We need to pray God
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(20) Prayers and discussions
May God guide and
help me say the right religious things?
Dear readers, in
our quest to find the right religious way in these religious issues that we are
writing here, we have to say that every time that we review and edit these
religious writings, there is something new that we could add, because our point
of view has become modified from what is happening around us, and also from
what we have learned from our study of religions, since this writings of
Prayers for reconciliation could be said that it is a study of religions as
well; therefore we who believe in God and are glad to say so, it still might
happen that sometimes we don’t know if we are doing the right religious things,
so, we keep looking for an answer to our problems that we would like to solve.
But, whenever there are doubts in our minds and we happen to ask ourselves
whether we are doing the right thing, when this happens the best thing to do is
to pray God to help us overcome our doubts, so, I am praying God for help and
guidance here under, because we need to pray God to say God things.
Our Father in
heaven, to you I turn God Most High, and I start to pray with all my heart, my
soul and my mind. In the name of The-Father The-Son and The-Holy Spirit I am
praying, hoping that the ever present guiding force of the Holy Spirit on earth
(God) would guide me; So that, I would be able to write my religious writing as
humanly as possible according to God’s will. Father, hear my prayer and guide
me! Amen.
As you can see dear
readers we are praying God, and with prayers in our heart and beliefs in our
minds we (I and my religious friends) are going to try to find a way how to
achieve what seems impossible to achieve today, we say impossible to achieve
because some religious fanatics wage war using religion, which is really
shocking to say the least; their actions also increases the atheists attacks on
religions, as they don’t believe in God and any religions and when we see these
things happen, we have to admit that we cannot blame the atheist completely,
because what they are proposing is the lesser harmful way for humanity. Anyhow
we believe that through discussions with our religious friends and prayers to
God, we might be able to come up with a good suggestion that could solve the
present problem in the future.
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Religious discussions
I have not seen my
religious friends for a while, so, I have written a religious chapter all by
myself, and it is so boring, I hope my readers will not be bored also when they
read it, it is too hard to talk forever all by oneself, you know; even if you
have millions of things to say, so I have asked my friends Mark, Gino and
others to come to a new friendly religious meeting, in the hope that we may
come up with a new strategy, and also find a way how to write religious issues
that do not sound so boring.
Now I am waiting
for my friends to come, while I am getting a few things together, so that we
may have a few nibbles and a drink during or after the meeting; you see I do
not want them to feel pushed too much about these religious matters, as they
don’t seem to volunteer easily to talk seriously about religion, so I want them
to feel that we are here to enjoy ourselves first of all.
At last my friends
have arrived, so I better meet them at the front door, so that they may feel
welcome. I can see five of them, there is Mark, Gino, Don, Bill and another
bloke that I have only seen around sometimes with Gino, so I wonder what type
of person he may be. Anyhow we greeted each other as often friends do and Gino
introduces his friend Peter to me, he seems a decent sort of bloke to me, so I
hope he is also interested in religious talks.
So, we go inside
while chatting about many unimportant things, asking how we feel about this and
that, and what we have been doing lately. We sit down around this table that I
have made ready, and while I offer them a drink they all start nibbling from
whatever was on the table, we were all relaxed and enjoying each other company
for a while. But then Gino seemed to remember the reason why we were there and
asked; Frank, have you written or done anything about those religious beliefs
or feelings that you have towards religion?
Of course I have! I
said. And then I said;
To tell you the
truth I have written a whole chapter all by myself, which I am going to let you
read it, if you want to read it later on. Now I want you to know that for me it
has been very hard to write that religious stuff, just because I would have
felt better if we had had some discussions on those religious subjects I have
written, and then it becomes too monotonous and boring, so I really wish that
we had discussed a few things before I wrote them down, as that would have made
me feel better. Anyhow, now that you are here we may discuss a few religious
issues together.
If I remember right
a while ago we were discussing the very end of the Bible, which seems to forbid
any change of what the Bible says, and therefore any change in religious
beliefs; if one believes that not only the end of the Bible cannot be changed,
but also anything in the Bible cannot be changed. Here I would like to ask,
have you formed any opinion on that subject since then? Or what have you found
out that may be able to help me write my religious theory?
Well; no I haven’t
thought much about that, because of all those things that are happening and
some of those things seem to involve religions; Gino said.
The same here; Mark
said, however I have been thinking about the religious situation of today, so,
I would like to say what I think.
We all agreed to
hear him; and this is what Mark said.
Religious changes ahead
Mark sees changes
ahead.
Let us stop just for a moment to think about nowadays religious matters, as this is very important to know, as it affects a large part of our life religious and otherwise, so, it would be great if we could find some answers to the questions raised from our fried Frank, but as Gino has pointed out, there are also a lot of things happening out there that need to be taken into consideration.
My own personal experience nowadays leads me to think that most things are changing including religious things, perhaps slowly but they are changing, it has got to be that way, since a lot of things have changed especially the last 50 years. Now to make it easier to understand these issues, I would like first to talk about the religions in the past, since this is what we were going to talk about here, and then briefly say something about what is happening today.
When I was a teenager I remember that the Bible was called the Sacred Scripture, and it would be a sin for anyone other than the priest to handle it or read from it. Today the Bible is available to the public and also some other religious books. So, today it is only a matter of time before the public at large learns what is written in the whole Bible and what could be true and good for the people to believe; and what doesn’t make sense and therefore one should not bother about it.
Now let us talk about our present times; as you know, today most household have a computer, which helps in many ways to learn new things at a very fast pace indeed; so, the computer is going to accelerate the changes it is obvious, it is going to be just like other great events that have happened in the past, whenever there is something that radically changes the way of thinking or doing things, great changes follow this first change it is inevitable.
Now, let us take a look at discussion groups on the Internet:
There are perhaps hundreds if not thousands of groups; they are all discussing their own agenda, I don’t want to talk about all those groups, as here we want to talk about religious groups or religious things mostly. As you all know there are some groups which talk only about religion and their own beliefs; there are groups discussing philosophy, which in a way could and would include religion because religion is part of life; there are groups discussing evolution including creation versus evolution; and there is also a large group called, Atheism versus Christianity.
Of all these groups, Atheism versus Christianity is one of the largest groups if not the largest, the atheists don’t believe about God, so they do not believe in any religions and would like to see religions disappear. Of course, because today there are some terrorist news about religious people, these atheist have a strong point to argue against the existence of God.
The Atheists group is formed largely from well educated people, and therefore, when a discussion arises they are able to put a strong case about their non beliefs, so the followers of religious groups, which are usually a large part uneducated, it happens that because of this difference in education they are left in a disadvantaged position. This may give rise to the believers losing faith and moving away from their own original religions.
My views are these: As the Atheists as a whole does not see that if they destroy people beliefs and religions, they are very likely going to create many big future problems in the whole world.
This makes me think
about those differences of opinion, and even though today there are these
terrible news of the killing of innocent people from the Islamic State, and for
these reason the atheist could be attacking religions more often, I believe
that atheist would be making a mistake in believing that the world may be
better off without religions, because looking at the whole situation, I have to
say that God and man need each other, and that is the reason why religions need
to exist. What do you say, do you agree with me?
We all said in a
way or another, of course we agree with you, your reasoning makes things very
clear. Then, I said; I will take note of your speech and if you don’t mind I
will write it down in my religious writings. Now, if I remember right you have
said before, that man needs God, and also that God is hope for those that need
hope most, so, I believe in what you have said.
Gino was also
impressed and wanted to say something himself:
And this is what
Gino said.
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Religious problems ahead
I should say that I
have been thinking about what we said about the end of the Bible, in one of our
meetings; but I have not done anything at all, although every now and then with
my friends here Don, Bill and Peter we have mentioned it, without having any
real deep conversation about the subject.
Look Frank, I
really thought that you would give up about writing this religious theory of
yours; you see it is very hard to do something that other people have tried to
ignore for thousands of years, whether it was through fear or lack of
knowledge. Beside that you and I, including our friends here today, we are not
what you would call highly educated people. I know that we know how to
understand just about anything written, and understand perhaps better than
somebody else, because we apply our own reasoning mind properly when we have
to, we are also able to write something well enough and be understood, but that
may not be good enough to write what you want to try to write, you see, even the
religious writer try hard to avoid any religious changes for fear of being
ridiculed, I hope you see what I mean.
Now, I see that you
look disappointed, Frank!? Since you are keen to write your religious theory,
no matter how much troubles you may be getting yourself into, so, I will try to
learn a bit more about religious things and next time we meet I may be able to
say something more positive.
For the time being
I would suggest that perhaps we may have to start reading the Bible again and
again from the very beginning; and while we read and study the Bible we should
ask ourselves whether the meanings are clear enough and are they in line with
what we have been told they mean? Or if there is another meaning to what we
have been told and what we see at first glance. I think that this is worth to
try; of course we also need to look at what is happening today in the world,
especially those things that may be said to have a link to religions, but we
are going to discuss those things next time, since I need to think about it
before I form my own opinion; that is all I want to say for now about
religions.
This is how this
religious meeting ended, because after Gino speech we just chatted about other
matters that would not and could not interest our readers here.
After we enjoyed
ourselves chatting and having a few drinks my friends departed, so I was left
all by myself to decide what I had to do next, so, I thought I better do what I
was doing before the meeting.
And again I thought
that perhaps a prayer to God could help, and again I prayed God for guidance.
This is all for
this article folks, may God bless us all?
Prayers for
Reconciliation, is to be continued;
Next time with,
WHAT SORT OF GUIDANCE WE NEED FROM GOD.
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