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Religious people contribution
Moses meets God on Mount Sinai in the form of a burning bush and talked to God. Starting from this meeting, Moses is the person that has contributed the most, since it is said that the first five books of the Bible were written by him, and even if he did not write them personally, he passed on enough knowledge to his follower to write them.
Religious people contribution
This is a study or religions and how they
have served and are serving humanity
When we look at the religions that we have today, we have to say that they have not
changed much for a very long time; they are
the same old religions that we have had for centuries, because people have not
contributed much for a very long time; but this attitude needs to change soon,
so that, religions may fulfil their role properly; if we observe religions
closely today’s religions seem to grow stale, because there is no real new
religious contribution from the people, and therefore we all seem to be living
in the past in a religious way; perhaps religions are also growing stale
because they are old fashioned, as nobody seems to suggest that they need to be
modified if not changed altogether, in order to fall in line with the times
that we live in these progressive days.
You see, today everything else is changing
quickly, because of this new electronic era and for these reasons they seem old
fashioned and stale; but at the same time religions seem to go a bit out of
fashion for this same reason. So, if we believe in God and a benevolent God for
that matter, or if we believe that religions are beneficial to mankind, we
should ask ourselves, is there anything that needs to be done to reverse this
negative religious trend? Is there a need for today religious people to
contribute something new, so that religions would be able to look just as
attractive as they used to be in the past, when everything seemed to stand
still?
For this reason, we believe that the time has
come to look at religions and what they have been able to achieve in the past
for the benefit of all humanity, once we have learned that, then we will have
the option to decide what could be done about it, in order to keep them in
touch with today trend. We have reasons to believe that in the past religions
have contributed a great deal more to humanity than nowadays, just because the
people then were simple minded and would accept religious beliefs just the way
it was explained to them.
Today people know a lot more than they used
to know in the past and they start asking questions about our religious beliefs,
perhaps this could be the reason why religions seems that it is running out of
steam. As we were saying perhaps one of the reasons is that mankind has not
changed any major religious beliefs for about two thousand years or there
about, that is of course if one believes and follows religion according to the
Bible and other old religious books that derive from the Bible and other old
religions. One of the reasons is that we would like to believe that religious
beliefs cannot be changed, because they are part of these eternal spiritual
forces, therefore because these eternal forces don’t change also religious
beliefs should not change, but if we look closely we will discover that
religious beliefs can change and at the same time remain attached to the same eternal
spiritual forces.
Of course we need to say here 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 at this present time, so, our comments about them will be limited even
when we write about them later on in our religious
writings, that is at the time when we cannot avoid to write about them
any longer. So, today this question arises what has mankind done about
religions lately? I believe that we the people of this earth have not done
enough to keep religions progressing at the same speed as mankind progress
itself. That is why religions start looking stale to say the least and that is
why sometimes the atheists attack religions; Here I would like to suggest that
we really need some religious people would contribute something to get
religions back to their former importance, so that those attacks would stop
happening.
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More religious contribution is required
Therefore today when we ask ourselves; what
have we done about religious beliefs lately? Have we suggested or changed
anything that would make religions easier for the modern people? I guess that
the answer will be that we have not done very much at all. What we are saying
here is that after the Bible was written including the New Testament no other
major changes in beliefs have happened, even though later on the Koran has been
written, The
Koran -- Simple Search this is the link if you want to check it out; and also the book
of Mormon Book of
Mormon, has been written, and the authors of these two books assure us
that they have written them according to some divine interventions that they
personally experienced. However these two religious books always refer to
religion and happenings of the Bible; so it seems to me that they derive from
the religious teaching in the Bible, even when they show some new happenings.
There are also a few smaller and
less known religions, which have in common the Bible, since the Bible seems to
be the most important and first known religious book of the western world; for
what we know it is very likely the first five books of the Bible have been
written before any other existing religious book in the whole wide world; but
some scholars believe that Hinduism is one of the first religions recorded; one
of the main books of Hinduism is the Laws of Manu, The Laws of Manu
Anyhow here let us go back to 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, www.catholic.org/bible/ since
Moses had to write 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 being written by Moses of the house of Levi a very
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
scribers to continue to write in order to keep the record of all main events
religious and otherwise; so, for about sixteen hundred years or there about all
the main religious and historic events were thus recorded.
Now we have to 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.
Here we are talking about changes in religions, so, some of our religious readers might be worried about it, and so, we usually write here something for our reader’s peace of mind, but to avoid repetitions we are going to give you a link where you could find this article, in these religious writings; Religious view point, check it out if you have not read it already.
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Why we stopped writing the Bible
Mankind stopped writing the Bible, but what could be the reasons?
Before I start
talking about why we stopped writing the bible I am praying God for guidance;
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 would be able to 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 mentioned already, from the very
beginning the Bible has been written from the Israelite, it is the religion of
Israel as Yahweh their god fills all the pages of this religious book, it is
also the history of Israel since the Bible tells us just 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,
but after that the Israelite or perhaps we should say mankind for various reasons
stopped writing the Bible; so let us see briefly what could have been the
reasons?
One of these reasons could be that after the
Jews (Israelite) crucified the lord Jesus Christ because in the end they did
not like what he was preaching, since this would be changing from the old
accepted religious ways, they went their own way; therefore when this happened
religion became split and the followers of Jesus Christ followed their own
beliefs, but the Jews kept believing what they had always believed, so the
history book of Israel the Bible was not continued as before, and if it was it
is not written in the Bible as we know it today?
As we all know the Bible as we Christians
know it 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 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, in a way or another, 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 one could say a curse to anyone who would change anything that the
writer John has written, so it is almost freighting and this is perhaps another
reason to take into account, why the Bible has stopped being written; but we
believe that we have already talked about this Bible ending in another article,
the second meeting, John’s speech; and again in other places, this is one link
to check it out Biblical
discussions and again
we have mentioned this in Bible review about Bible curses. I am not going to
repeat that in full here, so I am going only to state that this could be the
cause.
But now to highlight the main subject at hand
and the reason why we are writing this article today, we have to 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 and this is not a
satisfactory answer, because we believe that something needs to be done to keep
religions going. Anyhow about the Bible and about the Bible
curses will have
to talk another time, as there are too many subject to deal with at this
present time.
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Let us review our task
Looking at what we
have just said, we believe that mankind as a whole, or at least the religious
leaders have got to look seriously at religions, not just look and believe what
they are being told, but they have to use their common sense and logic
explanations; if they do that then they will see that the time has come to
renew religious beliefs, in such a way that they would be acceptable to today people
and even the atheists if possible; here we should also say that anything that
is being written in religious circle, it should take into account what is
happening in the religious world today; here we are thinking about the Muslim
extremist that kill people in the name of their God Allah; so anything that is
going to be changed should be changed in a way that discourages these religious
extremist to use religions for their own ends.
Therefore, one
should 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
religion, in the hope that the people of the world would get a better
understanding of the whole situation, in the hope that it would make it easier
for them to believe in one God, and this is what we are trying to start
happening in these religious writings.
But at the same
time, nowadays to make people believe in religion is not an easy task, as we
the people of the world would like to believe in religion only if there are
some advantages for us, and if there are not any personal sacrifices. We
believe that it is a well known fact, that we don’t accept everything that is
being said to us easily these days, because we believe that we know a lot more
than we used to know a long time ago. So, we challenge any existing beliefs if
they don’t seem to be exactly right in our mind: That is if our knowledge and
intelligence don’t run in a parallel way with those beliefs. Therefore this is
the dilemma that mankind is facing nowadays; it is all because our knowledge
has increased a lot and we have set our own standard higher, so as soon as we
are told about something old, or something new, or some beliefs we want
mentally to check that everything that is being told to us meets our own
standard of knowledge and runs in a parallel way with our knowledge.
Therefore, if we
want to write about religious beliefs or anything else for that matter, we
would have to write them in a certain way, which would run in a parallel way to
the acquired knowledge that we have reached today. So, in order to show how we
could reconcile every existing living thing to the living God, or existing
God’s life-force, we need to write our writings in a religious way in every
aspect; but those religious writings will have to be written in a way
acceptable to mankind as well, otherwise it will be a waste of time to write
anything religious or otherwise. Now since I am a believer and believe that I
need help to be able to write what I am trying to write, let me pray God our
Father to help me.
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Praying God for help
Looking at the enormous task that we need to
undertake to review religions, it is obvious that whoever undertakes such task
needs help to sort it out, you see, if it was easy it would have been done a
long time ago; therefore because we need help, the first thing that comes to
mind to any believers is to pray God, and thus I am praying God to help me. 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 in the quest for the truth, so that I would
be able to write these religious writings according to God’s will; here I
humbly say; Father, hear my prayer and help me!
As you can see, I have just prayed our Lord
God, because right now I would not be able to continue to write these religious
writings without God’s help.
TO MY READERS
In this article that we have called now,
Religious people contribution, after changing the name from, what has mankind
done, because that title did not really mention the religious part of this
article? I believe that I need to explain to our readers a bit more, what the
reasons are and why we feel that it would be helpful to write about religious
beliefs, for the future benefit of mankind.
The following explanation is one of the many
possible explanations, which we can offer to you by explaining why we should
write these religious beliefs.
Religion may 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 nowadays from some religious people, it seems to me that some
people are distorting those existing religious rules therein, so that they can
gain some personal advantages for themselves instead. And we know that it is
definitely wrong for them to do that.
So, we are thinking that in our writings we
have to try to find a way out, about how people could easily avoid these
possible religious distortions; or better still try to set our religious
writings in such a way that it would be harder for people to take advantage of
those religious rules.
What sort of distortions one may ask? For
instance, in the world of today some people are not using religion for the
benefit of the whole community: But they are using religion as a weapon to
inflict punishment to others, and some of these punishments are so extreme and
violent. This behaviour upsets us all and makes us wonder whether they have
anything to do with religion at all; or, are these violent persons just a bunch
of crazy people? We do not know what they are doing; but we know that they don’t
behave as religious
people should do.
So, in order to overcome that, the answer may
well be 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 here under:
Let it be known to all humanity
that there is only one God throughout the universe, and God is 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 have also to believe and think while we are
living here on earth that every living thing one day must die and must return
to Him.
We believe that things described
in a collective like what we have written above may be able to help somehow.
Let us discuss it
Therefore we believe that it would be better
for all humanity to believe in this living God as described above, because a
god like that involves everybody on earth and therefore in a way binds all
religions together, we need a god like that because there is no better way
available for us and there is no other god but this living God which we all
should believe in; any other way is to become an atheist and not believe in God
at all, and then blame only our own violent temper if we do violent things.
Of course mankind as a whole has got a
problem in believing in the same God, because there is this driving force
within us and it drives us in such a way which makes us wanting to be better
than the fellow next door. Therefore, it is in our nature that we don’t like to
be just the same as everyone else, and we don’t even want to believe in the
same God otherwise we are the same as anybody else, so our god has got to be
better than all other people gods, now I hope you see what we mean we sometime
say that we want a god only for ourselves.
But if we change and accept a few things as
we have already said above and say that there is only one God throughout the
universe, and then religious things may become better. You see, it needs to be
like that because this would be the only way to stop these 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 ether 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 believe in this God,
so, we have to set aside our pretence of being better than somebody else, and
find a way on how to believe in the same God together, so that we can live in
harmony together.
Of course there are also other reasons why we
end up in not believing in the same God, and this is why we have to try to
understand our own behaviour. But the facts remain that every one of us has got
to believe in this same God who
is our life giver; even though most of us would like to believe that this god is
different from the god which other people believe in, just to justify that
feeling within us which wants us to feel at a higher level of anybody else.
There are also many other reasons, some of
which may only be that we describe God in a different way, while we are really
talking about the same God. Whatever is the case mankind needs to adjust
whatever needs to be adjusted, in order to get everybody believing in the same
God.
Therefore I believe that it would be helpful
if we write our religious writings, instead of only asking, what has mankind
done to adjust religious beliefs? Because in our religious writings we will try
to find a way in common which will help people believe in the same God who is
the life force of the whole universe, in the hope that this life force would be
able to link all religions together, or just show humanity that all religions
can be linked together. And this is the reason why we want to write these
religious writings for the future benefit of mankind; so I pray God to help me
to solve this problem, which still seems very messy today to say the least. And
this would be my religious contribution.
(This paragraph is outside our religious
issues, but I am writing this just because I have noted that every time I have
edited my hubs, it seems to me that I am being voted down for no good reasons.
May God of the universe put an end to this malicious people reaction?)
May God help me?
Prayers of Reconciliation; Religious people
contribution
IS TO CONTINUE, Next time with, Importance of
religion?
See you soon.
May God bless us all?
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