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Not all Churches point toward God! Part 2 of
*** What about people of other religions? Do you think they all are going to Hell? ***
Date: 10/17/2014 8:34:48 PM ( 10 y ) ... viewed 2092 times Not all religions point toward God! part 2
*** English word "religion", the Latin religio, was originally used to mean only "reverence for God or the gods, careful pondering of divine things, piety". ***
Date: 10/19/2014 22:22:38
*** What about people of other religions? Do you think they all are going to Hell? ***
This is a question posed to many Christian Ministers when interviewed :
" Do you think Muslims, Hindus or Jews {or anyone else} are going to Hell? " Such questions cause many distracting divisions about the true message of Christ!
The issue is not not whether people are going to Hell:
but the fact that everyone was separated Spiritually from All Mighty God through the Sin Nature which Adam and Eve allowed Satan to bring into the world in the Garden of Eden!
Therefore all mankind is under a Spiritual Death penalty because of Adam"s & Eve's sin;
" Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world and death through sin - thus death spread to all people, because all sinned. " Romans 5:12
People will not spend eternity in the Outer Darkness {After Hell is dissolved at the end of time} because they were Hindus, Muslim, or any other religious groups (including so called Atheist) rather they do not or did not have any redemptive salvation covenant which delivers them from the eternal death penalty!
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Thus all people need redemption!
Redemption is very different from religion.
Religion is a formed by people in an attempt to reach a god - while Redemption is God Our Heavenly Father reaching down to lost mankind... The way for salvation!
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There are many formed religions:
A religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence. Many religions have narratives, symbols, and sacred histories that are intended to explain the meaning of life and/or to explain the origin of life or the Universe. From their beliefs about the cosmos and human nature, people derive morality, ethics, religious laws or a preferred lifestyle.
According to some estimates, there are roughly 4,200 religions in the world.
Many religions may have organized behaviors, clergy, a definition of what constitutes adherence or membership, holy places, and scriptures. The practice of a religion may also include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration of a deity, gods or goddesses, sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trance, initiations, funerary services, matrimonial services, meditation, prayer, music, art, dance, public service or other aspects of human culture. Religions may also contain mythology.
The word religion is sometimes used interchangeably with faith, belief system or sometimes set of duties; however, religion differs from private belief in that it is "something eminently social".
A global 2012 poll reports that 59% of the world's population is religious, and 36% are not religious, including 13% who are atheists, with a 9 percent decrease in religious belief from 2005. On average, women are more religious than men. Some people follow multiple religions or multiple religious principles at the same time, regardless of whether or not the religious principles they follow traditionally allow for syncretism...
Religion "respect for what is sacred, reverence for the gods," "obligation, the bond between man and the gods" is derived from the Latin religiō, the ultimate origins of which are obscure.
According to the philologist Max Müller, the root of the English word "religion", the Latin religio, was originally used to mean only "reverence for God or the gods, careful pondering of divine things, piety". Many have characterized religions from other cultures around the world, including Egypt, Persia, and India, as having a similar power structure at this point in history.
What is called ancient religion today, they would have only called "law".
Many languages have words that can be translated as "religion", but they may use them in a very different way, and some have no word for religion at all. For example, the Sanskrit word dharma, sometimes translated as "religion", also means law. Throughout classical South Asia, the study of law consisted of concepts such as penance through piety and ceremonial as well as practical traditions. Medieval Japan at first had a similar unlon between "imperial law" and universal or "Buddha law", but these later became independent sources of power.
There is no precise equivalent of "religion" in Hebrew, and Judaism does not distinguish clearly between religious, national, racial, or ethnic identities. One of its central concepts is "halakha", sometimes translated as "law"", which guides religious practice and belief and many aspects of daily life.
The use of other terms, such as obedience to God or Islam are likewise grounded in particular histories and vocabularies.
Many religions are built upon the false premise that you can work your way out of sin and back into God's good graces; which will never work - because it is not possible...
Therefore there had to be a Holy Perfect Plan to redeem mankind!
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So you see people have been attempting to reconnect with God ever since The Garden of Eden... because God has written this desire upon our soul!
Yet He had a plan which had to enable mankind to return by redemption from sin!
This is the story of the Bible and the mission of Christ... He alone came to for-fill and complete this plan of redemption for us...
** If we can just come to believe!
{ more in part 3}
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