Talking about creation

MAN NEEDS GOD. We believe that, there is only one God throughout the universe and God is the universal life force that guides and gives life to the entire universe. Therefore every living thing is part of God life force, since God is the essence of all life in the universe.
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Welcome to our blog, Man needs God

And this post, Creation and creation of mankind

Talking about creation

This is an imaginary way that explains the creation and the creation of mankind according to the Bible. 

Talking about creation

May God guide and help me to say the right things in these religious writings

We all know that as soon as we mention the word creation most of us that live in the western world think about the Bible creation, this is just because we have been taught to believe in this sort of creation since we were young, because our forbears believed and talked about this creation as we do today; but then if we look at other religions and beliefs of the entire world population we realize that not all of us believe in the same creation, therefore since we claim here that we are studying religions and the ways they serve humanity, we have to look also at least to other main religions and how the world was created according to these religions and also the creation of mankind. You see it would be necessary to do that in order to have a better understanding of all religions and what are their differences, starting from the beginning and therefore creation.

Of course there are also the possibilities that all sorts of creations that the religious people put forward don’t exist at all, because it is possible that everything happened by itself as it is claimed in the theory of evolution and other things that the modern scientists claim to be possible to happen.

But here at this point of time, we don’t want to argue about whether we have to believe that creation according to religions is right or evolution is right, we want only to see how most religions explain creation and the creation of mankind. In order to do that we are going to describe a few religions and how they explain their religious creation? So let us start with the Bible creation, since we are part of the western world religious beliefs:

Creation according to the Bible

So let us see what the Bible says by using and navigating this link  www.catholic.org/

In order to describe this creation according to the Bible, we are going to ask a normal layman called Don how he does understand creation according to his religious beliefs.

Okay Don, we are trying to understand the people what they think about creation, so we would like to ask you how you understand creation according to your own religious beliefs?

Don answer

I am a Roman Catholic born and baptised therefore I believe in creation according to the Bible. You know the Bible is supposed to be the word of God, or at least God’s revelations through the prophets; therefore I believe that God created the world in seven days at it is said in the Bible, even if I might have to allow that a day in the Bible might not be one day of twenty four hours as we know it today?

Don can you describe us creation itself please.

As you know; in the beginning God started by creating heaven and earth, at is said that the earth was a formless void and God created them. I know that the Bible might describe that better and make more sense but this is how I see it.

There was darkness over the water on the earth and God said; let there be light and there was light, and God saw that the light was good and divided light from darkness and he called the light day and the darkness night. God also divides the water of the earth and the sky. This is the first day of creation.

After the first day of God’s creation in the Bible, God continues to create the rest of everything else in next four days as we know them and then the sixth day God creates man.

Here Don stopped as if he had said everything that there was to say, so we had to ask Don again. Don please can you continue to describe the creation of man please.

And Don said

Now the creation of man is a bit strange, because there are two descriptions in the Bible, the first description says that God said, ‘Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and then he said let them be masters of everything we have created. Now you listen carefully what the bible says next, because this is a quote that I am quoting from the Bible, Quote: God created man in the image of himself, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them. End of quote.

Then God blessed them, saying to them, ‘be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Be the masters of everything; this is more or less what God said to them. Of course this is not all because there is more to say about man creation, which will be written here-under. Please note that there is some difference how man was created.

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Here we will continue with the second description of the creation of man

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Second description of the creation of man

The second description of the creation of man

When Don finished telling us about the first creation of man, he stopped talking and was wondering whether he should continue, but we encouraged him to continue, so he said:

Look he said, I wonder which one of these two descriptions is right that is why I don’t know how to go on; anyhow let me tell you this second description of how man was created, you see, to me and perhaps to other people also it might seem that it has been added later on, so let me say how I understand it.

In the Bible it says that at the beginning, there was no wild bush or any wild plant growing, because Yahweh God had not sent rain on earth, nor man to till the soil: I think that it is strange that God needed man to till the soil and for this reason God created man, however let me continue this second creation of man.

In those times, water flowed out of the ground and watered the surface of the soil, so we should imagine that the soil was wet all the time, now here I would like to quote what the Bible says; Quote; Yahweh God shaped man from the soil of the ground and blew the breath of life into his nostrils, and man became a living being. End of quote.

Then Yahweh God made a garden with all sorts of plants including the tree of life and the tree of knowledge and put the man he had made in the garden, God also let the man know that he was the master of everything.

And still there is another creation going:

Here Don sighed and said, strange as it may seem this is different from the first creation of man, because in the first creation Yahweh God made man and woman together, but here they are created in a different way.

Now the man being master of everything gave names to all cattle, birds and wild animals, but no helper was found for him.

Here the Bible says that, Yahweh God made the man fall into a deep sleep, He took a rib from the man and made that rib into a woman; that is why we sometime hear say when man describe woman; this one at last is bones of my bones and flesh of my flash! And we call her woman because she was taken from man.

This is how the Bible explains creation and the creation of mankind.

If you want to read more about the Bible here is another link that might be a bit easier to navigate; www.catholic.org/bible/

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Now that we have described creation and the creation of mankind according to the Bible with the help of Don; we are going to move on and describe some other religions about how those religions describe creation, so that we would be able to compare the difference. However we also think that we have said enough in this post, so we will see you in our next post, where we are going to compare the Bible creation to other religions. See you there.

May God bless us all?

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Talking about creation

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Some personal and religious links: 

http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/

http://ifyoubelieveingod.blogspot.com/

http://manneedsgod.co.uk

http://frankmenchise.com

http://diybrickwork.com

http://publicreligiousforum.yolasite.com

Sorting out religions

MAN NEEDS GOD. We believe that, there is only one God throughout the universe and God is the universal life force that guides and gives life to the entire universe. Therefore every living thing is part of God life force, since God is the essence of all life in the universe.
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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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Some personal and religious links: 

http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/

http://ifyoubelieveingod.blogspot.com/

http://manneedsgod.co.uk

http://frankmenchise.com

http://diybrickwork.com

http://publicreligiousforum.yolasite.com

The religious trigger

MAN NEEDS GOD. We believe that, there is only one God throughout the universe and God is the universal life force that guides and gives life to the entire universe. Therefore every living thing is part of God life force, since God is the essence of all life in the universe.
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Welcome to our blog, Man need God
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Here I would like to tell you what was the trigger that has made me write this religious theory; look here under to see the real trigger that made me decide to write this theory.

This is how I remember it, I was watching this event live on TV, when the second plane smashed into the second tower, I will remember it my entire life, these things cannot be forgotten, because it will be locked into my memory as long as I live.

The religious theory trigger

Dear readers, let us explain what was the trigger that motivated me to write these religious writings; the trigger that really set me thinking that we the people of this world needed to do something about these religious issues, or at least have our say, was the terrible event of nine eleven 2001, when New York City and other places in the US became under attack presumably from religious fanatics, at least that was the way that the press reported it and the way we saw it in the beginning, because whoever organized it used religion in such a way that brainwashed those that did that terrible act. Therefore, we believe that behind this attack there is a lot more that just plain religious fanatics attacks, so let us imagine what it could have been?

First of all we have really to try and distinguish what really the attack was; as there are many reasons to believe that it was a deliberate attack to the US mainland, not only in a religious way but in many other ways as well, and it was meant also to tell the western world to mind their own business and do not mingle with their religious and political ways of running their own affairs. But they chose America for their first target just because they hate America more than the rest of the western world, and they were jealous of America being so powerful and sometimes telling them what to do even in their own country.

Perhaps we may have to admit that America sometimes mingles too much in other people business, because they believe that they could or would show these people how to live a better life, because they believe that they are the best at everything, (perhaps they are) but they don’t see that they live in the western world, so their value of how to live a good life is different from the value that some other people give to how to live a good life.

 Therefore a large part of these other people do not see it the same way as the Americans see it and therefore they want to stop America interference, this is how some of us see these happenings today. Now while we are editing this hub there are other terrible things happening in Iraq and we believe that they are the consequences of the war waged to remove Saddam Husain regime, here again the rebels that do most damage are supposed to be Islamic religious extremist. Anyhow here we would like to point out also that whatever we do there are other consequences, therefore the Americans and the western world need to slow down and wait for those that don’t believe in the western civilization, we have to wait as long as it take until those people are ready to copy our ways, if and when they are ready to copy us and if they don’t they don’t.

So as you can see we could go on arguing about the reasons why these terrible things happen and who is at fault, but that is not what we want to do, because here we have started our religious writing, because we want to write our religious theory, so we have to leave behind these arguments between America and other people and go back to write our religious theory, in the hope that we find a way how to stop these terrible happenings at least in a religious way; so let us start to talk about our religious theory.

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Theory based on old beliefs

This new religious theory needs to be based on old beliefs

This new religious theory that we have in mind to write and suggest to the world, because we believe that soon or later it is going to be necessary to do something like this, it needs to be based on the entire world existing religious and spiritual beliefs that we have today, first of all because it is necessary to continue religions the way they are today, so that people will not become upset, since religions for most of us is a way of life that has been passed down from generation to generation, therefore believing in what we have always believed helps us to live a better life in our own ways?

Therefore, this is one of the main reasons that we need to be careful if and when we try to modify religions, as it needs to be done very gradually and in such a way that most if not all the people accept it willingly, and those religious changes should only take place when the public is ready to accept them? We know that some of you are going to say that if most people don’t like to change religious beliefs, why make the effort to change them, or make an effort to suggest changes of religious beliefs, even if what is suggested is only a theory that is still being drawn, in the hope of solving some of the existing problems.

You see, we believe that there are negative forces that might bring religions down, and perhaps even destroy them, as we have tried to explained at the beginning if this article. Now that we have stated the first main problem that we would encounter in modifying religions, let’s see how we would be able to go about to achieve those modifications without upsetting religious people.

First of all, we should really put all the world religious information available together so to speak, of course this will result in a huge amount of religious information that we need to sort out and we will have to sort them out in a way that most of us would accept? Well that it is not going to be easy to say the least and it will also take a very long time.

Here are some links to the religious books shown beside this article for you to check them out some of the main religions.

www.catholic.org/bible/, The Koran -- Simple Search,

The Laws of Manu, www.religionfacts.com/hinduism/beliefs.htm

Once we have collected all religious information together, we should at least learn our own religion very well, so that we would be able to discuss it easily with anyone wanting to discuss our religion; we have also to learn the most important part of all other major religions, and then we should devise a way how to sort all this information down. Now, to sort any religious information one needs to have at least a guideline of the main articles that one should take into consideration, but this is the hardest part, because how can we decide what to take into consideration and what not to take? This is something that needs to be sorted out first even before we start to do anything. So let us see how we could do this sorting out together, in our next post, sorting out religions.

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Man needs God

The religious trigger 

IS TO BE CONTINUED;

Next time with, sorting out religions    

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Some personal and religious links: 

http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/

http://ifyoubelieveingod.blogspot.com/

http://manneedsgod.co.uk

http://frankmenchise.com

http://diybrickwork.com

Our religious theory

MAN NEEDS GOD. We believe that, there is only one God throughout the universe and God is the universal life force that guides and gives life to the entire universe. Therefore every living thing is part of God life force, since God is the essence of all life in the universe.
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Welcome to our blog, Man needs god

And this post, our religious theory

May God guide and help me to write the right things in this post?

Our religious theory

All religions may need to be modified, perhaps we need a religious book that covers all religions. 

There are many religions in the world, and it could be helpful is there was a common link, so that they would be able to find common grounds.  

Our religious theory

Dear readers in a way this post marks the beginning of part three original writings, so, let us describe what we have done already briefly. Now, let us start from the beginning, because this is the beginning of part three of our religious writings, you see we have been studying and writing about religions and we have already said many things in our previous 50 hubs, but even though we have said so much, we seem to have said very little that would really help to solve those problems that the entire world is facing today, as we are going to explain later in this hub under the sub title, the religious theory trigger; here of course we are only trying to have our say about what could be done to solve those problems that seem to come from religion. 

Now let us go back to our religious theory, you see, this religious theory is being written in the belief that we could and would be helping all humanity in a religious way in the future, so that religious attacks as we have seen happening in the world could be avoided, or at least try to detach them from religions; here we need to say that for a long time I was thinking about this religious matter, because I had noted a few things and was not happy with some religious ways; now I was not thinking that these attacks could take place, but I was noting some inconsistence in religions and wondering why the world puts up with all this stuff, and why nobody does anything about it. Some of this stuff we have discussed in our previous hubs, but so far we have not been able to suggest anything that would be useful, so in this part three we are going to write our religious theory that we hope it could be useful at least to separate religions from those things that happen by using a religious cover. 

Therefore, now let us go back to the people and how they use religions, as this was and is the real issue and not religions themselves, because these people that personally did attack were brain washed by their leader in many ways and they also used religions to brainwash them; because of this link between the attackers and religions, today the world looks at this event as if it has come from religion only, but that is not true because no religion really states to go out and kill your fellow man, at the most they will accept killing other people in self defence.

For this reason written above and other reasons that we are going to explain as we go on, we have reasons to believe that for religions to serve humanity in the future, as they have done in the past, they need to be reviewed and perhaps some of their interpretation modified, starting with the western religions, because some of their beliefs or statements seem to be hard to believe nowadays, if we apply the knowledge that we have today.

Now, what we have said above is just one of the main events that sets our minds thinking, how and why we have become so low and try to kill instead of debating the issues, today people seem to want more and more for themselves and they would do anything to achieve that, the world really needs some sort of super guidance that can come only if we believe that we are all children of the same God and we all should be able to live in peace at least in a religious way.

So what can be done, one would like to ask? First of all we have to say again that we need to look more closely at what is happening in the world today, and there we will see that somehow religions fail to guide humanity the way that they are supposed to guide us in a peaceful and just way. But there is more than just what we see at first sight, because there are many other reasons; therefore we say that there are reasons to believe that religions might need to be somehow modified, to meet the need of the people of the future; we believe that there are at least three main reasons why religions may need to be modified, one of these is what we have written above, and here-under we are explaining some of the other reasons.

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The other reasons

Apart what we have said above, the other reasons that make us believe that all religions need to be modified, it is because religions would be able to survive the atheist attacks, who are using those old religious statement that don’t seem to make sense today and they ridicule religious people and other things, they tell us that God does not exist and religions have all been invented by mankind for many reasons.

We know that people have written religious books for some of their own reasons, but that does not mean that God does not exist; therefore, we know that they could be wrong in assuming that God does not exist, because we believe that God must exist, as we have written in our hub, God exists because life exists, you see for us God is life because he has given us life, and also because we the believers see many sign of God existence but the atheists don’t see them.

For many reasons the atheists continue to believe that God does not exist and they will argue with us believers the non existence of God. You see if this atheist attack continues in the future and nothing is done to stop it, it may one day weaken religions in such a way that religions could become perhaps insignificant in the far away future; therefore we have reasons to believe that this would somehow make life harder for some people that need to believe in God and religions, because they feel better if they can do that.

The second reason is that religions should be modified in such a way that would allow Catholic priests to get married if they want to get married, and then anyone of them that practice paedophilia and any other disgusting acts in the clergy should be banned from the clergy altogether and prosecuted according to the laws of the land.

The third most important reason why religions need to be modified, it is to prevent the extremist groups using religions in such violent ways, like they have done in the attack of nine eleven 2001, and then they are able to find an excuse and tell the world that they have done it in the name of God, which is a complete lie, because God would never order to kill his own children. You see we are all God’s children, no matter to what religion or race one may belong or where one is born and come from.

These three reasons are the three most important reasons why we believe that religions need to be modified, and they should be modified in such a way that these things should not happen anymore, or at least have a good chance of preventing them; of course there are many more reasons, but they are less important or they seem to be less important compared to these three?

In our present case while we are writing this part three, this religious theory is also being written to complete this part three of our religious writings of Prayers for reconciliation; here we need to explain that Prayers for reconciliation, part one and part two have been written to get the public ready to accept this part three theory of, Reconciliation of the universe; here is one of the hub links if you would like to read some of it (Prayers for Reconciliation ) and this part three as I said is going to be called Reconciliation of the universe, because here is where we are going to write our theory that might help to change religious thinking and religious things in such a way that reconciliation of all religions could become possible in the future by using this new way; we know that this is only a religious theory and there is no certainty that it is going to work, but we need to start form somewhere.

As you already know these religious writings are our study of religions and how religions serve humanity, and also how religions could serve humanity in the future; therefore, in this religious theory we would be trying hard to suggest a new way that could be able to overcome most of today religious problems and this could be a achieved by modifying existing religions, and also the way that we see the spiritual forces of the universe, since the spiritual forces are definitely part of all religions.

This religious theory that we are writing is only our suggestion of how these religious problems could be overcome in the future, because there could be many other ways to explore; but somehow we are pushed to do something now, as you will be able to see in our next post, the religious theory trigger.

May God help and guide us to achieve that?

May God bless us all?

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Man needs God

Our religious theory 

IS TO BE CONTINUED;

Next time with, the religious theory trigger    

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Some personal and religious links: 

http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/

http://ifyoubelieveingod.blogspot.com/

http://manneedsgod.co.uk

http://frankmenchise.com

http://diybrickwork.com

Religions need to continue

MAN NEEDS GOD. We believe that, there is only one God throughout the universe and God is the universal life force that guides and gives life to the entire universe. Therefore every living thing is part of God life force, since God is the essence of all life in the universe.
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Jupiter King of the pagan gods, son of Saturn, Saturn was king of the gods before Jupiter. The Roman used to have a feast called saturnalia, it is believed that saturnalia feast became our Christmas feast

Religions need to continue

Welcome to our blog, man needs God

And this post, religions, Religions need to continue.

May God help me write the right religious things?

Dear readers, as we know and have already said many times before, man has always believed in God/gods and all sort of religions, it is an inborn need that we feel within us, it has been like this since the beginning of the world; here is one of our own articles, Man needs God, if you would like to check it out; there are also many other ways to check it out by reading history books or old classic books, where they will show you that man has believed in many gods and religions, therefore religions need to continue even if today religions need to be modified to achieve that, so that man can believe what man wants to believe and be happy for his own well being.

But now let us take a short break from these religious talks and see what is happening around the world today. Because next month will be Christmas time again, so, everybody and everything seems to remind us of the coming Christmas festivities for 2014 and the season greetings that we usually send.

Now that I have mentioned my season greeting and wishes, I can tell you what’s on my mind these days and then go back to talk about religions, since even these Christmas feasts are, or seem to be religious, even if at their beginning they were not religious and if they were religious, they were set in a very strange way.

Today, as we all know or led to believe Christmas is a religious happening and therefore is a religious feast, so how would people react if there were no more Christmas?

This is also one of the reasons why religions need to continue as they are, you see people like feasts, they like to belong in something that binds them together, it has always been so since the beginning of recorded times, therefore there are times when it does not matter whether the feast is religious or otherwise, but because this site is religious we have to look about it in a religious way.

I am saying this because, today religious orders could be under threat from atheists who do not believe in God and religions, the extremist groups who pretend to do God’s will when they do harm to their fellow man, and science because they want to prove the existence of God when they know very well that it is impossible to do, because God and the spiritual forces belong to another dimension, now since science cannot see or prove the existence of another dimension, they assume that God does not exist.

We believe that it is necessary for the scientists first to prove that there is no other dimension, before they assume that God does not exist. Having said that, now let us see if we can assume what the people would do if there was no more Christmas; do you think that Christmas will disappear and nobody will care about it? Or do you think that Christmas will be missed by the people? So, let us see what could be the origin of this present feast of Christmas, before it became a religious feast that we celebrate today.

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What are the origin of Christmas

Today Christmas may mean different things to different people, therefore every one of us as their own ways to demonstrate our feelings for Christmas, sometimes even with a song of our own; look at this link to see what I mean: The Christmas Song (Jayesslee cover)

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Now, I want to say that today when we are talking about Christmas one cannot help to wonder, what are the origin of our present Christmas feast, we all know and perhaps most of us believe that Christmas is the birthday of our lord Jesus Christ, but if or when we work it out from the scriptures it is not right, some people say that Jesus Christ birthday is in October, but in this case it does not matter when it is really, because it has been changed to coincide with another ancient feast, therefore the origin of our Christmas feast is not the birthday of our lord, because it was once an old Roman feast called Saturnalia. This feast name came from the god Saturn who was once the ruler of all gods and everything on earth and ruled during the Golden Age. Saturn was the son of another two gods, his father was called Heaven and his mother was called earth, well not exactly like that but that is the equivalent in English. I could say a lot more about god and goddesses, but here we are talking about the origin of Christmas, so we are going to postpone that and write about gods and goddesses in another post in order to explain a bit more about the pagan religion. Anyhow, as we have already said, Saturn ruled during the Golden Age, when there was abundance of food and everything else for the human race; therefore this might have been one of the reasons why the Romans had Saturnalia, which was a feast of plenty and everything else like a carnival. In the Roman tradition, the feast of Saturnalia was held during the winter solstice in memory of the Golden Age of man when Saturn was said to have ruled earth.

So, as you can see or guess the winter solstice is when the days in the Northern Hemisphere are very short and the ancient people thought that their sun god was abandoning them, so, they had to do something religiously to get their sun god back, therefore the winter solstice feast is also the feast of the rebirth of the sun, which many religions have used to start a new sun year going. Here we are afraid to say that there were some religions that used human sacrifices so that their sun god would return to shine and bring life back. Let us just imagine a human being was put to death in the hope of pleasing their god, so that the rest of their community could enjoy another year of normal life.

I know that today all this seems absurd that people were so ignorant then, but it was so or at least it is believed to be so; Now, just to give you some proof of what I am saying, I want to point out that even in the Bible these sacrifices are mentioned, but Yahweh being a real spiritual God knew that human sacrifice was not to happen, so he ordered animal sacrifice when they the Jews had to have a religious service. There is a lot more that could be said about religions and sacrifices, but it does not seem right to mention these cruel things of the past here, since we are not against the existence of religions; in fact we are in favour of religions, see the beginning of this post, where we have said that religions need to continue and perhaps stay mostly as they are, in order to keep religious people happy.

Here we would like to add something else that I was going to write in these religious writings whenever I had the chance to write it, and it is the following:

Just let us discuss briefly the human or animal sacrifice of the old religions and try to see the signs that they have left even today. We know that some old religions believed that the gods needed a real sacrifice every now and then, in those times the sun was thought to be also a god that gave life to every living thing, so they sacrificed also to the sun and other gods as well, in order to keep those god happy and favourable to the rest of the community. Of course this outrageous practice to keep the gods happy is not used anymore today, but even today this is being perpetuated in our religious service, but it is perpetuated only in words and in our spiritual beliefs and no real sacrifice takes place. These human sacrifices were changed from Yahweh God of the Israelite, who replaced the human sacrifice with the animal sacrifice, and later on this was changed again, If you have attended any Christian religious service especially the Roman Catholic Church, at the most important part of the mass the priest says, This is the lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world; this means that Our Lord Jesus Christ has made the last sacrifice for everybody and no other sacrifice is required, because he took away all the sins of the world. This changing of religious things means that religions could be changed and religions will change again even if it takes a long time. 

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What could be done?

We know that you would like to ask what we could do. The answer to that is that we believe that somehow we need to keep religions and religious feast as they are today, so that people can continue to enjoy what they know. We need only to look at Christmas to see that it took a long time for the change to take place from Saturnalia to Christmas, and it happened just because people like festivities and get together especially if they are fun like the Saturnalia. You see, people don’t accept changes easily and if any changes are going to be achieved it must be done gradually and in such a way that would accommodate everybody.

Now, let us go back to the beginning of this article, where we state that religions need to continue, therefore the atheists, the scientists and the extremist groups need to rethink their strategies, because religions are not going to disappear or change quickly, the only way that religion can change at all is that we might be able to modify religions slowly; so this is what we have in mind to suggest, we would like to suggest a way of how we can be able to get everybody willing to embrace a super religion that is able to connect all existing religions together, this is a theory about a super religion that would set every existing religion one step lower than the new super religion that we suggest and thus could link all religion together. We need to say that part of this super religion theory has already been written in our article pages, but it needs to be finished and then connected and explained more clearly. This is a link of part of our writings;

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This religious theory that we are talking about is one of the several theories that could help achieve religious reconciliation; so, we have called it Reconciliation of the Universe, not because it will really be able to achieve universal reconciliation, but because it aims to achieve that. Now that we have said it, we need to continue to work on it so that we would be able to connect everything that needs to be connected in order to work properly.

Dear readers, we hope you will follow our religious writings of Reconciliation of the Universe, which is part three of all our religious writings that at the beginning we called Prayers for reconciliation. You see what we have written in part one and part two are only explanations and the reasons why we need to come up with this new religious theory. In part three we will try to set everything up in such a way that this super religion could be created if people would be willing to create it. Therefore we will write how this theory could work, because, as we said religions need to continue, it is the only way for humanity to enjoy life as we have been taught to enjoy. See you soon in part three, Reconciliation of the universe.

May God bless us all?

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Man needs God

Religions need to continue  

IS TO BE CONTINUED;

Next time with part three, Reconciliation of the universe  

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Some personal and religious links: 

http://menfranco-re.blogspot.com/

http://ifyoubelieveingod.blogspot.com/

http://manneedsgod.co.uk

http://frankmenchise.com

http://diybrickwork.com

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