RE: What makes a religion?
June 17, 2016 at 4:20 pm
(This post was last modified: June 17, 2016 at 4:20 pm by Mystic.)
(June 17, 2016 at 4:13 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote:Quote:To me that is the religion. It's submission. It's what we embrace and are at peace with.
If that's what religion is then my religion is my own acknowledgement of the futility of fighting against the reality that no one is free to choose what occurs to them.
As stated before, people can say "I think this is the most important thing". At the end, of it, there is a hidden intention that God knows best.
I am saying, we define God as what we worship. But what is worship?,It's valuing something and loving and putting at very high devotion, that everything that is not a god, pales to that level of importance we give it. But in reality, outward idols, people never truly worshipped but by lip service. There inward intention was something else.
The same is true of what we decide our goals are, and what we are trying to achieve. At the end, there is two type of love, holy and unholy, good and evil, and pure and unclean, and which one of these we embrace as who we are to be and value most, is going to destine our path.
When we define religion, we think it's how we relate to are devoted to what we claim we worship. But I'm talking about how in reality, there is the outer definition, but the reality of what is ocurring in our souls. What is occuring in our souls, is simply a choice between the uncleanness and sincerity to God, God's word in us or the unclean word, the blessed tree or the unclean tree.
I'm only sharing my perspective on this issue. I know people won't believe in it, but it's how I perceive this issue.
