Remaking America by George Shollenberger, Idea XXXXXXVIII (Reforming the Field of Religion, VII)
In order to understand religions, one must become a dialectician, a student of Plato, and a person who recognizes opposed concepts. For example, such concepts include Yin and Yang (found in the Far East) and the a continuum and discrete (found mostly in Europe). These opposing concepts are not non sequiturs. They are really opposing concepts that help people develop their minds and build the Spirit that God gives them.
An example of a God-made continuum is a number system made of the discrete numbers 1, 2, 3, ... etc. This continuum and its discrete numbers exist forever and can be used by all people who exist in God’s created world.
An example of a Man-made continuum is a religion and its discrete members. The members of a religion who die will never understand what happened to this Man-made religion. For instance, the people who believed in pantheism do not know what happened to its religion after they died. Since I live at a time when pantheism was destroyed, I know that pantheism was replaced by Abraham’s monotheism.
The Catholic church says that it is the last and only true church because it came from Jesus Christ through the man, Peter. But Jesus Christ was not God. He was merely a human being who found many truths in Greece. Since we know that Jewish people, Islam people, and modern scientists also found new truths about God and His universe, it is not possible that the Catholic church is the last and only true church.
Here, I have used a simple pair of opposites and found a falsity about the Catholic church, that it is not the last and true religion that ever exists. Since the Catholic church, or any other church, synagogue, or mosques do not hold all of the truths about God and the Universe, being a member of a religious organization must be based only on its development of knowledge.
Obviously, a person cannot become a member of a religious organization based only on past family or national behaviors. A person should only become a member of a religious organization that is developing truths about God and the His universe.
An example of a God-made continuum is a number system made of the discrete numbers 1, 2, 3, ... etc. This continuum and its discrete numbers exist forever and can be used by all people who exist in God’s created world.
An example of a Man-made continuum is a religion and its discrete members. The members of a religion who die will never understand what happened to this Man-made religion. For instance, the people who believed in pantheism do not know what happened to its religion after they died. Since I live at a time when pantheism was destroyed, I know that pantheism was replaced by Abraham’s monotheism.
The Catholic church says that it is the last and only true church because it came from Jesus Christ through the man, Peter. But Jesus Christ was not God. He was merely a human being who found many truths in Greece. Since we know that Jewish people, Islam people, and modern scientists also found new truths about God and His universe, it is not possible that the Catholic church is the last and only true church.
Here, I have used a simple pair of opposites and found a falsity about the Catholic church, that it is not the last and true religion that ever exists. Since the Catholic church, or any other church, synagogue, or mosques do not hold all of the truths about God and the Universe, being a member of a religious organization must be based only on its development of knowledge.
Obviously, a person cannot become a member of a religious organization based only on past family or national behaviors. A person should only become a member of a religious organization that is developing truths about God and the His universe.
posted by George Shollenberger @ 7:57 PM
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