May
God guide and help me to write the right religious things in this article?
Dear
readers, after talking about spiritual dreamland, our dreams and about God
existence, in our previous articles, in this article we would like to talk
about some spiritual circumstances in general in this chapter, and also about
our spiritual circumstances in this article, because everybody is not the same
and we live our lives the best way we can, so let us compare if we could what
we have done so far for a start, as this article is also part of Prayers for
Reconciliation religious writings.
You
see, when or if we look at our own religious life observations, some of which
we have already written here and many other religious things that the people
believe, we might have to agree that during our lives some sorts of spiritual
circumstances really do exist, since these are the circumstances that we happen
to live during our own lives and they should all be viewed together with our
other lives’ observations.
Now
this article is being written to explain some of these spiritual circumstances
including my own; but it is also being written to link with the other religious
articles that we have already written. As we have already said in our other
hubs, these religious writings are an idealistic theory and is being written in
good faith for the future benefit of mankind. In these writings we are in
search of ourselves in a religious way, so, while we are discussing what our
main spiritual circumstance would be, we would also be looking for religious
options that could improve links between religions, since existing religions
seem to be made to stay isolated, but today being isolated may not be the best
thing to do, so, it would be better if they start changing.
Anyhow,
in our last hub we have talked about, the
existence of God. In this hub we will be writing about:
my own spiritual circumstances, as spiritual circumstances exist; first meeting
discussions; there is a time for everything; my friends reply to our religious
talks and thinking about a prayer for this new ways of seeing God and
religions.
Now,
I believe that here we should have been saying something for our reader’s peace
of mind, because what we are saying is different from normal religious talks;
but because we do not want to repeat the same article many times, we advise our
readers that they can find this explanation in full in our next hub, Prayers of
reconciliation; now, let us look at spiritual circumstances.
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Spiritual circumstances exist
Dear
readers we would like to bring to your attention that spiritual circumstances
exist, because everything that is religious, by default is also spiritual; this
also applies to what we have already said before, where we have somehow come to
the conclusion in the hub called ‘God exists because life exists’, first we
have assumed that God exists at least by definition, and then we have also
assumed that God exists even if God is different from the God how it is written
in the Bible, and we have been taught to believe in; we have also talked about
spiritual dreams; this is the link to check it out; Cosmic
Spiritual Dreams, 7 , and we also have published
Prayers for reconciliation, 5; this is the link to check it out Prayers
for Reconciliation, 5,
Now,
what follows here-under has been born from the need of circumstances, because
spiritual circumstances exist as we have explained above, and also as you can
see for yourself. You see, here we are talking about everything put together;
but then we have also to say that what we have written in Prayers for
Reconciliation (hub 5) and my spiritual dreams and other religious things, they
are all driving me to write these religious writings that I am writing here, in
the hope that I would be able to link them better; I hope that you can see the
link more clearly now that spiritual circumstances exist.
You
see after that supernatural experience that I had then, as written in “prayers
for reconciliation hub” and I need to say here that for a long time I kept that
supernatural happening to myself, as I felt that I had to keep it to myself
somehow, because when these unusual things happen and you tell someone they
think you are going crazy.
Therefore,
before I told anyone, I had to think it over many times whether I should tell
at least my most trusted friends about this supernatural and unbelievable
happening, because what I saw and heard at that time could only make sense to
myself and nobody else. Anyhow, in the end I came to the conclusion that I had
to tell at least my most trusted friends, even if they might think that I was
crazy, after all they were my friends, and if they think that I am crazy they
will try to help me anyhow, and so I did tell them.
And
just as I thought, the very first time that I told my friends about the
supernatural event they seemed worried about what I had just told them, and
after consulting among themselves for a while they came back to me and said;
If
you really believe in what you have seen and heard to be true, and you have not
dreamed it or invented it, but really it has happened to you, then, we have to
believe you no more questions about that. And then later on they went on
saying, if what you are saying is true, then the question arises what can one
do about it? And also what are you going to do about it?
So
I replied to them, that although I felt within myself that I wanted to do
something about it, for me it would not be easy to tell the world of this
supernatural happening, because very likely they would think that I was crazy,
and then, how could I make the world believe that it had really happened to me?
So I said that I had to think it over.
Now,
I do not know why my friends came to my rescue, whether they wanted to know
more about my mental state, or just for friendship sake, my fried Mark said:
because you don’t seem to feel sure about yourself, we, (that is me and Gino
here) are ready to help you in any way possible, as we feel within our hearts
that you need some help to encourage you to do something about it, or at least
talk about it, if you so wish, so that we would understand you better and also
your mind would become clear.
Then
my lifelong friend Mark said to Gino: Would you be ready to help Frank, Gino
with this somehow strange religious
matter that is on his mind?
And
Gino said yes.
This
is how I accepted to write some of these religious writings with the help of my
friends Mark and Gino.
So
now, I am going to call on my friends to have a good talk about these religious
writings, since they believe me when I talk to them about my spiritual
circumstances.
Before
I call this meeting with Mark and Gino, let me say a prayer of reconciliation
to God Most-High our Heavenly Father, so that I would become inspired and worthy
to write these religious writings, that I am hoping to write with the help of
my friends of course.
My Lord God, Almighty and merciful
Father, to you I turn Father-Most-High praying with all my heart, my soul and
my mind earnestly; I am praying and hoping that in your mercy you would forgive
me all my life sins, and that you would make me spiritually clean of any
impurities that may affect my soul; so that, I would become worthy to pray to
you and be heard and worthy in your eyes to be your humble servant, and then be
able to write these religious writings as humanly as possible according to your
will. Father, hear my prayer and bless me! Amen.
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First religious meeting
Dear
readers, perhaps you are saying, why bring in your friends to talk about these
religious issues, when you already know most of the answers about what you want
to write and discuss? But you see even I need reassurance, and since my friends
were willing to help me, when we had this meeting, I feel that I could use
their help. Anyhow at this first religious meeting Mark, Gino and three other
friends came as they had promised.
At
the beginning of this meeting we were all behaving just like children, as we
all wanted to push above all our own views without listening to each other, so
I thought that the meeting was going to be just a waste of time, and we would
be talking about the same old stuff that blokes talk about when they are
together; that is the way that it was going on, what else could it be but a
waste of time, as we had never had a meeting before with an agenda in mind to
discuss. But then, my friend Mark soon became aware of my feelings and he said;
Look the way we are going about is not going to get us anywhere, if we want to
help Frank, and since we are here to help Frank, then, let Frank be the one who
talks first. After he states his views we will have plenty of time to state our
own views.
So,
there and then, I had to put my very mixed thoughts into words, and I didn’t
even know how to start in front of my friends, as confusion was on my mind, not
because I was really confused, but because what I wanted to say was so complex,
just because what I was aiming to achieve at this meeting was not easy, since
we had a decision to make about these future religious writings that I wanted
to write, therefore everything that I had in mind was complex, but in the end I
tried to concentrate and said:
My
dear friends, I can feel within my heart that you are my friends indeed,
because you have come forward to help me on this very difficult decision that I
am facing today of your own free will. Now let it be understood before we start
that this task of mine is not going to be easy for anyone of us to achieve, so
if you still want to help me to succeed in writing my religious theory, which I
would like to write, because of my personal spiritual circumstances, then, first
of all I will have to tell you that it is going to be hard; because, what I
have in mind to write is going to be a very controversial religious subject, so
there will be lots of people that are not going to agree with our religious
views, but then because of my spiritual circumstances, I feel that I want to do
it anyhow, and because I believe that there is a time for everything, and this
might be the right time for me to start; now this religious changing time that
I am talking about I believe is very close, so, I feel that even now is time to
start. Having said that I have also to say to you this, if you are my helper,
because people may not like what I am going to write, they could also not like
you for helping me. So you better consider that for yourself right now, I hope
that I have been able to express myself clear enough, for you to understand the
situation that I am in now.
Having
warned you of what might happen to us all, now I feel free to say how I see
this unusual situation and try to reason what can be done. I believe that it
really takes more than a few very wise people to be able to begin solving this
problematic religious situation that exists in the world today, and whether the
existing religious situation could and would be solved nobody knows. So this
question arises; in theory, are we going to be wise enough to solve it or
suggest a solution? Or at least to get it started in the right direction? So
that one-day humanity would be able to solve these religious problems that we
see today, as we all know about the atheists and above all the religious
extremists that they seem to put the entire world in
danger, by using their extreme religious views and beliefs.
I
need to say that I have reasons to believe that it all depends on our wisdom
and our beliefs, here I am not talking only about myself, but I am also talking
about how the rest of the wise people of the world are going to see this
religious situation and try to help. As for ourselves let us make it simple to
start with, So, let us believe that there is a god; because if we believe that
there is a god, then it follows that if we believe in God and religions and
pray God, then God will help us achieve what we are willing to achieve for the
people sake, but we need to be wise ourselves and at the same time search also
for some wise people help
So,
we need to be wise and employ also some wise people, we need wisdom, so, let us
talk about Wisdom, which is something that we are going to need so much, if we
are going to solve anything at all, so here under are written our views about
wisdom since we are going to need it, some of you might say, why talk about
wisdom now, when we are supposed to be talking about religions, but we need
wisdom because wisdom is the link that links things together, so, even if
wisdom is not our main issue that we are talking about here, we are going to
need wisdom and wise people, in order to solve today religious issues.
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Wisdom and knowledge
Our human views about wisdom and knowledge
During
our lives many issues arise and some of them are easy to solve, some others
issues are not that easy to solve; for instance, today we would like to solve these
religious problems that exist in the world, just because we see and believe
that there are religious problems; so, how do we go about to solve them? First
of all, we look at these religious issues and try to work out a solution, we
see that these religious issues are also spiritual circumstances for all the
people involved in them, therefore we have to be very careful here as they are
not easy to solve; the only thing that we can do here is use our wisdom to sort
these things out, if we happen to have any wisdom. Now let us explain wisdom:
Wisdom is the mental capacity of a wise person, whom when confronted with a
problem is able to solve it better than the average person.
Now,
let us explain wisdom the way we see it; wisdom of a single person is usually
an accumulated knowledge of all those events that this person has lived during
his/her life; therefore, this wise person is capable somehow of using this
accumulated knowledge for his own advantage, or for helping other people; therefore,
when a problem arises this wise person would be able to solve the problems
better than the other people around him/her.
It
is not known why one wise person becomes wiser than somebody else, even though
they might have lived most of the same events together, so, we may have to
guess at the reasons why, so, let us say that some people are better able to
assimilate their accumulated
knowledge, perhaps by storing it at the highest level in
their own mind and when the need arises they would be able to use this
accumulated knowledge to their advantage.
Since
wisdom (accumulated knowledge) may be stored at one level higher that just
logic reasoning, so, it may seem and feel like a sixth sense to the wise man
that has it. The wise man knowing what he should do by this intuition of his
sixth sense, he also uses logic reasoning just to make sure that everything is
all right, this way he is able to back up his wisdom.
Of
course there are other possibilities also, so we better mention something about
this, some people believe that there is also a small possibility that the wise
person may be able to tune into the cosmos, or the spiritual life force of the
universe which is thought that it may be able to store the entire accumulated
knowledge of everything in the entire universe just like God, this thought of
course gives rise to this question.
Is
the cosmos an integral part of God of the universe? Well it may be part of God.
But
here we are talking about wisdom and not God. So the definition of wisdom and
where it comes from might still remain a mystery to most of us, but that does
not matter because we can use wisdom our accumulated knowledge to achieve our
goals. Therefore, we are going to use our accumulated knowledge, which together
with our logic reasoning may be able to come close to achieve what we want to
achieve today. And as I have said before, it seems to me that now the time has
come for us to do something about it, I see it is about time and you may see it
also that there is a time for everything and now is the right time, so let us
try and see what needs to be done, and let us study what is around us first, so
that we may understand better the situation, we are in, before we do
unnecessary things that could make the situation even worse, but anyhow it
seems to me that the time has come for us to do something about these religious
beliefs that seem to lead the people into a harmful situation these days.
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THERE IS A TIME FOR EVERYTHING
Dear
friends, from our own life experiences and observations, we may have reasons to
believe, that today we are approaching a time in our lives, when religious
beliefs and other ways of life in general might need to be reviewed and perhaps
changed somehow, they need to be changed, because there are so many problems
that arises from them and they need to be fixed, at least this is the way we
see it, so we believe that this is the right time to start doing it.
So,
let us say just a few more words about this present time, first of all, I and
my present friends here believe, and for sure we believe that most people would
agree with us here, that there is a time for everything, and soon or later this
time will come. In our case today we would be talking about our religious views
and that most things would continually change and what today seems just perfect
as everything is, tomorrow those same things might seem completely out of
place, therefore, some adjustment would be required to make it good again and
be able to fulfil those things which were supposed to be fulfilled in the first
place; now, since here we are talking about religions and religions are made to
serve mankind, any changes that we would like to make should be made for the
future benefit of mankind, so that religions may continue to serve humanity.
Now
that I have started to talk about there is a time for everything and I believe
that there is a time for everything, let us go back to the facts that I was
telling you in the beginning, because this may be the real reason why I have
felt strongly that there is a time for everything, since just now I feel that
there are things that need to be done now, perhaps this was also the reason why
that supernatural event happened to me and set in motion my spiritual
circumstances, so let me say a few more things about that happening.
Even
before the supernatural encounter that I have mentioned before in our hub
called, Prayers for reconciliation, I was aware that the world’s religions
clashed with each other’s in many ways, and that it was indeed time for
somebody somehow to come up with some new ideas on how to fix those
differences, in order to make the world a better place to live in, or at least
keep it going the best way we could.
So,
I was thinking and asking myself, what anyone could possibly do to improve this
unrealistic damaging religious situation that exist today. Sometimes I ask
myself how much of these beliefs contributed to my religious vision.
Because
I did find myself in this religious dilemma as I have been saying above, I made
an effort in order to understand these religious situations better and also for
my own good, so, I did some research and read a few
religious books, and after reading and thinking a lot
about what I had read, by pure logic of reasoning I came to my own conclusion
of the existing religious situation, therefore you see I have formed my own
religious beliefs.
Here
I want to point out to you that I have reached my own conclusion by pure logic
human reasoning, and I want also to say this, I believe that we (the human
race) are now ready and able to understand our own religious situation better
than before, and therefore, we are able to do something about it these days,
you see before it was a lot harder to do anything religious and otherwise; but
today it is a lot easier, because today we are advancing rapidly in all fields
of knowledge and learning, thanks to the computer and other electronic devices
that bring knowledge to the people at large. So the people in general are now
entering the age of knowledge and REASON, and everything that in the future
will not be able to stand to our logic and benevolent human
REASON or reasons, which are the scrutiny of all
aspect of life and beliefs, will be rejected by humanity.
Now,
having reached this stage of understanding about the progress we humans are
achieving today, I was looking for some positive signs or news that humanity
was doing something about it, in order to rectify this religious problem that
exist today; but I was shocked to see that nobody was doing anything worthwhile
which could be able to improve the situation, here I would like to say that the
tragic event of 9-11 was one of the triggers that got me thinking even harder.
It
was for this reason that I came to the conclusion that perhaps I should be
doing something myself, and having started this thinking in mind I started to
write a few articles just for myself to see if I could come up with any good
ideas on how to achieve something useful, therefore I had already writing some
of my own religious beliefs when that supernatural encounter happened.
Therefore, in a way I have reasons to believe that perhaps it was just because
I had written those religious articles that supernatural encounter happened to
me.
You
may ask why I started writing anyhow. And I will tell you that deep within my
heart my soul and my mind I was feeling that I had to do something about these
existing religious beliefs, because in my mind eyes I felt as if I was called
to write what I was writing then.
Here
I am not going to be able to write all the reasons why I am writing this last
paragraph but what I would like to say is that in a way the human race has left
it become overdue, even though at the same time one may say that humanity is
advanced so much and we have reached the age of reason, but even though some of
us might have reached the age of reason, we are not really using all our mental
capacity so to speak.
Now
let me go back to my dear friends and say that I have been talking a lot
myself, so I have not yet given you the chance to have your say, so now let me
only ask you this:
Do
you think that by pulling our knowledge together and working together we would
be able to suggest to the world how to improve the present religious situation,
so that violent things that happen in the name of God and religions may be
avoided in the future?
Since
what we would like to achieve are these things written below:
SINCE WE BELIEVE THERE IS A TIME FOR
EVERYTHING;
This
could be the right time to start with, therefore;
We
would like to set the stage for the entire world to see
When
you read these pages we hope that you would agree
That
here we are trying hard to find a way to save all humanity
While
we are praying God who may be willing to save us for eternity
For
this reason, I am going to pray God to help me.
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That
is all I need to say for now;
Now
you can have yours, and say what you want whenever you are ready.
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My friends answer
MY
FRIENDS REACTION TO MY SPEECH
After
I finished my long speech or talk, my friends had a long talk among themselves
I suppose they were considering what I had just said, and after a while Gino
came to me and said: We understand now why you are slow in accepting our help,
but really when we look at the way you feel about all this religious stuff and
your spiritual circumstances, you believe you are in, we know that we have to
help you; beside we are so much interested in your religious writing project
that we are ready to help you anyhow, even if it is just another way of just
getting together and talk about it.
You
see, we have been thinking that just to make things easy for everybody
involved, we have decided that I (Gino) and Mark will speak for all our friends
when we think that you should know our views on this religious subject. So that
it would be easier for you to keep records of what is being said, because if you
are really serious and want to write this religious theory of yours, which you
have in mind to do, you need to keep records of everything that is being said.
Then
I said: I agree with you that I have to keep records of all the most important
things that are being said, otherwise I will get lost in the jungle of all what
is being said to me.
And
they kept talking to me about religious possibilities for another hour at
least, and as we were talking they started to realize that the only way for me
to achieve what I wanted to achieve in my religious writings was that we had to
somehow try to modify existing religious beliefs, perhaps as little as we could
otherwise religious believer would be upset. Now, I want to point out that I
was already saying to them that religious beliefs need to be modified in my
writings and not changed altogether, but the first time they became really
concerned and shocked from this necessary changes that I was forecasting, for
them it seemed that perhaps I had lost my mind, because during their lives they
have always believed in the way they had been brought up according to the Christian
teaching; so they started to asked me then:
Don’t
you think that believing in anything else other than what is written in the
Bible would be a sin? And you are saying that you want to move away, or partly
move away from the Bible teachings that we have today?
We
are a bit worried about this aspect of your religious beliefs, so we would like
to hear how you are going to explain your religious beliefs in such a way that
they would still be agreeable to God and the rest of the community?
I
know that what I have in mind at this point of time is not going to be easy to
convince anyone, I said; and for this reason I am thinking hard what to say or
do next.
And
they kept talking and asking questions like the following.
If
you believe that there is something wrong with the way that the Bible has been
written; do you have in mind to read and review the Bible? What parts of the
Bible do you have in mind to review?
We
believe that first of all you ought to make sure what you want to say or do,
because as we see it, it could even be a bit dangerous to say what you want to
say without thinking about what can happen next. You need to think that for
every action there is also a reaction, and sometimes that reaction is not what
you want to happen?
Therefore,
be very careful about what you say. Now because what we are talking here is
about God and religions, we council you to pray God for guidance and for help
first of all, Mark and Gino said, because you are really going to need a lot of
help and acceptance from above to succeed in your attempt about writing this religious
theory of yours. But anyhow as I said at this point of time they had started to
accept my way of thinking.
Then
the meeting was adjourned, as we had spent too much time already on this
matter, I was feeling tired and so were my friends of talking these serious
religious matters. So we went back to talk for a short time about what friends
talk when they get together and everyone went to his own home to rest.
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Thinking a prayer to God
Thinking
about writing a prayer to God
That
night I started thinking whether I really needed to pray God for help, as my
friends have suggested above, and how I should pray God for help in order to be
allowed by God to write my own religious theory, as close as possible to my own
way of thinking and according to God’s will.
After
a long time, I came up with a possible acceptable prayer; but before I say or
write my prayer, I want the reader to know that all the prayers within this
book will be prayers directed only to God, as God is the highest and most holy
of all existing entities, therefore to pray to anything else will not make much
sense unless there is a special reason for it. So, here-under is written this
prayer to god to start with.
With
my personal concerns I come to you praying Father Most High, Master of the
universe and eternal life giver of all living things, I am praying thee for
forgiveness of my sins and reconciliation to thy eternal life force, I am
praying in the hope that my prayers would be heard and accepted and be your
humble servant and serve you by writing this religious theory.
Deep
in my heart there is this force that drives me to write these religious
beliefs, so, I am praying you Eternal Father that you would inspire me and help
me, so that I would be able to write those religious writings as humanly as
possible according to your will.
Father,
hear my prayer forgive me my sins and bless me, so that I can be your humble
servant and serve you by writing those religious writings. Amen.
I
believe that I have said enough in this hub, so, I will be continuing with our
religious writing with next hub called; Prayers of Reconciliation, there will
be many more prayers written in there.
May
god guide me to say the right things?
May
God bless us all?
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