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May God guide and help us to say the right thinks?
Dear readers, in our last article we talked about the Bible, being the Hebrew history and a religious book as well. But today we want to talk about The New Testament. We know that these religious issues are complex, and they take a long time to understand, for example today we are working to find a way, how to survive the atheist attacks; how to stop pedophilia in the religious orders and how to stop extremists to use religions for their own violent acts, which is absurd the way that religions are being used from these extremists.
These religious issues happen because of the way
religions have been made in the past, yes religions have been man-made for the
purposes of controlling the people, but today they are not working the way they
are supposed to work; of course, we accept that God and other spiritual
entities need to exist, for this reason we should continue to believe
in God and religions.
Anyhow, because we believe in God, in the last post we have written about the Old Testament, which is the religious book that tells us how this religion was made in the beginning. Anyhow, today we want to find ways that can help religion survive, the atheists and extremist attacks. Because of the actions of these groups, the religious community needs to ask, whether it is wise to believe in religions the way they are today, or we should look if there is a better way. Anyhow, we have to keep in mind that we have talked about the Old Testament, in our last article, so, I have asked Mark to comment on the New Testament. Now, let us see what Mark is going to say.
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Comments on the New Testament.
Dear readers, today I have been asked from Frank to comment on the ‘New Testament’ and the existing religions as I see them today. You know, every one of us sees religions in a different way. Anyhow, last time we talked about the Old Testament, today we will talk why we switched from the Old Testament to the New Testament, and if the New Testament is going to last forever.
If we look back in time, we will see that there
were religions that were practiced for a period of time, and then they were
abandoned for another religion, but religions have always existed,
as far back as any human record can be found, therefore, religions are
necessary to humanity, if they were not necessary, humanity would not have
invented them.
Now you start thinking that I am an atheist. No, I am
not an atheist, but I believe that God exists, and the spiritual world exists,
even if we find them in another dimension.
Now, let us talk about the New Testament, how it
was connected to the Old Testament, and how can connect to future religious
beliefs, since I believe that everything in the world is linked and this
includes religions.
Anyhow, religions are so made that they try to give
the people something back when they follow religions, most of them promises
future benefits even if these benefits are to be found after dead in the
spiritual world, but people see those benefits important and follow religions.
Now, since with the passing of time things change,
the value of the benefit can change, perhaps not the afterlife benefit because
nobody knows if they even exist, since nobody can come back from the dead and
tell us; but other benefit that are more down to earth change.
For this reason, religions need to change to fit
the needs of the people, what I have said may sound unreal, but that is what
happens. Now let us look, why the change occurred from the Old Testament to the
New Testament.
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Explaining why the New Testament.
To explain why the New Testament came about, we must
look at religious history, where we will find that old religions gave way to new
religions, during religious changes that occur from time to time; in the Old
Testament Yahweh is the Hebraic God that the Hebrew people worshipped, and this
worship was renewed by Yahweh freeing
the Israelites from the Egyptian Pharaoh who was keeping them as slaves.
But Yahweh was a tough god to deal with. The reason
why Yahweh was a tough God to deal with, it was because the Israelites were
also tough people to deal with; in other words, I believe that people get the
god that they deserve according to their behavior. Just think what the Hebrew
were doing, when Yahweh was leading them to the Promised Land. People in those
times were very tough and violent; therefore, they needed a tough god and tough
laws to guide them in the right direction, that is the reason why the Old
Testament was violent. This type of religion lasted for a very long time, as it
was needed until things changed.
Now to give a description of what happens next, let
us say that God saw that the people had become tamer, so, God thought to bring
a new religious way, and this is when Our Lord Jesus Christ
came down to earth to show us how to live peacefully on earth with this new
religious way, which today is known as Christianity; so, let us talk about The
New Testament and Christianity.
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The New Testament is about Christianity.
Today, Christianity is the largest religion in the
world, it has several different denominations, they all derive from the change
of religions that our lord Jesus Christ brought, with his teaching in words and
examples. Jesus was able to change the Ten Commandments without losing any of
their meaning, by saying that we should love God our Father and should love our
neighbors as ourselves. This is what I believe he wanted to say, even if he
used different ways or words.
Our Lord Jesus Christ gave us the greatest prayer
that the world has ever known, when he was asked how we should pray our Father
in heaven, Jesus gave us 2000 years ago; The lord’s prayer, which is the prayer
that we pray even today, starting with: Our Father who art in heaven; and so
on. I hope you see what I mean.
So, we know the New Testament is about the life of
Jesus Christ and his religious teachings. Jesus Christ teaching were followed
by many people, so, a new religion was formed, which we call today
Christianity, which is near one third of the world population, these new
religious teachings of Jesus formed the New Testament, which has lasted for
2000 years, and we will be using them in the future.
Here I want to point out that the teaching of Jesus
Christ was about love and humbleness, like you should love your Father God, and
love your neighbor and don’t do anything to others that you would hate if
anyone did it to you. We can add that Jesus Christ taught us to be merciful. So,
Jesus Christ was a loving person and taught only about love. So, the New
Testament is about love your God, and the Old Testament about fear your God.
So, our Lord Jesus Christ was a very loving person,
but let me point out something odd that happens at the end of the Christian
Bible, I find that at the end of the Bible suddenly Jesus Christ personality has
changed suddenly. This is out of place with the rest of Jesus Christ teachings,
this last book is called Revelations, where the end of the existing system is
forecast, we find that the Lord Jesus Christ is behaving like Yahweh in the Old
Testament, therefore, we are suspicious whether it is our Lord Jesus Christ
that dictate Revelation through this angel.
Anyhow, Revelation is written in a dramatic way, it
seems that it has nothing to do with the New Testament and the way that our
lord Jesus Christ was teaching us.
Now, let me say briefly something else,
Christianity achieved two major things, one was that it split the old Jewish
religion, one part of this religion is today Judaism, and they still use most
of the old Bible, in their religious book called the Torah, and the other one
was that the pagan religion came to an end, after a few century, when
Christianity took over under Emperor Constantine. That is all for now, let
somebody else have their say.
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Revelation
discussion.
Our friend Gino speech
Dear readers, I have been asked to say
something, and I am willing to say something, but
I will be as brief as possible.
Anyhow, I believe that I have said something on
this subject a while ago, so, I am continuing to tell you, how I see this last
chapter in the Bible called Revelation. My personal beliefs are that Revelation
is a separate issue from Jesus Christ teaching in New Testament. If we look at
the way it has been written, revelation is another violent episode that the
whole world is going to be subjected to, if and when it happens, therefore, it
is as if we are going back to the Old Testament, where the fear of God was the
main driving force, I am sure that it has been written for that intention in
mind, in other words to control the people through fear. Of course, there must
be another explanation for it, and I am still trying to understand.
But, today the only other thing that I want to
point out, is that the intentions of Jesus Christ and the New Testament, is all
about wanting to guide the believers through love and understanding and not
through fear, therefore, the book of Revelation at the end of the New Testament,
seems to be out of place. I hope you see what I mean.
See you later.
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My comment and conclusion.
Having seen what Mark has said about our Lord Jesus
Christ, who taught love and humbleness, we cannot
avoid becoming suspicious of the reasons why Revelation has been written like
that. It was to change things, for this reason we believe that today religions
need to be modified. When we talk about modifying religious meanings, we are
talking about what is hidden behind those meanings that we see at first sight,
and the reasons why they are like that. Here I may suggest that Revelation has
been written like that, because there was no other way to keep the Christian
people together in those troubled times.
Anyhow, we must assume, that because these
religious problems exist. If we want religions to survive, we must modify them,
and if modifying religions is not enough, then religions need to be changed in
such a way that they have to survive, because man needs God and religions, it
has been so, since the beginning of the world.
Therefore, we want to suggest that a modern
religious way needs to be brought about with a modern method, which has got to
take in all particulars of each and every religion that exist today, once we
have done that we have to try to fit all the pieces together, as we do with a
jigsaw puzzle. In other words, we must try to find the way of how life and
religions complement each other, and there is no difference if one belongs to
another religious group.
We need to show religious people that they can be
together, they can stay together because the life energies of the universe and
the spiritual energies of the universe are together, and we are all connected
to them, also life and spiritual things form a never ending life cycle of the
universe, in fact, God can be described as the life giver; this is what we are
going to put forward in our last part of our religious writings that we call,
Reconciliation of the universe.
Now, if we are able to do that, then with this new theory, it is possible to explain how everything including spiritual things may exist in the universe and how religions can co-exist together in the future to serve humanity, as it has done in the past, I know that this may not be easy, but we must try, it is the only way to find out. You see, we believe that religions need to continue. I think we have said enough in this article, so, see you in our next article, Religions need to continue.
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May God bless us all.
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