Religions could be man made
Welcome to my hub (45) Religions could be
manmade
May God guide and help me to say the right
things in these religious writings? Religions are man made
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Religions are man made
There are reasons to believe that religions
could be man-made, we say that they could be manmade, because we don’t want to
say straight that they are manmade, we need to give the benefit of doubts here,
because we don’t have the proof required to say that they are manmade?
Now, if we assume that religious are manmade,
we have to continue to search for the proof required to establish that. Because
that would be hard to achieve we may have to believe that religions are
manmade, and if we believe that religions are manmade then we need to explain
religions in a better way and in different ways also, we need to explain why
they have been made up first of all, and then why they have been made up the
way that they have been made up.
But that is not all because religions might
not be all made up, you see, we still have to take into account the spiritual
side of our religious beliefs. The spiritual side even though is somehow a bit
different between religions, all religions have a spiritual side, so we have to
assume that there is a spiritual side, and from this spiritual side people have
made up our religious beliefs.
Of course we know that there are some other
reasons that we know already, why they have been made up the way they are today,
as our religious friends were saying about religions in our last few hubs,
there are reasons to believe that we need to explain religions in better and
perhaps in a different way, if we want religions
to continue to serve
humanity, as they have done in the past for thousands of years, we have also to
admit that religions sometimes have done the wrong things, but overall they
have served humanity well.
Let us start to talk about religious books
Dear readers, as we have already seen from
our previous hubs and religious
discussions with our friends, there are many other religions in the world;
therefore we might have to assume that religions could be very likely manmade;
now, this does not mean that God does not exist at all, but it means that we
should not follow blindly all religions and religious leaders who claim
whatever they claim to be true in their religious orders. Therefore, we should
first of all use our common sense and if we see that something does not make
sense, then we should use our logic common sense and really check it out to see
if there is any possibilities that it may or may not be true what is being said.
If we talk about the Bible, perhaps what we
want to prove here for a start is not whether seven days of at the beginning of
the Bible were really seven days or thousands of years; but we also want to
prove that whatever is written in the Bible is the truth, which I am afraid it
might not be so; look at our hub, Flood in the days of Noah, here we may assume that we have proof that the universal
flood was not as universal as we might be lead to believe when we read the
Bible, the flood may indeed have happened, but it did not cover the entire
world.
Therefore, it is time that mankind wakes up
and sees the truth, I know that this is going to hurt many believers, but the
truth is that man wrote the bible, perhaps it was God
inspiration at the
beginning, but then they wrote and re-wrote it until whoever were in possession
of the Bible words could control all believer under them. This is what I
believe myself, but then I might be wrong. So here again I would like to consult
and employ the help of our religious friends to see what they have to say about
this religious dilemma.
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Talking about religious issues
Talking religious issues with our religious
friends
Since we have the intention of continuing
these religious writings, even if they are becoming a bit hard how to write
them and also to meet with our religious friends to talk about religions, I
believe that I may have to change the way of how I collect my religious
discussions and also other issues that come with publishing these writings on
the Internet. So, I am going to talk to our friends about this whenever and
wherever I meet one of them, or several of them.
The other day I went to see Mark and we
talked for a while about these religious issues, in our talks we somehow came
to the conclusion that perhaps we really need to criticise the way the Bible is
being explained to the believers, whenever and wherever we believe that they
have got it wrong, with this view in mind we did not mean that the Bible is/was
wrong, but the way that people use it might be wrong, because of all those double
meanings that occur in the Bible.
Then there is also the facts that when the
Bible was written for the
first time, everything was a lot different from today, therefore the Bible was
written according to those time in order to guide the people of those times,
therefore if the Bible was to be written these days it definitely would have
been written in a different way, we are pretty sure about that.
Now, keeping in mind what we have just said
above, I and Mark believe that it might be necessary to write a few articles to
show what we mean about criticising the Bible, whenever and wherever we believe
there are issues that don’t agree with our own understanding of the Bible, just
to show the public how we see those religious issues.
Here we have to admit that I am really
thinking about this religious issue, because it does worry me a bit, because
most people don’t like anybody that criticise the Bible openly, but anyhow it might
be necessary to do it; not only because we would like to show the world that
some of those meanings are wrong, but also because it is necessary to know they
are wrong and that it is necessary to do something about it.
Now the question arises, where we can find an
important enough religious issue that needs to be reported to the public so to
speak. So that one day people would understand why this theory of,
Reconciliation of the universe has been written. So, I am thinking what the
public or our religious friends could say about all this.
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Religious discussions with friends
Religious discussions with Gino and Peter
A few days after my meeting with Mark, just
by chance I encountered Gino and Peter; this is Peter that said that he believed
in religions very much
like Gino, we have met Peter in one of the last articles, if I remember right
he said that perhaps there must be another logic explanation why the Bible
claims that man was made from plain dirt.
Anyhow after chatting about a few unimportant
but happy events, where people try to have good time and tell a joke or two and
laugh, we ended up again talking about religions, as I asked them whether they
had given any thought about what we were discussing last time we met.
Well they said, we have indeed thought a bit
about it, perhaps not very seriously and we still believe that there must be
another explanation why the Bible says that man was made from plain dirt. Yes
indeed there could not only be just another explanation, but perhaps it is more
likely that there are several explanations, so we could indeed tell you what we
think might have happened in those times, which is just as we all have been
thinking that religions are manmade after all, therefore we must look at the
reasons why man wanted that God would
create man from
plain dirt. While this was going on they seemed as if they were trying hard to
compete with each other, and each one of them was trying to tell me his story
first, as if it was a competition about who told the best story first.
Okay I said, I see that you both want to tell
me this story of how things could have happened then, but take your time and
tell me one story that would or could make sense so to speak and let us try to
speak one at a time, so let us start with a story that both of you believe that
it could have been possible.
Therefore, just for the time being, let us
get started by telling me one of those stories that seems to be a bit more
believable so to speak. Gino as you are older you can start by telling me this
story and Peter can just come in whenever it is appropriate, and thus Gino started
talking.
As we have already said about the creation of
man before, man cannot be created from dirt, because even God has got to be
subject to the laws of nature, because God first and foremost uses the natural
ways to create or achieve anything, we believe that this is God’s way of doing
things.
But the ancient Jews wanted that their God
had to be more powerful than all the other gods put together, so they invented
or gave their God this extra power, and their God was so powerful that could
even create a man from plain dirt.
Here Peter comes in and says do you see what
we mean? They (the Jews) wanted this super god that had so much super powers
that was even able to create a man from dirt.
Can you just imagine how powerful a god must
be since this God could create a real man from plain dirt? He would indeed be
Omnipotent and nothing and no one could we more powerful than this God, we hope
that you see what we mean here.
But where did this idea come from? Perhaps
this idea came about when man started to make statues and in their fantasies
wished so much that those statues could become real people or animals, or
whatever they had made would come to life. Therefore they started to think that
perhaps God would be able to do that, and thus that idea or whish that God
would be able to make those statues become alive was born, so one day it became
the great God legend in the Bible. Well that is how we see this event of man’s
creation and we hope we got it right.
I said I see what you mean, but even this
might not be enough for a real explanation.
Thanks for trying anyhow.
This is all what was said about religions at
this encounter.
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What we should believe about religions
One may as well ask what we should believe about religions.
During our religious discussions with our
friends we are having real difficulty in proving that God created life and
everything else in the world; and then, it becomes even worse when we want to
prove the existence of God, because sometimes even God existence is put to the
test, now with this last discussion above that I had with our friends Gino and
Peter it has become even worse. Sometimes I start thinking that perhaps the
atheists might be right when they say that there is no god; and here I may add
something myself and say, if there
is no god then there is
also no justice in this world or the next, since God and religions are the
fundamental rules that in a way guarantees justice; I hope you see what I mean?
There is also the fact that I am not able to
explain to myself everything about life that needs to be explained and
therefore I believe that there should be a god; there must be a god for many
reasons, because for most people if there is no god there is no hope, no
justice or meaning about their lives.
Can you just imagine that there is no god and
people that happen to suffer in this world cannot even think of something that
gives them a tiny bit of hope, what sort of world is this? Would these people
that already find life hard enough despair even more?
I know that we have even called this hub,
Religions could be manmade, but this does not mean that there must not be a god
at all in any shape or form. Anyhow there are indeed many reasons to believe
that religions are manmade, but also there is the possibility that God really
exists, as we have explained in our hub, God
exists because life exists, you can check it out.
I believe that we have said enough in this
hub, so see you with our next hub, perhaps after I have had another religious
discussion with our religious friends. See you soon.
May God bless us all?
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