Why do we need a religion
or a belief ? What is the purpose of a religion ? Why does everyone has
a belief ? Even if we don't believe or don't have a religion, we still
feel that there maybe something outside, which is all mighty. Even if be
don't believe in God, we still have a belief, to guide us through our life.
Why ? We belief in a religion
is because we need to be good; all religions teaches us to be good. Our
belief guide us how we live our life, and we belief that doing good is
a good boy, and we have this tendency to be good. And still came back to
the same question, why ?
We humans think we are all
mighty, but why only humans have religions and belief ? Why not animals
? Just because we are different ? We are scared ? And still came back to
the same old question, why ?
We humans have invented
so many things and have dominated the world, the technological advancement
can even bring man to Mars. We humans have seen the unseen, we can see
things that are so small and we have started to know them. Even Darwin,
his hypothesis of evolution has influenced us deeply. We have started to
know ourselves; we have lived a better life; we can even see so far and
studied the universe. But, still, we couldn't take off our fear; we couldn't
really say that God doesn't exists; when we in trouble, we still pray for
a divine nature; we still need help from them; Why ?
First, we must think, why
we need a religion ? what is the purpose of it ? we know all religions
teach us to be good. So does this mean we are not good enough ? Yes. We
are imperfect, and we need perfection from it; we have the tendency to
be perfect, to think perfect, which also means we can be perfect, or we
was perfect. If the world is all perfect, religion doesn't exist
at all. Belief doesn't exist at all, and what do we need without a belief
? We abide to God.
So, we must know a religion
is teaching us to be good, and these teaching can lead us to perfection,
for it is set by a mighty being (if you belief in God).
We cannot live according
to our feeling for we are imperfect, how can we know things we do are right
? We cannot say we don't need God; we cannot live with our "self" for we
are imperfect, we need God to guide us, and only those teachings are all
right.
Many people treated religion
a big issue, is that important ? If we think we are saved, and we are sons
of God, we are actually getting to be perfect and we know we going to be
perfect. So, what is the use of having a religion for we already know we
are saved ? Why people scared of the Second Coming of Jesus ? We should
all treat this as a glorious thing, but why we scared, because we treated
our belief as a religion. Actually, God, is more than a religion. God has
a purpose, is to unite with man and make man God.
Some people maybe thinks
they are Christians but they still go to hell, so that's why they need
religion. But actually, we must strive for a thing more than that; we must
prepared, not just for the world, but for the New Jerusalem! Religion is
just for the world and we still need it, but we still need to prepare.
Why people need a belief
? It's because we have a tendency of a needs to be good, we were good before,
but now we have sin, thus we need a belief to make us good, or to make
us feel good. It's a instinct inside us. For example, we think killing is
bad etc. We cannot give away these rules inside us for God makes us.
God did not mentioned about
religion in the bible. Actually, when we say we are from which religion,
we actually dividing, and not uniting. When we say where we are from, we
actually stating we are divided. Actually, God's teachings is universal,
and there is only one true belief from God. So, we need to be universal,
not in a small group. This is the great thing of Christianity, but now
it's just twisted.
To have a religion is just
a start, but having a higher goal, like more than religion, that's the
later part. But later, I will tell you that "good" are not the issue of
choosing a religion or Christianity.
Dennis Yap Tsong Hsih
