Religious people contribution
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Religious people contribution needed
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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 and stale. 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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Some different religious books
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 nothing. 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 Search , and also the Book of Mormon, has been written, 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 do that.
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, 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 extremist 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.
Prayers of Reconciliation start
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, Importance of religion?
May God bless us all.
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