anything related. and merry christmas to everyone of you that will have some dumb comment on this question. your all living lies.
2007-12-25 11:22:34 · 13 answers · asked by cl3071700 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
All religions to some degree speak of the universe. Judaism, for example, opens its Scriptures with the Creation event. Above all things, above all the other information contained in the writings following, this was deemed important enough to be a starting point. The focus, more than anything else is on the Creation.
Many native religions center their spiritual life around a creation story. Creation, if logic follows means all things including the universe. Now it can be assumed that the ancients had no clue to a fourteen billion light-year expanse of a universe, but their rudimentary understanding of nature and their world (ie, their universe or all they knew that existed) comes through.
2007-12-25 11:29:32 · answer #1 · answered by fierce beard 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deism! Deism grew out of the period we call The Enlightenment, the 17th century. During that time people made great scientific discoveries and the philosophy changed about a lot of things, people just thought differently about them.
Out of this came a new religion, some say it is a branch of Christianity, some that it isn't. Deists believed that God created the universe and 'natural law', and that all you could learn about him was through studying his creation, the universe. They didn't believe in 'revelations', for instance they didn't believe the Bible was God's revelation to believers. They didn't believe God intervened in the universe, so they didn't believe in miracles, but that natural law was unbreakable.
In fact, they believed that God had built the universe, set it running, and stepped back to watch, and had not touched it since.
They used the analogy of two clock towers. Suppose there is a town with two clock towers and both keep perfect time. One clock tower, the clockmaker lives in the tower and maintains the clock perfectly so it continues to keep perfect time. The other tower, the clockmaker got the clock running years ago, then sealed up the tower and left, and has never been seen since. But the clock was made so well it continues to keep perfect time.
Now which of those clockmakers would you believe is the better clockmaker? The second one, of course. Since God is perfect, that's how it must be with the universe.
A belief in permanent, immutable natural law led these guys into science, as the only way to learn about God. Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were the leading Deist thinkers in the US, and all their inventions and other ideas came out of this idea, that all we know is what we can observe. The mention of 'The Creator' and of 'nature and nature's God' in the Declaration of Indpendence is meant this way--that we know man loves freedom because it is self-evident, not scriptural.
Merry Christmas to you too! If it's still Christmas where you are (it is here).
2007-12-25 11:34:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The universe is a limited space of matter and, for the majority, idiots with cars. Anybody with a religion based on it will likely have already been demolished by a wrecking ball. Don't bother.
2007-12-25 11:27:04 · answer #3 · answered by mradrz4evr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some religions calim to be universal in the sense that there God is omnipotent.
If you are looking for a religion that bases its beliefs on the actual universe itself then maybe scientology is something to look at.
2007-12-25 11:36:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christianity is based on a belief in God, the creator of the universe. In this way, Christianity is based on the universe. Christmas commemorates the fact that his son, Jesus, was inserted into the fray.
Merry Christmas to you, too!
2007-12-25 11:31:55 · answer #5 · answered by onebriiguy 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't think so but you can check out www.adherents.com. It has a list of the worlds religions both current and extinct. I'm sure it doesn't have all of them as there are literally thousands. You can read about them individually and see if you like one that matches your personal beliefs.
2007-12-25 11:29:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aren't all religions based on the universe? Seriously, what is religion about if not all of reality?
2007-12-25 11:49:56 · answer #7 · answered by Nightwind 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Uh, no lies, only truth, and in fact there are codes in the bible talking about astrology, especially the apocrypha, but you can live your lies.
2007-12-25 11:39:18 · answer #8 · answered by Charles E 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God created it - the universe. I believe in God and I do not live a lie. The devil is a liar and the father of lies.
2007-12-25 11:33:36 · answer #9 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
way to show the love...
Pantheism is the view that everything is of an all-encompassing immanent abstract God; or that the Universe, or nature, and God are equivalent
2007-12-25 11:27:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋