2007-08-18 15:40:40 · 19 answers · asked by Eric Inri 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The purpose of religion is to keep religion going.
2007-08-18 15:46:09 · answer #1 · answered by nondescript 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It is for mankind to seek the one true God and continue living.
Acts 17:24-31 states: The God that made the world and all the things in it, being, as this One is, Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in handmade temples, 25Â neither is he attended to by human hands as if he needed anything, because he himself gives to all [persons] life and breath and all things. 26Â And he made out of one [man] every nation of men, to dwell upon the entire surface of the earth, and he decreed the appointed times and the set limits of the dwelling of [men], 27Â for them to seek God, if they might grope for him and really find him, although, in fact, he is not far off from each one of us. 28Â For by him we have life and move and exist, even as certain ones of the poets among YOU have said, ‘For we are also his progeny.’
29Â “Seeing, therefore, that we are the progeny of God, we ought not to imagine that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, like something sculptured by the art and contrivance of man. 30Â True, God has overlooked the times of such ignorance, yet now he is telling mankind that they should all everywhere repent. 31Â Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in that he has resurrected him from the dead.”
2007-08-19 00:56:16 · answer #2 · answered by My2Cents 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything that comes into being has a complementary "something" that's a shadow of the thing itself. For spirituality it is religion.
Just as magick creates ritual, or logic creates superstition.
It is the easy answer that avoids experience for deception.
It is the danger God recognized when asked for his name.
Experience is truth. Experience your lives.
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2007-08-18 22:51:28 · answer #3 · answered by gnosticv 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
To keep the people in line. Karl Marx described religion as an opiate of the people. I think he was right. Can't understand something - the answer is right here in this book or this "priest" can explain it to you.
2007-08-18 22:48:14 · answer #4 · answered by Dawn 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I don't know the purpose of religion.But GOD give's us a way of life that is never ending .If that's what you chose. PEACE TO YOU
2007-08-18 23:07:04 · answer #5 · answered by grace 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To control others for some and for others to gather together peoples of like mind.
2007-08-18 22:57:46 · answer #6 · answered by Praire Crone 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the same as the purpose to anything,
to have choices,
experiences,
to live.
2007-08-18 22:50:57 · answer #7 · answered by The French Connection 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is actually to draw you AWAY from God, and to worship other 'gods'. RELIGION is the curse that God put throughout the earth. WHY? To challenge us to 'seek His face FIRST', having no other 'gods' before HIM.
There are a lot of 'trees' in the garden, but only two, the tree of good and evil, and the tree of life, which bear GOOD fruit.
2007-08-18 22:48:50 · answer #8 · answered by witnessnbr1 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋
This! A video I made with my bandhttp://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=11396204
2007-08-18 22:47:13 · answer #9 · answered by ya-who 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Mosaic law was a tutor leading to Christ.
So too, the True Christan religion is one that will lead to ever lasting life on a paradise on earth.
2007-08-18 22:46:35 · answer #10 · answered by Here I Am 7 · 3⤊ 5⤋