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Religions could be man made
Religions could be man made
May God guide and help me to say the right
things in these religious writings?
There are reasons to believe that religions
could be man-made, we say that they could be man-made, because we don’t want to
say straight away that they are man-made, we need to give the benefit of doubts
here, because we don’t have the proof required to say that they are man-made?
Now, if we assume that religious are
man-made, we have to continue to search for the proof required to establish
that. Because that would be hard to achieve we may have to believe that
religions are man-made, and if we believe that religions are man-made then we
need to explain religions in a better way and in different ways also, we need
to explain why they have been made up first of all, and then why they have been
made up the way that they have been made up.
But that is not all because religions might
not be all made up, you see, we still have to take into account the spiritual
side of our religious beliefs. The spiritual side even though is somehow a bit
different between religions, all religions have a spiritual side, so we have to
assume that there is a spiritual side, and from this spiritual side people have
made up our religious beliefs.
Of course we know that there are some other
reasons that we know already, why they have been made up the way they are today,
as our religious friends were saying about religions in our last few hubs,
there are reasons to believe that we need to explain religions in a better and
perhaps in a different way, if we want religions
to continue to
serve humanity, as they have done in the past for thousands of years, we have
also to admit that religions sometimes have done the wrong things, but overall
they have served humanity well.
Let us start to talk about religious books
The Koran, the religious book of the Muslim.
The Laws of Manu, is one of the main religious books of the Indian religion.
Dear readers, as we have already seen from our previous posts and religious discussions with our friends, there are many other religions in the world; therefore we might have to assume that religions could be very likely man made; now, this does not mean that God does not exist at all, but it means that we should not follow blindly all religions and religious leaders who claim whatever they claim to be true in their religious orders. Therefore, we should first of all use our common sense and if we see that something does not make sense, then we should use our logic common sense and really check it out to see if there is any possibilities that what is being said may or may not be true.
If we talk about the Bible, perhaps what we
want to prove here for a start is not whether seven days of at the beginning of
the Bible were really seven days or thousands of years; but we also want to
prove that whatever is written in the Bible is the truth, which I am afraid it
might not be so; look at our hub, Flood
in the days of Noah, here we may assume that we have proof that the universal flood
was not as universal as we have been led to believe when we read the Bible, the
flood may indeed have happened, but it did not cover the entire world.
Therefore, it is time that mankind wakes up
and sees the truth, I know that this is going to hurt many believers, but the
truth is that man wrote the bible, perhaps it was God
inspiration at the
beginning, but then they wrote and re-wrote it until whoever were in possession
of the Bible words could control all believer under them. This is what I
believe myself, but then I might be wrong. So here again I would like to
consult and employ the help of our religious friends to see what they have to
say about this religious dilemma.
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Talking about religious issues
Talking religious issues with our religious
friends
Since we have the intention of continuing to
write these religious writings, even if they are becoming a bit hard how to
write them and also to meet with our religious friends to talk about religions,
I believe that I may have to change the way of how I collect my religious
discussions and also other issues that come with publishing these writings on
the Internet. So, I am going to talk to our friends about this whenever and
wherever I meet one of them, or several of them.
The other day I went to see Mark and we
talked for a while about these religious issues, in our talks we somehow came
to the conclusion that perhaps we really need to criticise the way the Bible is
being explained to the believers, whenever and wherever we believe that they
have got it wrong, with this view in mind we did not mean that the Bible is/was
wrong, but the way that people use it might be wrong, because of all those double
meanings that occur in the Bible.
Then there is also the facts that when
the Bible was written for the
first time, everything was a lot different from today, therefore the Bible was
written according to those time in order to guide the people of those times,
therefore if the Bible was to be written these days it definitely would have
been written in a different way, we are pretty sure about that.
Now, keeping in mind what we have just said
above, I and Mark believe that it might be necessary to write a few articles to
show what we mean about criticising the Bible, whenever and wherever we believe
there are issues that don’t agree with our own understanding of the Bible, just
to show the public how we see those religious issues.
Here we have to admit that I am really
thinking about this religious issue, because it does worry me a bit, because
most people don’t like anybody that criticise the Bible openly, but anyhow it
might be necessary to do it; not only because we would like to show the world
that some of those meanings are wrong, but also because it is necessary to know
they are wrong and that it is necessary to do something about it and show what
they could mean.
Now the question arises, where we can find
an important enough religious issue that needs to be reported to the public so
to speak. So that one day people would understand why this theory of,
Reconciliation of the universe has been written. So, I am thinking what the
public or our religious friends could say about all this.
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Religious discussions with friends
Religious discussions with our religious
friends Gino and Peter
A few days after my meeting with Mark, just
by chance I encountered Gino and Peter; this is Peter that said that he believed
in religions very
much like Gino, we have met Peter in one of the last articles, if I remember
right he said that perhaps there must be another logic explanation why the
Bible claims that man was made from plain dirt.
Anyhow after chatting about a few
unimportant but happy events, where people try to have good time and tell a
joke or two and laugh, we ended up again talking about religions, as I asked them
whether they had given any thought about what we were discussing last time we
met.
Well they said, we have indeed thought a
bit about it, perhaps not very seriously and we still believe that there must
be another explanation why the Bible says that man was made from plain dirt.
Yes indeed there could not only be just another explanation, but perhaps it is
more likely that there are several explanations, so we could indeed tell you
what we think might have happened in those times, which is just as we all have
been thinking that religions are man made after all, therefore we must look at
the reasons why man wanted that God
would create man from
plain dirt. While this was going on they seemed as if they were trying hard to
compete with each other, and each one of them was trying to tell me his story
first, as if it was a competition about who told the best story first.
Okay I said, I see that you both want to
tell me this story of how things could have happened then, but take your time
and tell me one story that would or could make sense so to speak and let us try
to speak one at a time, so let us start with a story that both of you believe
that it could have been possible.
Therefore, just for the time being, let us
get started by telling me one of those stories that seems to be a bit more
believable so to speak. Gino as you are older you can start by telling me this
story and Peter can just come in whenever it is appropriate, and thus Gino
started talking.
As we have already said about the creation
of man before, man cannot be created from dirt, because even God has got to be
subject to the laws of nature, because God first and foremost uses the natural
ways to create or achieve anything, we believe that this is God’s way of doing
things.
But the ancient Jews wanted that their God
had to be more powerful than all the other gods put together, so they invented
or gave their God this extra power, and their God was so powerful that could
even create a man from plain dirt.
Here Peter comes in and says do you see
what we mean? They (the Jews) wanted this super god that had so much super
powers that was even able to create a man from dirt.
Can you just imagine how powerful a god
must be since this God could create a real man from plain dirt? He would indeed
be Omnipotent and nothing and no one could we more powerful than this God, we
hope that you see what we mean here.
But where did this idea come from? Perhaps
this idea came about when man started to make statues and in their fantasies
wished so much that those statues could become real people or animals, or
whatever they had made would come to life. Therefore they started to think that
perhaps God would be able to do that, and thus that idea or wish that God
would be able to make those statues become alive was born, so one day it became
the great God legend in the Bible. Well that is how we see this event of man’s
creation and we hope we got it right.
I said I see what you mean, but even this
might not be enough for a real explanation.
Thanks for trying anyhow.
This is all what was said about religions
at this encounter.
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What we should believe about religions
One may as well ask what we should believe
about religions.
During our religious discussions with our
friends we are having real difficulty in proving that God created life and
everything else in the world; and then, it becomes even worse when we want to
prove the existence of God, because sometimes even God existence is put to the
test, now with this last discussion above that I had with our friends Gino and
Peter it has become even worse. Sometimes I start thinking that perhaps the
atheists might be right when they say that there is no god; and here I may add
something myself and say, if
there is no god then there
is also no justice in this world or the next, since God and religions are the
fundamental rules that in a way guarantees justice; I hope you see what I mean?
There is also the fact that I am not able
to explain to myself everything about life that needs to be explained and
therefore I believe that there should be a god; there must be a god for many
reasons, because for most people if there is no god there is no hope, no
justice or meaning about their lives.
Can you just imagine that there is no god
and people that happen to suffer in this world cannot even think of something
that gives them a tiny bit of hope, what sort of world is this? Would these
people that already find life hard enough despair even more?
I know that we have even called this hub,
Religions could be man made, but this does not mean that there must not be a god
at all in any shape or form. Anyhow there are indeed many reasons to believe
that religions are man made, but also there is the possibility that God really
exists, as we have explained in our hub, God
exists because life exists, you can check it out.
I believe that we have said enough in this
hub, so see you with our next hub, perhaps after I have had another religious
discussion with our religious friends. See you soon.
May God bless us all?
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Man needs God
Religious could be man made
IS TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with, religion about man creation.
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