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Re: Why Humans are Religious
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 7:32 am
by PaulSacramento
There is, of course, a plausible reason why humans are religious, why they believe that there is something more to life than simply existing.
Because there is.
It is the supreme height of arrogance to assume that we know all there is to know, that because we can't "see" something that it doesn't exist.
I mean, throughout history there were things that people KNEW didn't exist or were impossible and yet, here we are in the 21st century and so many of that has been proven wrong ( flight, space travel, nuclear energy to name just 3).
Can you imagine what the next 2000 years will bring?
Re: Why Humans are Religious
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 8:45 am
by RickD
Vergil wrote:So what is the reason why people are religious beings
People seek religion and spiritual things, because we are spiritual beings.
Re: Why Humans are Religious
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 8:50 am
by crochet1949
And Why are we spiritual beings?
Re: Why Humans are Religious
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 8:55 am
by Vergil
crochet1949 wrote:And Why are we spiritual beings?
Because we are made by God, milady
Re: Why Humans are Religious
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 9:48 am
by RickD
Vergil wrote:crochet1949 wrote:And Why are we spiritual beings?
Because we are made by God, milady
We are created by God, to have a relationship with Him.
Re: Why Humans are Religious
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:03 pm
by Hortator
RickD wrote:Vergil wrote:crochet1949 wrote:And Why are we spiritual beings?
Because we are made by God, milady
We are created by God, to have a relationship with Him.
I find it kind of passé when people bemoan the purpose of life. Whenever somebody asks me what the purpose of life is, I respond with lightning speed "To form a relationship with God" like you said Rick. A lot of people agree when I put it that way.
That's why I am well pleased to have converted to Christianity during my teens. There exists, at last, a belief system that sufficiently answers life's questions, and not only that, coincides with reality, logic, and every other faculty of thought that makes it nigh-impenetrable.
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." C. S. Lewis
Re: Why Humans are Religious
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 8:05 pm
by crochet1949
Hortator wrote:RickD wrote:Vergil wrote:crochet1949 wrote:And Why are we spiritual beings?
Because we are made by God, milady
We are created by God, to have a relationship with Him.
I find it kind of passé when people bemoan the purpose of life. Whenever somebody asks me what the purpose of life is, I respond with lightning speed "To form a relationship with God" like you said Rick. A lot of people agree when I put it that way.
That's why I am well pleased to have converted to Christianity during my teens. There exists, at last, a belief system that sufficiently answers life's questions, and not only that, coincides with reality, logic, and every other faculty of thought that makes it nigh-impenetrable.
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." C. S. Lewis
Yes, we Are created by God, to have relationship with Him. And How do we have that relationship With Him?
Re: Why Humans are Religious
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 9:26 am
by Vergil
crochet1949 wrote:Hortator wrote:RickD wrote:Vergil wrote:crochet1949 wrote:And Why are we spiritual beings?
Because we are made by God, milady
We are created by God, to have a relationship with Him.
I find it kind of passé when people bemoan the purpose of life. Whenever somebody asks me what the purpose of life is, I respond with lightning speed "To form a relationship with God" like you said Rick. A lot of people agree when I put it that way.
That's why I am well pleased to have converted to Christianity during my teens. There exists, at last, a belief system that sufficiently answers life's questions, and not only that, coincides with reality, logic, and every other faculty of thought that makes it nigh-impenetrable.
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." C. S. Lewis
Yes, we Are created by God, to have relationship with Him. And How do we have that relationship With Him?
By doing what is right and just, for God is a God of Order and Love, Love our neighbors and everything God has given to us and we shall 'tis relationship with our Lord.
Re: Why Humans are Religious
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 1:59 pm
by crochet1949
I should have worded that differently -- how does a person gain a relationship with Him? Meaning - becoming a child of God / son/daughter of God. Salvation.
For instance -- Romans 10:9 - 10 " that is you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."
1 Corinthians 15:1-4 -- the Gospel unto salvation.
Would you agree with That?
Re: Why Humans are Religious
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:13 pm
by Vergil
crochet1949 wrote:I should have worded that differently -- how does a person gain a relationship with Him? Meaning - becoming a child of God / son/daughter of God. Salvation.
For instance -- Romans 10:9 - 10 " that is you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."
1 Corinthians 15:1-4 -- the Gospel unto salvation.
Would you agree with That?
I agree, to enter into a relationship with God, you must wholeheartedly accept the Son. Jesus Christ, who died in the cross so the our sins be forgiven so that we can go back home and bask in the glow of our Father, God.
We are like planets, revolving one center, the sun, without it's illuminating light, the world will freeze to death.
Re: Why Humans are Religious
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 7:08 am
by crochet1949
Yes -- and as a child of God, through salvation, we Will have the desire to do good things For God.
So -- what Does make people religious / spiritual beings. Why not simply 'beings'.
Re: Why Humans are Religious
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 2:21 pm
by Vergil
I don't know milady, forgive me, I can't answer that.
Re: Why Humans are Religious
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 4:01 pm
by crochet1949
It's because God created us that way.
Re: Why Humans are Religious
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 4:02 pm
by crochet1949
It's because God created us that way.
Re: Why Humans are Religious
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2016 5:53 pm
by abelcainsbrother