greek literature, such as, The Iliad and the Odyssey, where
the storyteller Omer tells us about the war that the Greek waged against Troy,
the Trojan horse and how the gods were in favour or against those people, who
took part in this war. In the Odyssey he talks about Ulysses and his return
journey to his Greek island kingdom, it seems that Ulysses had done something
that the gods didn’t like, so, they didn’t want him to return home, but in the
end, he succeeded. Anyhow, the gods in the Greek mythology are more like
humans, they have for their king Jupiter and they live on Mount Olympus. If you
want to know more, check these links below, Family tree of the Greek gods -
Wikipedia, You see the Greek pagan religion, like other religions have their own
version about creation and the world of the dead. Persephone: Queen of the Underworld,
Aphrodite: The World's First Diva The Golden Age:
The First Greek Deities hub.me/agotI
Then there were the
Romans, the Romans believed in many spiritual things, their religion was a mix
up of religions, so, they believed in lots of gods, plus all the gods that
other people had. So, when they conquered a new place, they not only took the
people as slaves, they also took their gods to Rome; the Romans even took some
of the monuments with them, one of this is the obelisk they took from Egypt,
which even today is in Saint Peter Square in Rome. Anyhow, we can say that the
Roman religion was very much like the Greek religion, with a few variations.
What we want to
point out here, is that religions change from time to time, so, they don’t last
forever, the way they have been written the first time, which is different from
what the Bible and the religions that derive from the Bible want us to believe.
Talking about the
Bible, there are reasons to believe that the Bible was and is the Hebrew
history book. In those times religions was the government as well. Anyhow, the
Hebrews were the people that have written the Bible. What is written in the
Bible is accurate to a certain degree, but not everything is the way they want
us to believe.
Anyhow, we believe
that religions have a very important role to play in our lives, even if they
change and are not perfect, and are man-constructed, as this you-tube link
below here will show you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptmNd9fp_5Q
Now, let us talk about the role of religions in our lives.
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The role of religions in our lives.
We
must admit that humanity has always needed God and religion in the past, so, we
will continue to need God and religions in the future to live a meaningful
life. You see, that is the reason why, our forebears believed in God, whether
they had proof about the existence of their God, we don’t know, but they wrote
their religious rule according to their beliefs.
Today
we are questioning whether the existing religions are true. So, while most
people believe in God and religions the way they are, other people believe that
God may not exist, and religions are man-made, just because we need them.
Anyhow,
I am an agnostic person, and I am writing this article to say that religions
are useful to us humans, when religions are made and used the proper way. But
when religions don’t fulfil their role anymore, then religions must be modified, they need to be re-set in a way that
they can serve humanity, according to the times we are living.
So,
the role of religions is to serve and guide humanity, because they have been
written for that reason, therefore, we may need to modify religions, to make them work better. Now, let
me see what I can suggest if we want to achieve that. Anyhow, I hope that God will guide me to say the right things.
Anyhow,
religions are like a written law-book that does not need the police to enforce
the law, because that can be achieved in a spiritual way, where God is the
judge of everything, while your conscience is the part that tells you what is
right to do. I believe that the older generation were good at setting up these
things. They did this by trial and error, and later they wrote their rules
down.
Having
done that, they found that it is a convenient way to control the people, since
all they need to do is to remind their followers to do what they are told,
according to their religious set of rules; by doing that they reinforced their
control over the people.
You
see, I believe that God and religions, they have been invented by mankind, to
give the people that extra guidance that we need. Because there is not real
evidence that God exists. But there are reasons to believe that God and
religions are an invention of our human mind. But then, I might be wrong.
Therefore,
I believe that God is not completely an invention of our mind, because God
exists and is the energies of the existing life on earth. So, God exists, but is
not the same way that the Bible says, and the Koran says. Because their God is
too powerful to exist. We believe that their super powerful God cannot exist
because the description of God, is beyond the possible ways of the physical
laws of the universe.
Therefore,
how we can describe God that can be supported from the physical laws of the
universe, keeping in mind, that this God must fulfil our human needs, like what
most religions do today. To do that we should believe that God is not the creator
of everything, but God is part of the universe, and helped to create the existing
life.
If we can do that, then existing religions can remain the same as they are today, the additional benefit is that all religions can be linked to this spiritual God, since God is the spiritual Father of all living beings, so, let us try to describe, how this spiritual God can exist within the universe.
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Explaining God and other religious things.
We
believe that religion must be reset to serve humanity, in a way that most people can accept, because that is the role that religions must play.
We believe that the
existence of God; is an assumption that humankind invented for their own needs, as we have written in this article, Man needs God, anyhow, it has worked well for a long time, but today things are
different; even though we still believe that man needs God.
Therefore, we believe that the time has come, when we need to look at everything together, because there are things that don’t add up in religions. You see, some people use religions the wrong way. They can do that, because of the way religions have been set-up, therefore, religions need to change.
You see, if there is a God of the universe, this God can only be a God for everybody, this cannot be a God for the Jews, Roman Catholic or Muslims only. We believe that most people want a God for themselves, because this God could help them kill other people, like the Muslims that kill in the name of their God, but they are terrorists and nothing else, that is why they have invented a God that will let them kill other people.
A God that kills, is not a God, because God is supposed to give life, and not to take away life, that is the great difference in the spiritual world. You see, it is believed that only God can give life, that is the reason why, God is above all other spiritual entities, because no one else can give life to anything except God; this belief of being the life giver of everything, will give God the importance God deserves. So, let me describe, how I imagine God and the universe is, since I believe that God exists within the universe.
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God exists within the universe.
My views about God
and the universe, is that God exists within the universe. The other option we
have, is that God is the universe; this means that God is the physical and the
spiritual universe together. Both these assumptions are possible, since they
give us the option to believe in God; but we must choose one that makes more
sense to us.
Now, to write this article, I must believe that I am a seer, so, I can see things that the
average person cannot see, since God has given me this gift. Now, what I can
see here is this: God and the universe have always existed; but we can say that
they may have changed during their long existence.
Anyhow, my theory
is that God is the spiritual positive life energies of the universe, that can
give life to every living thing; therefore, God cannot be the creator of the
universe as written in the Bible, because we have chosen the spiritual God.
Now we need to
explain our views. We believe that the writers of the Bible did not know that
our earth is only a small part of the universe. They thought that we were the
most important part of what they believed existed. So, from this point of view
they fabricated everything.
Anyhow, they had to
imagine how the world came into being, therefore, they thought that there was a
creator, and they called this creator God. Today things have changed a lot, and
we can use a different point of view; we believe that God is not the creator of
everything, unless we describe God as being everything, and God and the
universe has always existed. Then once we separate the physical part of the
universe from the spiritual part, we are left with the spiritual life energies
of the universe, these energies we can call God.
Now because I am a believer, I am praying God for forgiveness if what I am saying is not what he wants me to say, hoping that God listens to my prayer.
It is my personal
belief, that God can only be the spiritual life energies of the universe, these
God life energies are everywhere in the universe and they give life to every
living being; so, we are part of these life energies and we need to stay in
touch with them the best way we can, if we want these life energies to help us
in our life, that is if we behave in a way that is compatible with them,
because only then God can help us.
Anyhow, now that I
have described God of the universe, I need also to suggest a people prayer for
this future God, so, this is the prayer that I am suggesting:
People prayer to
God
Praying God for
reconciliation
Our Lord God with
our personal concerns we come to you praying God-Most-High, master of the
universe and life giver to all living things, we are praying thee for
forgiveness of our sins, and reconciliation to thy spiritual life force of the universe.
My Lord God, I am
praying thee and hoping that in your mercy you would forgive me all my life
sins, and that you would make me spiritually clean of any impurities that may
affect my soul, and thus, I would become worthy to pray to you and my prayers of
forgiveness and reconciliation would be heard and accepted.
My Lord God, and
Almighty Father, I am praying thee in the hope that I would receive your
forgiveness, reconciliation, spiritual cleansing, spiritual guidance and
blessing, and after receiving them, let me be your humble servant.
My Lord God, hear my prayer forgive me my sins and bless me; so that I can live in harmony with thy spiritual and eternal benevolent life-force of the universe, Father hear my prayer, amen.
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Of course, we need
more prayer, some of
which can be found in, Prayers of
Reconciliation,
I must stop writing
now, because this article is too long. See you next time, where we are writing
philosophy and our inner feeling, because they are like religious beliefs.
May God bless us
all.
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