Delighting in Falsehood, Travelling away from the truth and possibly in lack of support?

Question

This contains non-Christian elements.

Does studying, reflecting and mediating on religions (man's effort to become moral and therefore be 'saved') and using examples of individuals (as examples to live up to in life) make me a boastful, proud, distorter and a liar.

I was thinking to a older posting on this website, as the attension came:
1: to my approach in study (false examples-explained later)
2: distortion or avoidance or manipulating of the truth and reality (assumptions, ideas, thoughts and adding personal touches) and
3:poor movement to exterminate bias in the material under study (not looking into everything fully).

I believe in soemthing called the 'Ultimate Reality' that is the truth unbeknown to humanity, and all Earthly religions(esp of non Christains) are attempts by man to abide less to a law (in society) but to grow spiritually and assit man for the better. This reality may be the Christian reality, but I am not sure.

Wells it is simple, i have even borught a dictionary on religions.Anyone happy to help?

well, my quetsion is what do your respective religions viewpoints as to my studies. For example in the bible it does state that men study the bible in the vain attempt to be saved.

religious beliefs are merely a culture, they are based on a foundation. religion can be about concepts,structure,order,practises and symbols. A christian acts like a christian and likewise for a muslim.

Answer 1

WHAT IS YOUR QUESTION???????????

Answer 2

I can give you some imput as a Christian minister. Other answerers can supply you with other data in which you might be able to take all of what we supply you and formulate a conclusion.

The is knowledge that is unknowable to humans. We are finite on this earth with finite bodies and brains and intellect. The knowledge that God possesses is way beyond what we are capable of handling. This is the way that God designed us so that we must look to him for everything. If we really understood life and how all life functions, then we would be gods and would on demand produce all that we required. In short, we would not need God. We would be self-sustaining, never to know death. As such, we would become spiritually retarded.

Because we die we have the ability to grow spiritually, the ability to transcend this limited world into the spiritual realm where we are not bound by all the restrictions of earthly existence. This does not mean that upon physical death that we become gods, for spiritual growth implies moving from a lesser position to a greater position, but still remaining less than the untimate position, which is God.

Religion, in its correct definition, is self righteousness, that is man's attempt to get at God by his own devices. Christianity is not a religion, at least not in the sense that Jesus has intended it to be. It is a personal relationship with God, in which the believer by-passes an established priesthood to gain direct access to God through prayer, meditation and contemplation. Salvation is the process by which a person is cleansed the taint of his sin nature and is able to fellowship with God. It is a covering for sin, not the elimination of the sin nature. When a believer talks about being covered in the blood of Jesus, this is what his are referring to.

We must all study, reflect and meditate in order to grow, and that is what God wants from us---to grow. Life on earth represents our infantcy. When we depart from this place in glory we begin another phase of our growth. I cannot tell you what the ultimate state of the human being will be---no one can. Because God is who he is that state must be something so glorious that it is beyond our imagination to conceive it.

The only truth that can be sought that is 100% reliable 100% of the time is the truth that is God, for God is all truth. All else that does not agree with God is a lie, though it may be tangible to our senses. But tangibility implies a tendacy towards the corruptable and the temperal, that which will not last. God is everlasting. Therefore, investigate that which is everlasting and ignore that which will fall apart. It is not neceesary to know everything, just to know the right things.

Answer 3

Gee i don't know since your comment is non-specific. Study of religions well as a christian, i believe in the bible, since it has proved itself accurate in its accounts of history, and cultures, and civilizations, and it has proved itself accurate in prophecy, both in ancient times and in our time, how can a person dismiss it. Including the medical and scientific statements and law, or now called protocols in the medical profession are true and sound and beneficial.

The study of other religions is only a study of false religion and like many in the christian religion or Christendom which have distorted what the Bible says, and has mixed or included interfaith of other traditions to get more persons in their churches. I would agree with your conclusion.


But the only reality is what the Bible explains.

Answer 4

All religious beliefs I have ever heard have absolutely no basis. Yours included.
Unless its based on evidence, its made up. Simple as that.