Do we need religion in our lives or do we NOT need religion? If we needed religion in our lives, we would only pray and pray to Him, up in the sky.
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It no so important that we need religion. What is more important is we need a God.
Isaiah 48:17 This is what Jehovah says, your Repurchaser, the Holy One of Israel:
“I, Jehovah, am your God,
The One teaching you to benefit yourself,*
The One guiding you in the way you should walk.
18 If only you would pay attention to my commandments!
Then your peace would become just like a river
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
I am a Jehovah's Witness and when I go door to door most people say they have their own religion. Well it must not be working because look at the world. Is it safe and war free as God intended? Are people treated fairly? We do need God but we do not need false religions. Jesus said that a great apostasy would occur after he died. And it did and it still exists. Apostasy means a total desertion of or departure from one's religion, principles, party, cause, etc. After the last Apostle died wicked people infiltrated the Christian congregations. They demanded to be paid to oversee the congregations. They also demanded power and notoriety. They incorporated false pagan teachings into the Christian religion until the true religion that Jesus taught was almost obliterated. Jesus did not each a Trinity, Hellfire or immortal soul. But now if you don't believe in those teachings you are going to burn in hell. The Bible says when you die you know nothing. Ec. 9:5, 6. Death is just the opposite of life. You don't have a soul, you are a soul. Ez. 18:4. How could you burn in hell? Hell is just the grave of mankind. Gen. 3:19 says from dust you are and to dust you will return. Nothing about burning forever.
Religion is a kindergarten that teaches us the ABC of God. Therefore, we all need religion. Imagine if there was no kindergarten, how would we learn maths, science and technology? Therefore religion in life is absolutely necessary; we don't realize the role of religion. It makes us start believing in God, loving God and seeking God. It also helps us to pray, but if we do not understand to whom we pray and what we pray, what we say when we pray, then we don't pray, in fact we bray. We should not just keep on saying things which make no sense, we should go beyond the kindergarten of religion, just like we go beyond school to university. We must go to the university of spirituality, then we will realize the Truth.
Just like a child needs a kindergarten to learn ABC, we need religion to learn the ABC about God. We need religion to introduce us to theology,to prayer, to belief. But just like we leave our kindergarten and go to school and university, we must learn to go beyond religion to the university of spirituality. We don't have to change our religion, but we have to go beyond it. Therefore, religion is the foundation, it's a kindergarten. We definitely need religion to teach us the basics, the meaning of God. If there was no religion then we would become atheists, we would never believe in God. We would just live and die without realizing the truth of life.
Just like a child needs a kindergarten to learn ABC, we need religion to learn the ABC about God. We need religion to introduce us to theology,to prayer, to belief. But just like we leave our kindergarten and go to school and university, we must learn to go beyond religion to the university of spirituality. We don't have to change our religion, but we have to go beyond it. Therefore, religion is the foundation, it's a kindergarten. We definitely need religion to teach us the basics, the meaning of God. If there was no religion then we would become atheists, we would never believe in God. We would just live and die without realizing the truth of life.