Rejecting Two Religious Teachings

My discovery of a scientific proof of God increases our knowledge of a monotheistic God. However, this modern knowledge causes one to reject some current religious teachings. Here, I identify two religious teachings that are inconsistent with our new and modern knowledge of a monotheistic God.

The first religious teaching is the belief that the universe is apocalyptic and comes to an end. In theology, this belief is known as eschatology and is concerned with the final events of the history of the world or of mankind. Associated with this belief is the belief in Heaven and Hell, which is inconsistent with a modern motheistic God. Also, associated with this belief is the belief that we should fear God. This is inconsistent with the love of a modern monotheistic God. I conclude that the origins of the associated belief in fear was developed by ancient religious leaders who, after the death of Jesus Christ, became faith builders and were thus ‘seekers of followers.’ Yet, the end of the world and the end of mankind are not taught by Jesus anywhere in the New Testament. Jesus actually teaches that the universe has no end at John 14:12. There, he says, "we will do the work He did and do greater work than He did." This belief is also not taught anywhere in the Gospel of Thomas, which was found only in 1945. The Gospel of Thomas does not speak of a 'revealed religion' ( or a unity) between the Old Testament and New Testament. So, the revealed religion taught by today's Christians might be false. I do not find this revealed religion in the words of Jesus Christ. Further, in Bk. I, Ch.8 of his book ‘On Learned Ignorance,’ Nicholas of Cusa shows us that the Christian Trinity, which is the scientific and necessary structure of God’s creation, is eternal. A universe that ends is totally inconsistent with the eternity of the Christian Trinity. This inconsistent religious teaching is thus a contradiction in man’s mind and might be the cause of psychological problems.

The second religious teaching is the belief that God inspired the scribes of scriptures, for instance, the Old Testament. On the belief that God inspired scribes, we know that God’s language is not discursive. Only our languages are discursive. So, God did not dictate the discursive words found in the Old Testament. An associated belief is the religious teaching that God is ‘in’ us. The statement, God is in us, misuses the word ‘in.’ The word ‘in’ means the content of things or what is ‘in’ a thing. We do not know what constitutes God. Thus, we do not know what is ‘in’ God. Thus, we cannot say that God is ‘in’ us.

Since all things in the universe are ‘containers,’ the ‘in’ of the universe is not merely the sum of all the containers. The universe must be more than the sum of its containers. The term, more than, can be explained with nonphysical things (or spirits) we call ‘relations. If relations are accepted, the ‘in’ of the universe means ‘all things and their relations.’

By rejecting these two religious teachings, psychological problems might develop in those people who have cast these beliefs into concrete in their MINDSETS. Accepting these rejections is like stopping drug use or smoking. If a psychological problem develops, think about positive ideas such as reincarnation (life after death).