What is Religion?

Question

Religion refers to ones primary world view and how it dictates ones thoughts and actions,a set of common beliefs and practices held by a group of people.Religion is a culture,ideas,values,or experiences,Religion doesnt refer to belief in "God" Now reason for this is so many people here are so wrapped up in what religion is the true one,when religion doesnt matter,there is so many religions,But there is only one God.It is a personal relationship that you have with God that matters.Denomination doesnt matter,there will be all denominations in heaven.Its weather you believe in God and except Him as your personal saviour that matters.satan has everyone bashing each other over religion,to confuse you.God is not the author of confussion.So quit looking for the right religion and look for God He is the only one that matters.By the way Im not looking for an argument I just see a lot of confused people on here about religion.God Bless you all!

Answer 1

I think today people have got this picture in there heads of a person at the old grand piano singing How Great thou Art. I say to people don't mock it until you have been there. How ever I think that theres a thin line between righteous and religious meaning that some go a little overboard. I believe that God loves us all and we should honor that but keep some sort of sanity otherwise we are caught up in religious ways and this is a scare off tactic to others who are in the dark. The purpose of religion is to believe and have faith that a power greater than us will store us to sanity. Faith is all we have. Just a little from me, I do believe by the way there is only one God. Amen!

Answer 2

Religion:- Religion is a process of ideals and worships which entails a code of ethics and a philosophy of lifestyles. There are many faiths on this planet at present. Some of those religions are of latest beginning however such a lot of them are very historical. In reality we all know from historical past that guy has regularly had a faith. Even the primitive guys dwelling in caves or jungles had a few style of faith. The ideas and rituals in guy's faith have CONTINUALLY advanced and end up extra rational and complex as time went on. The primitive religions of the Cave Man and the Bush Man gave upward thrust to the state-of-the-art religions of the beyond 3 thousand years. Today, the main religions of the sector comprise: World Religion ----- Originated in Zoroastrianism ----- Iran Confucianism ----- China Hinduism ------ India Taoism ------ China Jainism ------ India Judaism ------ Neat East Christianity ------ Near East Islam ------ Near East Buddhism ------- India Shinto ------- Japan These are the satisfactory religions of the sector which don't seem to be most effective liable for all our amassed wealth of knowledge, philosophy, ethics, and social and ethical codes, however have prompted the tradition, the language and the ethical attitudes of close to each PERSON dwelling at present. Difference among Religious and Non Religious Peoples. a million. The devout persons think in anything whilst the others don't. two. The devout persons participate in detailed acts of worship whilst the others don't. three. The devout persons appear to comply with a detailed code for his or her social and ethical behaviour whilst the others don't. four. The devout persons discover a rationale of lifestyles and feature a certain philosophy in the direction of it, whilst the others don't.

Answer 3

Religion is a type of organized business which deals with the use of Deity to control people's minds and bodies by promising them spiritual satisfaction in exchange for monetary contribution.

Answer 4

One God, One Religion

1 If we really wish to surrender ourselves to God, we have to settle in our mind an important problem regarding religion. Is it God's will that there are so many religions in the world? Is he content to see people trying to worship him in many different organizations, with different beliefs, religious rituals and even different moral standards?

2 The answer has to be No. God is a God of harmony. But the different religions of mankind are not in harmony with each other. They fight one another, persecute one another and contradict one another. Imagine that you were lost, and you asked four different people how you could get home. What would you think, if one told you to travel north, another said to travel south, the third said you had to go eastward, and the fourth, westward, in order to arrive back home? Could they all be right? Of course not. And similarly, all the religions of this world cannot be right, either, when they give contradictory instructions as to what we should do to submit to God.

3 It is interesting, however, that the three main religions mentioned earlier, although they disagree about many things, all agree on one point: there is only one God. True, Christendom confuses this with her doctrine of the Trinity, teaching that there is one God made up of three persons. But the Bible, which Christendom accepts as holy, does not teach the Trinity. The Bible teaches the oneness of God.

4 Thus it is that in the Hebrew Bible we read: "Listen, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah." (Deuteronomy 6:4) In the Christian Scriptures we read: "There is . . . one God and Father [Life-Giver or Creator] of all persons, who is over all and through all and in all." (Ephesians 4:4, 6) In the Qur´an (also spelled Koran), it is written in the Unity (Al-Ikhlas) chapter, in the first verse: "Say: Allah is One."

5 However, these three religions all describe God differently. It is as if you wished to learn about a certain important official, and you asked three different neighbors what kind of man he was. One said he was tall and blond, the other said he was small and dark, and the third one said he was of average height and gray-haired. While all your three neighbors would thus show that they believed this official existed, it would be obvious that at least two of them did not really know him personally.

6 In the same way, when different religions describe God in contradictory ways, we have to ask ourselves: 'Which one is true, and which ones are mistaken?' If we really wish to submit ourselves to God, we will be anxious to find the answer to that question. The most important subject we can ever study is the truth about God.

[Footnotes]

All quotations from the Qur´an in this booklet are taken from the translation by N. J. Dawood, published by Penguin Classics in 1956.

[Study Questions]

1, 2. Why is it not logical that the many contradictory religions in the world could all lead us to the same God?

3. What is one point on which three of the major religions of the world agree?

4. How do the holy writings of each of these three religions demonstrate this fact?

5, 6. Why is it not possible that we could come to know the true God equally well through all three of these religions?

Answer 5

Religion simply put is mans efforts to reach up to God. Christianity on the other hand is God reaching down to mankind.

Answer 6

So true, yet religion has become so complicated that to put it in that simple terms seems, well... almost too simple. These fights between religions is how wars begin.

Answer 7

So true! Totally agree! It is a personal relationship and no one can tell you different.

Spiritualist

Answer 8

Religion is man made....

Answer 9

well... i don't really have an argument to that. and i agree with you....