Welcome to our article,
May God guide and help me to say the right things?
Dear readers, we believe that we need God and religions,
even if we were to believe that there is no god; but that cannot be accepted
from mankind, therefore, we must accept that we need God and religions; this is
obvious from the fact that there are many religions in the world.
Today the main religions are Christianity, Muslim
religion, Hinduism, Buddhism, and other religions, when we look at the several
places of worship that exist in the world, we know that religions are important
to mankind, and therefore they are here to stay. So, in this article, we want
to look at our religious beliefs; because we want to see what we can learn from
them, and if it is possible suggest improvements.
Anyhow, we have called this article, mankind
religious beliefs, because we believe that mankind needs religions and to
believe in God. Anyhow, can it be that religion is an inborn sixth sense within
us? Or we believe in what we have been told to believe from our previous
generation? We do not know; but let us see if we can answer these questions, as we go on writing.
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These are mankind’s religious beliefs.
I believe that, today we are still looking at our religious beliefs, because we want to know how they started, to do that we may have to start looking from the beginning of our life and see what evidence we can find. So, let me tell you how I see this human situation.
When a human being is born he (here he represents
all mankind) knows nothing about religion or anything else, all Mother Nature
has given him is a sixth sense that will help him to survive and thrive, so, he
learns how to drink his milk and how to get his mother attention, so that, he
may feel secure in her arms and survive. If there is within him a sense of
religious belonging nobody knows.
But then, as he grows up, he learns his mother
tongue, and through this language he’ll learn everything that is useful to
survive according to his parents’ knowledge, he will learn religious beliefs
according to his parents’ beliefs. Therefore, if his parents are catholic, he
will be catholic too, if his parents are orthodox, he will be orthodox too, if
his parents are Islamic, he will be Islamic too, if his parents are Buddhist,
he will be Buddhist too, he can belong to any religion. Anyhow, the point is
that he will be believing in the same religion as his parents do, since that is
what is being taught.
Now we want to point out, that notwithstanding all
these different religions, which we can believe in, and all those languages
that we can speak, there are things in common that we all believe; which is
that most of us believe in God and religion or spiritualty; we have also within
ourselves that inborn will to survive which wants us to live forever, which
will stay with us all the time until we die, and perhaps beyond it, in our
afterlife, if there is an afterlife.
So, it would be obvious that the will to survive is
attached to religious beliefs, because religion is the only thing in this world
that can give people hope to live forever.
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Life affects our religious behavior.
Whatever events we experience during our life, it will affect our religious behavior; therefore, notwithstanding this need of religions that we have within, and the will to survive that we carry within us; I believe that when we learn something, this something can change our point of view.
So, during our lives, our religious beliefs will go
up and down according to our needs. Now for clarity sake, let me talk as if we
are talking about a single person; therefore, this single person while he is a
child he is keen to believe and practice religion,
the way that his parents have taught him, because religion gives him a sense of
protection from dangers and evil, like his parents have taught him that God can
protect you if you believe in God, and pray to God when you need help; and it
is for these reasons that he would pray to be protected from God if he feels he
is in danger; of course, there is also a sense of fulfilment, since he believes
that he has done the right things according to his religious beliefs.
But as he becomes older and strong and sure of
himself, then he may think that these beliefs about protection from God are
useless to him, because he feels that he is indestructible like most young
people do, therefore, he believes that he doesn’t need any supernatural power
to help him, this sort of behavior is particularly so in the young males in the
presence of other people. Therefore, if there are a few men who believe in God,
they will not be showing it to their peers, for fear of being ridiculous, even
though they know that deep down in their hearts they believe in God, and they
know that believing is the only way to salvation for them, and their desire to
survive forever.
Therefore, when a man becomes old, he still wants to survive forever, even though he knows that we must die one day, so, the only thing left for him to do is to believe that his soul will survive, in the afterlife of course. And therefore, he goes back to his religious beliefs, he goes back to what his parents have taught him and together with his acquired life knowledge and wisdom he tries to find a way to eternal salvation knowing that religion is the only link which promises us a way to salvation,
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Our religious beliefs.
Mankind’s religious beliefs are those beliefs that
we carry in our heart and mind. If we look at religious history, we will find
that since the beginning of recorded times, there were religious beliefs that
mankind sought even then; in fact, since the very beginning of known times,
therefore, it would be right to assume that we have been searching for a reason
why we are living here on earth, and even now we are still searching for that
same reason, and for the creator of all living things including our lives.
So, some of us believe in creation, and that there
is a creator; but not everybody believes in that. But we are looking for that
life-force that made life possible on earth, even if there is no real creator. So,
our religious beliefs are based on the fact that we want to know about our
existence and from there we start asking questions. So, the first thought that
comes into our mind is that we ask ourselves, what’s the meaning of our life on
earth?
This question brings up many more questions like:
How and when did our forbearers’ lives start? Why are we living here on earth?
Who gave us our lives? Is there a god who gave us our lives? And if God is our
life-giver what’s the meaning for us being here? You see, what we have been
taught by our forebears may not stand up to logical human reasoning, so, we
keep asking questions hoping that one day we will know the answers.
But even today, a large portion of people are not
satisfied with the existing religious explanations. These doubts that we have
may be due to the fact, that we want those religious explanations to run in a
parallel way with our own thinking, therefore, those explanations may not be
right, because they have been written with the knowledge that the writers had
when they wrote them.
Most of us have been led to believe that God, or
the life-force that made life possible on earth resides in heaven, and we call
this life-force God our Father or God Almighty and many other names. But most
of mankind believes in this life-force in a different way, therefore, we are
still searching for consensus about a single universal life force capable of
creating life on earth.
Dear readers, I suppose you have noted that there
are times I refer to God as a life force in the universe, I am doing this
because that could be the only way to get all existing religions together. You
see, a life force that create all existing life on earth can be accepted from everybody;
and this includes also the atheists, we believe that a life force would be
better to have, than my God or your God. I hope you see what I mean.
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Explaining my position as a writer.
Dear reader, I need to explain how I understand the
Bible: because I understand the Bible, in my own personal way. Anyhow, the Bible is the Bible and it is
supposed to be written per God’s inspiration, or at least according to
God’s inspiration at the time it was written the first time? Therefore, I do
not intend to change anything, not even a word.
But there is a problem with mankind religious
beliefs, when we read the Bible today, because one has to keep in mind, that,
the style in which the various writers have written the Bible represents the
times and the places and the needs of those days when the Bible was written;
one needs also to keep in mind the capacity of the writers of that period and
how they could express themselves openly, as they had to do it with what was
the general knowledge of those times, it also had to be written in a way that
the general public of those days could understand what the writers meant.
So, to understand the Bible, the modern readers
should leave behind their greater knowledge of today, they should imagine
themselves to be at the same level of awareness as the writers and the people
of those ancient times were. Then try to compare it with today’s knowledge and
values. Having said that, it does not mean that we should accept what the Bible
says with no reserve, but we should look at ourselves and ask ourselves, if we
had to write the Bible ourselves today what we would have changed? And, what
sorts of theories we would put in place, so that the main religious stream
would accept them? You see, religions need to be written according to the times
that they are going to serve, which takes us to the following explanation.
Some readers believe that only what’s written in the Bible is right, and everything else has got to be wrong: But they are making a great mistake, because they fail to see that the writer of those days could only write what they knew and was common knowledge in those days.
Anyhow, there is the fact, that I believe in my
religious theory, of Reconciliation of the Universe, as if I have been inspired
by God, because it is something that I have been carrying in my soul, my heart
and in my mind, it will be a bit different from what we believe today, but I
believe that it can help people to believe in God and religion in a futuristic
way.
I believe that we have said enough in this article. So, see you next article, God works in mysterious ways.
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May God bless us all.
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