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Welcome to our blog, Man needs God
and this post, Sorting out religions
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There are several religions today in the world, some of them may well be old fashioned, so a review and a new way of understanding religions the modern way could be helpful.
Sorting out religions
Sorting out what to sort from religions
Dear readers, as we have said in our
previous post, the trigger that made us write these religious issues was the
9-11-2001 terrorist event, because of this event we decided to write our
religious theory, our theory is based on our religious old beliefs, so we
decided that we need to sort out those beliefs to come to a possible
conclusion.
Perhaps to sort out those religious
information’s that could be helpful one should look at what most religion do
and believe today, and since we would like to bring most religions together,
then it is obvious that we have to choose those things that all religions have
in common; at this stage we have reasons to believe that most or perhaps all
religions believe in some sort of spirituality; so spirituality is the first
thing that we have to use, if we want to bring religions together, if we are
able to do that then it will show that there is a link that binds all religions
together, this link should show us that indeed we might all belong to the
eternal spiritual life forces that make life possible in the universe.
Having said that there are of course the
differences that exist in the religious world, there are also all those
theories of how this or that religion has started; and also all the gods and
goddesses, saints and other religious entity and events that happen in any of
these world religions. Anyhow, now we know or at least we believe that we have
to work with spirituality above all, if we want to bring all religions close
together, let us see briefly what sort of spirituality the main religions
contain:
Since the Christian religion is one of the
largest, let us mention a few things about its spiritual content; at the top of
all the spiritual entity there is God (Yahweh, Jehovah, and/or Allah) followed
by archangels, angels, saints and worthy souls; now in order to keep in a
certain order to make sense, one could say that these are followed by the
devils and the nasty souls, of course all these spiritual entities dwell in
another dimension and they cannot travel freely to our dimension, but , it is
believed that somehow God the master and life giver of the entire universe has
made it possible for the souls of people to travel in and out of our dimension
and the spiritual dimension, only when they are born and when they die. This is
in a nutshell how spirituality in the Christian religion is supposed to be,
because this is how our forbears have passed down this information to us, because
they have believed it to be so.
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Spirituality in some other religions
Spirituality in some other major religions
Spiritualty has always existed in the
religious world, so here we are going to talk about some of religious spiritual
beliefs, let us start from the Egyptians.
The Egyptians have the book of the dead and
other written evidence is found even today in the pyramid walls. Generally
speaking the Egyptian believed the people had a soul and that the Pharaoh was a
descendent of the gods and at his death he could again join the gods in the
afterlife, people also had souls but they were less important than the Pharaoh.
In this evidence that we find today, there are funeral texts designed to ensure
that deceased souls reach a pleasant afterlife through the elaborate rites at
their death, and there are many other things, there was also this belief that
souls needed food after their death.
The Indians have the Vedas and many other
books; one of the books that make sense to us westerners is the Laws of Manu,
where at least we are able to understand a few things about the Indian
religious beliefs; these beliefs are very complex and they are very hard to
explain unless we read from the book of, The Laws of Manu, so to make it easier
for our readers, we are going to quote part of the first chapter just the way I
have found it on the Internet, and here I quote:
1. The great sages approached Manu, who was
seated with a collected mind, and, having duly worshipped him, spoke as
follows:
2. 'Deign, divine one, to declare to us
precisely and in due order the sacred laws of each of the (four chief) castes
(varna) and of the intermediate ones.
3. 'For thou, O Lord, alone knowest the
purport, (i.e.) the rites, and the knowledge of the soul, (taught) in this
whole ordinance of the Self-existent (Svayambhu), which is unknowable and
unfathomable.'
4. He, whose power is measureless, being
thus asked by the high-minded great sages, duly honoured them, and answered,
'Listen!'
5. This (universe) existed in the shape of
Darkness, unperceived, destitute of distinctive marks, unattainable by
reasoning, unknowable, wholly immersed, as it were, in deep sleep.
6. Then the divine Self-existent (Svayambhu,
himself) indiscernible, (but) making (all) this, the great elements and the
rest, discernible, appeared with irresistible (creative) power, dispelling the
darkness.
7. He who can be perceived by the internal
organ (alone), who is subtile, indiscernible, and eternal, who contains all
created beings and is inconceivable, shone forth of his own (will).
8. He, desiring to produce beings of many
kinds from his own body, first with a thought created the waters, and placed
his seed in them.
9. That (seed) became a golden egg, in
brilliancy equal to the sun; in that (egg) he himself was born as Brahman, the
progenitor of the whole world.
End of quote from The Laws of Manu.
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Now that we have quoted a small part of the
beginning from this Indian sacred book The Laws of Manu, it becomes evident
that the laws of Manu it a very long conversation between the sages that ask
Manu many religious issues and Manu that will explain to them very detailed
religious issues; here I have to say that there is a lot more to read in this
great book, so I strongly advise to use the link in this hub to read more about
the great Manu.
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Other religions from the Indian religion
Other religions were born from the Indian
religion
The Indian religions have many ways and
there are many beliefs, we don’t know very much about them, since even the
Indians themselves cannot explain their many religions and ways of beliefs.
What we in the western world know is that from the Hindus religions comes
another important religion the Buddhism.
Buddha story goes like this; when Buddha
was young 2600 years ago he was a prince, he was a young man called Siddhartha
but even though he was a rich prince he dealt with similar struggles that we
have today. It is said that he was born as a crown prince and was also blessed
by having an extremely beautiful wife. But still he was not completely happy,
because he felt that something was missing in his life. So one day he left
everything and went in search of complete happiness and what is the meaning of
life. It seems that he found some of his answers and from his new found
knowledge created unintentionally a new religion, just by teachings what he had
found.
Today Buddhism is an important religion;
the leader of this religion is the Dalai Lama, but unfortunately because China
has occupied Tibet, which is the main place of worship for the Buddhism
religion, the Dalai Lama has been banned from Tibet, but the religious people
still believe that he is the leader of this religion. I don’t know much about
this religion, but has we have seen this religion it is there to try to solve
the meaning of life, so let me quote here what I have found lately:
Perhaps this is what the Buddhists are
after, and I quote:
Knowing life purpose would invest
everything one did with meaning. Whether reading a book, performing a task, or
caring for one’s health, one would feel deep commitment and satisfaction. Even
if one was suffering from a dreadful disease, enmeshed in a family quarrel, or
stung by a humiliating defeat, the power to live-the determination to overcome
any obstacle in order to fulfil life’s great purpose- would always come
flooding back. In his own the Genealogy of Morals, Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900) effectively underscored the importance of the meaning of life when
he wrote that man desires suffering and “even seeks it out, provided that he
has been shown a meaning for it, a reason for suffering”.
End of quote; well it seems to me that
there are very deep and meaningful meanings in this quote.
From this quote of Friedrich Nietzsche that
man desires suffering and even seeks it out, provided that he has been shown a
meaning for it, a reason for suffering. In other words one can say that man
would do anything as long as he believes what he does is the right thing to do
according to his beliefs, you see it is just what the Muslim do, they think
that it is al-right to kill, as long as they believe that their religions wants
it that way.
I believe that I have said enough in this
post, so see you in our next post, about Creation and the creation of mankind.
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Man needs God
Sorting out religions
IS TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with, Creation and the creation of mankind
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