When there is an important religions event, we believe this is the canonization of, Mary Mackillop and people have come to the event in thousands, this goes to show that religions are very important even today. Look at this big crowd in Rome.
Welcome to our article,
May God help me to say the right things.
Today we want to ask: Is religion important and
necessary to exist for all humanity? The answer to this question must be yes,
because religion has been important to humanity; it is enough to look at
important religious events, to see the numbers of people that attend them.
I believe that religion is necessary to every
living soul, because it is in our nature that we need to believe in God and
religion to have a meaningful life, you see, we have always felt the need to
believe in a higher power and we call this higher power God, which we like to
turn for help when we need help. We also need religions to explain our
existence.
Anyhow, religions are a set of rules of how people
should live their lives, so, they help us to decide what is good to do during
our lives. Of course, there are also manmade rules that would help us to decide
how to live our lives, but those rules need to be enforced by the government
authorities, whereas the religious rules are self-imposed, because of your own
religious beliefs, therefore, religions have been and are important.
You see, if we look back at the history of mankind,
we will find that all civilizations had their own religious beliefs. Even
though most of those beliefs have been proven untrue, nevertheless they were
helpful to the people of those times, because they helped to create a
meaningful life for them, according to those beliefs.
Wherever we look, we find evidence that people have
believed in religions, with gods who were more powerful than us humans, which
we humans would turn for help, when we found ourselves in a dangerous situation.
Most civilizations have believed in the afterlife, which would give them some
sort of immortality, since no one likes to die and disappear forever. Some
religions proved to be good in the ancient world, but a few were disgusting and
believed in human sacrifice, to keep their gods in a favorable mood for the
rest of the community.
Today those ancient sacrificing religions have
disappeared, and the pagan religions have also disappeared, and they have been
replaced with Christianity, but some of those archaic religions have left the
signs of their existence. So, today there are still statues of gods and
goddesses to be seen; there are ancient books where we can get some ideas of
what these religions were like; there are some words in our language which come
from these ancient beliefs; as there are the names of the planets of the solar
system, which come after the name of gods and goddesses of the pagan world; in
everyday language, love sex and sexual diseases, they all seem to have
something to do with Venus the goddess of love. We believe that it is good, to
compare these beliefs that mankind has always had, with today beliefs, because
this will show the need to believe in something higher than ourselves. It is
our beliefs and spiritual consciousness that push us to do it.
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Beliefs and spiritual consciousness.
Now that we have looked at old religions and the
need that we humans have for religions, let us look at our beliefs and
spiritual consciousness that we have ourselves. We know that religious beliefs
are complex and there are other things to keep in mind and follow. Because
everything we believe, has something to do with our conscious or subconscious
mind, therefore, our own spiritual beliefs, it has always been like this and we
must find our own ways and beliefs.
Therefore, we may ask, what were those old
religions like and where did their beliefs come from?
We have reasons to believe that our consciousness
or sub consciousness have always played a part in religion, because things that
we believed a long time ago, we are still believing today, so, this field of
consciousness is very wide and includes many things, one example could be found
in our dreams, the old religions and today religions they both take into
consideration our dreams.
You see, since the beginning of recorded time,
people have always believed that dreams come from our spiritual side; we
believe that dreams can be a way of communication between the living and the
dead, which our subconscious mind can communicate at certain times of our
lives.
Therefore, when we are sleeping, we could be in a
position to communicate with the spiritual world; I want to say this because
what follows hereunder are a few religious dreams,
which I dreamed and they are so real that I felt that I had met these spiritual
forces in my dreams?
Now, my personal religious beliefs are those of a
modified Roman Catholic person; I am saying modified because there are some
issues that I do not agree completely with how they explain this religion.
Anyhow, to give you an insight of my religious
beliefs I am going to tell you my religious dreams, as you all know dreams
reflect the inner most part of what a person beliefs are. So, I am going to
tell you my religious dreams about our Lord Jesus Christ.
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First dream about Jesus Christ.
MY FIRST DREAMS ABOUT JESUS CHRIST
In this first dream about Jesus Christ and other
spiritual forces, I dreamed this.
I seem to go around in many unknown places, as we
know dreams can take us in very strange places, some of these places are good
and some are not so good. At one stage during my dream I seem to be in danger,
because some evil force
or people are after me to rob me or harm me. So, I try to run away from them,
while I am running away from this danger, I try to find some safety by knocking
at a stranger door, the door opens and an old Lady lets me in, I felt safe in
there, because there were wise mature people inside, I wanted to thank the Lady
(who may well have been the virgin Mary) for letting me in: But they all seem
to smile back at me, as if I knew only half what was going on. So, I started
looking around to find the reason, and there I see my own mother beside me in
company with the old Lady: So, I could not help it; (as I was aware in the
dream that my mother had passed away a few months before) So, I asked my
mother: (in my own native language, which translated in English is) Who sends
you here to help me? Is it Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary? There was not much
else to be said, as I was waiting for an answer from my mother, but it did not
happen, but I could feel that I was right in saying that. Anyhow, this dream
ends here because I woke up.
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Second dream about Jesus Christ.
MY SECOND DREAM ABOUT JESUS
I had one more dream soon after this dream that I
have written above, that is after a couple of nights or there about: and here
again it seems that the evil force or evil people are after me, as they want to
rob or harm me, it is because they think I have in my possession something
that’s important to them, I do not know what this something is, but they are
all after me anyhow. They seem to catch up with me, and I feel that I could not
escape from them anymore, so, I knew that I was in grave danger because they
were the evil ones. So, in my despair I turned to heaven and prayed God to help
me. At that moment, there was not a cloud in the sky when I started to pray,
but soon two large eyes formed in the sky and they were looking down upon me,
and winged at me benevolently, a large and well-defined head formed in the sky
like a portrait, and this head seemed to fill up most of the sky. At the sight
of this God send head figure the evil ones were frozen with fear and did not
move a single step to grab me. So, they all stopped frightened in a corner of
this lake, while I was on the shore of this lake looking back at them, as they
seemed to shrink in size on a small boat, it was as if they wanted to hide from
this mighty force up in the sky.
At the same time I became aware that, what the evil
ones wanted from me did not belong to them or to me, but was something that had
in possession, which had to be divided into three parts, and one part of this
belonged to mother: The dream did not explain who the mother was, and since it
is very unlikely that it would be my mother; then the mother very likely would
be mother nature, or perhaps God, since God is everywhere and could be said to
be equals to mother nature.
After that, when I woke up in the morning, this
dream became very important to me, because in the morning I found a red spot on
my forehead between my eyes, it was small, but it was just like one of those
religious people from India make on their forehead for themselves.
So, my question is now: Did I in my dream really
call on this heavenly force? And the heavenly force came to help me, and then
left a sign on my forehead to let me know who that heavenly force was, and that
I should remember the meaning of this dream that I dreamed.
I hope you see what I mean, when I talk about
religious beliefs and the Importance of religion.
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Jesus Christ the morning star.
Dear readers, I am sure that now you want to ask me, how many dreams about Jesus
Christ I have had?
Well I have had a few dreams about Jesus Christ,
and this is another one of them.
Now to give the right meaning to the following
dream and prove the Importance of religion, hereunder is a religious dream that
I had, and it seemed so real that I felt that I had indeed met this spiritual
force.
So, I dare ask these questions to you my readers. Do
you believe in dreams? Do you believe that we may communicate with the
spiritual world in our dreams? Has anyone else met Christ? Even if this event
was only a dream, because a while ago I did answer this question myself in a
discussion group and this is what I had to say:
The question in this group discussion was: Has
anyone else met Christ?
I had to answer that question thus:
Perhaps I have met The Lord Jesus Christ in a
dream? To make a long story short, I will only tell you this important part of
the dream.
As we all know dreams are always different from
normal life, sometimes we dream dreams that are somewhat in another dimension,
or physically impossible in real life, anyhow, I was dreaming that I was flying
in the sky, a lot of times I dream that I am flying, so, this dream is a normal
dream for me, and this is when I believe I have met the Lord Jesus Christ.
This is the dream,
I was dreaming that I was up in the sky above the
sub-continent of India and I was
searching for I don’t know what, there was a very large benevolent field force
near and above me, this force was filling about half the sky of India; I felt
that this heavenly force was very friendly to me, so, I did not do anything to
avoid it or to enquiry about it; at a certain point this force spoke to me to
introduce itself in a friendly manner saying:
Do you know who I am? (And then in answer to itself said) I AM THE MORNING
STAR.
Although this dream lasted a bit longer, there was not much else of importance
said after that between me and this field force and the dream slowly fades
away.
At the time of this dream I had no idea who could be THE MORNING STAR:
But since then I have found out that THE MORNING STAR
could only be The Lord Jesus Christ.
So, I believe that this dream is my close encounter with the lord Jesus Christ.
This is what I could call my relationship with
Jesus Christ.
Of course, THE MORNING STAR has different meanings
to different people, but for me in my dream THE MORNING STAR can only be The
Lord Jesus Christ, see Revelation the last page of the New Testament, where
Jesus introduced himself through this angel saying. I am of David’s line, the
root of David and the bright star of the morning. I believe that I don’t need
any other proof to believe that the morning star in my dream was indeed our
Lord Jesus Christ.
Now that I have talked to you about my religious
dreams, I can go back to talk about the first question, what were those old
religions like?
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What were some old religions like?
Because we want to analyze religions, in this article,
Importance of religion, I am writing this chapter not because I want my readers
to believe in old religions; but because I want my readers to see
that people have always needed religions. I want them to understand that even
though these religions were false, they gave the ancient people who believed in
those religions a sense of help, so, they felt better for practicing them and
believing in those religions.
Just to give you something to read about those old
religions, here is a link to one article in Hub Pages from Anita Smith; http://hub.me/agotI
Now if people can feel better practicing religion
even when later it proves to be false; then how much better it can be if one
practices a true religion were God is real? This is the question which I want
my readers to understand and to keep in mind, that the aim of my writings is to
find a way how one can find our real living God, and how to practice the true
religion. Anyhow, let me go back to talk about old religions.
Some of those pagan religions believed in many gods
and goddesses: The ancient Greeks and the Romans believed that their gods and
goddesses were immortal, and they lived on Mount Olympus Greece. Every god had
special tasks to perform, which were very much like the ministers of a
democratic government of today. Those gods had as their king Jupiter the most
powerful of them all, he had in his hands thunder bolts which could strike
anyone when he wanted; his wife was Juno who was a very strong and powerful
goddess. Jupiter was the son of Saturn and ruled all over the earth, there were
other gods and goddesses who helped Jupiter in doing what had to be done, some
of which were: Mars god of the war, Mercury, Apollo, Venus the goddess of love,
and many more. Jupiter also had two other brothers, one was Neptune king of the
seas, and the other was Pluto king of the underworld.
But if one wants to understand what these gods were
doing one should read old literature, like The Iliad, the Odyssey or The Enid
and other old books. There is a lot more to say about old religions: but since
old religions are a thing of the past, I believe that I have said enough.
Dear readers, I believe that humanity needs
religion to live a meaningful life; so, we must try to find and believe in the
true living God and the true religion, if we want to live our lives properly.
Today religion is not as popular as it used to be,
so, this question arises; what can we do to make religion attractive to people?
Do we need a different approach to Religion?
So, let me start from the beginning, and step by step by rational reasoning we must find our way to the meaning of religion in our life. So, in next article, I will talk about, People life and religion.
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May God bless us all.
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