Saturday, October 12, 2013

Life affects our religious behavior

MAN NEEDS GOD. We believe that, there is only one God throughout the universe and God is the universal life force that guides and gives life to the entire universe. Therefore every living thing is part of God life force, since God is the essence of all life in the universe, for this reason no living thing can exist without God life force.
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Life affects our religious behavior

Now we have said in our last post that the will to survive is one of the main driving forces that makes us believe whatever we believe, but there are also those things that life throws at us that will affect our religious beliefs and behaviour; therefore not withstanding this need of religions as we have said before, and also to fulfil the will to survive forever and other things, man has also his own mind and sometimes he believes in himself too much for his own good:

So during our lives on earth, our religious beliefs seem to go up and down according to our feelings and needs: Here for clarity sake allow me to go back to talk as if we are talking about a single person, therefore this single person while he is a child he is keen to believe and practice religion, just the way that his parents have taught him, because religion gives him a sense of protection from dangers and evil, just like his parents have taught him that God can protect you if you believe in God, and pray to God when you need help; and it is for these reasons that he would pray to be protected from God if he feels he is in danger; of course there is also a sense of fulfilment since he has done the right things according to his religious beliefs.

But as he becomes older and becomes strong and sure of himself, then he may think that all this fuss about religion and protection and fulfilment is becoming useless to him, because he may have the false notion that he is indestructible just like most young people do, and therefore he believes that he doesn’t need any supernatural power to help him, this behaviour is particularly so in the young males in the presence of other male persons, where they seem to show off their physical and mental strength; therefore even if there are a few men who believe in God, they will not willing be showing it to their peers for fear of being ridiculous, even though they know that deep down in their hearts they believe in God, and they know that believing would be the only way to salvation for them, and that salvation is the only way to fulfil their desire to survive forever. You see, nobody could ever feel good for being dead forever, so we want to find a way to salvation no matter how hard it is.
Therefore, when a man becomes old he still wants to survive forever, even though he knows that all of us must die one day, so the only thing left for him to do is to believe that his soul will survive, in the afterlife of course. And therefore, he goes back to his religious beliefs of when he was rather young, so, he goes back to what his parents have taught him and together with his acquired life knowledge and wisdom he tries to find a way out to eternal salvation.
Now as you can see, because of this inborn will to survive forever mankind cannot escape religion, because religion is the only link which promises us a possible way to salvation, and so, we hope at least that we may find the way to salvation and save at least our soul; I believe that this is the main reason that we need to continue religions as they are, we also need to use our own religion to help us, so we have to use what we believe is the right thing to do.  
Now, for me I believe that I should explain religions, since we are talking about religions and I am writing about religions.
But before I continue to write any other religious issues, let me say my prayer to God Most High, master of the universe and life giver to every living thing, so that I can feel more comfortable writing them, because I believe that God would help me.
Prayer
In the name of The Father, The-Son and The Holy Spirit; Almighty Father, I pray you with all my heart, my soul and my mind earnestly, hoping that in your mercy you would forgive me all my life sins and make me clean of any impurities that may affect my soul, so that I would be worthy and able to write these religious writing that I am writing here as humanly as possible according to your will. Father, hear my prayer and help me!
Now that I have prayed God Most High, I feel more confident to write the following religious writings, so let me try to explain, what religion is for me and perhaps for most of us, in our next post, Our religious beliefs. See you there.

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Man needs God
Life affects our religious behavior
IS TO BE CONTINUED; 
Next time with; Our religious beliefs
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