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Monday, April 5, 2010

Prayers, chapter 2

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Prtayers of Reconciliation
Prayers, chapter 2

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CHAPTER 2

After a very long time and reflections about this God sent task that seems to be within me all the time and never lets me go; I have come to the conclusion that perhaps I could never find peace within myself unless I fulfill my desire to write about these religious beliefs, so, I have decided to talk to my friends again, in the hope that they now may have come to see my task in a more favorable way.

So I called them to let them know that I would like to see them again on this religious subject whenever they have spare time, I have been waiting for them for a while now, while I have been waiting I thought that it could be a good thing to write down the reasons why I started to write these religious writings.

Then I started to think that one of the reasons was/is, that I see God somehow different from everybody else, now that I have said it, I need to explain what I think God may be like, in the hope that the explaining of this article may help me to explain myself better to my reader and to friends and win their consent.

I suppose you may be asking yourself why this has happened to me, so, let me first inform you my dear readers the reason why I started to write these religious writings; well it was for my own personal reasons which I will explain to you better later on, I have started to write these religious writings as my personal prayer to Our Father God Most High, therefore, these writings are being written as my personal prayers to God Most High, which I pray from the bottom of my heart, my soul and my mind, I pray every day of my life, while I am happy and while I am sad and distressed. Therefore within these writings here will be lots of prayers: In some of these prayers I’ll be praying God for forgiveness in order to become purified, and therefore become worthy to become God’s servant and therefore to write God’s things; and then again in another prayer I’ll be invoking help from God so that I would be able to write my religious writings the proper way, and in some prayers I will be asking God to protect me from the forces of evil; because the force of evil may try to take me away from God’s life force, therefore it is important for me to beware the forces of evil and pray God to help me.

So, just now I am praying God to send me an angel from the realm of glory, who would suggest me how to write something about God’s Creation and the Creator Glory, so that I could be inspired and be able to continue to write my religious writings.

This is what came to my mind; I have to define who is God and what God is like and why we need religion and God?

I have to stop writing now, because I can hear somebody at the door, I can hear the voices of my friends, so they are here now.


Third Meeting

After greeting and all other niceties that occur every time good friends meet, I Mark and Gino made ourselves comfortable and started to talk about the agenda of the meeting, and I asked them;

So, you have come just the two of you because any other friend does not want to take part in these religious talks?

What is the matter with them?

Don’t they see that we are talking only and nothing is happening?

Anyhow that does not matter; perhaps we are better off without them if they worry too much about changing religious things.

Now tell me, what do people said when you have talked to them about God and religion lately?

Here Mark was ready to answer me; and this is what he said:


Mark reply

Well, most of them are not interested about talking religious things, and those who are have expressed themselves in many different ways:

(1) Some people believe in God and religion just the way it is, this portion of people do not want any change in religion, so they are happy to stay with the ways religions are nowadays. It is no use to talk to them unless you agree fully with their religious beliefs.


(2) There is a portion of people that have doubts about nowadays religions, some of which don’t feel sure whether what is being thought about religion is all true, so, they are believers but with a little doubt in their mind and heart. You can talk to this group of people but they are not much help, if you want to find new ideas.

(2b) Right in the middle there is this large group of people, which believe in God and religions only up to a point, these people usually are full of all sorts of questions, as they would like to know more, in the hope that they can return to religion fully.

(2c) The extreme in this middle group is formed by those who believe very little in religion as it is today, so, they are asking too many questions themselves about religions, they are agnostic as they believe and at the same time don’t believe, one does not know what to do with this group, and yet they are the most interesting ones. That is all there is in this middle group.


(3) This last group I would call the danger group for religious beliefs, they are the atheist, they don’t believe in God and religions, so, for them it would be better if religions did not exist. They are usually very intelligent and have a good job, so for them there are no worries in life, therefore, they don’t see the need of god and religion. Therefore, this well to do group starts putting forwards all sort of stories in order to blame religion for some of the bad things they have done in the past, but they don’t see that mankind have only to blame themselves, because no religion tells its believers to directly kill. Then there is also the fact that a few in this group are poor uneducated people and they don’t believe in God just to protest their bad luck, as they are not happy about what the world is giving them, so, they see the need to believe only in themselves; now, because of this belief they may become the worst of mankind, as they don’t have any respect for humanity, and also they don’t have a God or religion or any other sort of inbuilt restrain within them. I could say more but I think it is better that I stop here and see what you do think about it all. I only would like to add that what I have learned from all this enquiries; and I want you to remember how I see religion now, as this may well be important from now on, if we are talking religious things;

Remember that;

Religion and God is hope for those who need hope most.



Very well said Mark! I said, and so did Gino at the same time.


Then I turned to Gino, and said: Now that we have heard what mark had to say, what do you think of his speech? And what have you found out for yourself, it is your turn to speak.


Gino speech:

I have to say that Mark and I agree on most of these religious things, so there is no point in repeating them, I only would like to say a bit more about the last group of people who we call the atheists, as they need to be noted about their ways of thinking and speeches, any believer should avoid to talk to any of them about religious matters, because soon or later they are inclined to ridicule your religious beliefs, they are usually good intelligent people, so it is hard for any religious people to defend themselves from this group.

They attack believers usually by asking proof of any religious matter, so Mark is right when he calls them the danger group of religious beliefs. We really need to think hard how to defend ourselves from this group, Let me show you a few examples about what they usually talk to get the believers off guard.


You believers say that God is Omnipotent, now if God is omnipotent then god should be capable to do anything at all no matter how difficult the task is.

Now, there are many things in the world that need to be fixed, why your god does not fix them? We say that your God most likely does not exist; or he is definitely not omnipotent, or he is not willing to fix anything, so your god is not your fatherly benevolent god that you say he is. Therefore your religious beliefs are flawed.

We say that we are right to assume that there is no God and religions are there only to control people, now since religions fight with each others, it would have been better if religions did not exist.


This sort of reasoning goes on with many gods attributes and they challenge the believers to give proof of the existence of God and its attributes. So it is hard for any believers to give proof of God and its attributes. How can any believers give proof about God?

And god omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence and many other God attributes?

For the atheists God and religion is better it does not exist.

What can one do to change their attitude I don’t know?

I hope I have explained myself clear enough in this difficult report.


Your speech is clear enough for me I said; then I turned to Mark and asked: what do you think of Gino speech mark? His speech is very clear for me too; in fact it is just about what I would have liked to say myself. But now, where do we go from here I don’t Know?

O.K. I suppose I need to say something myself now.


MY SPEECH (Fran)

And this is what I said: Mark and Gino, now that you have seen for yourselves what religious people think and what atheist think, I am sure that you might start thinking more like me, which is that something needs to be done to help religions find a way of complete peaceful existence.

To achieve complete peaceful existence is not easy the way religions are today, therefore, I believe that religions need to be reviewed and bought in line with the present times; but nobody wants to listen to my approach, so there is not much that one can do presently; but one can always start thinking about the possibilities, if one day something can be done to solve this religious problem.

The only way that this can be achieved is to come up with a theory, which allows the existence of religions as they are; but at the same time finds a way and shows it clearly to the people that all religions are a link of the same chain. I know this is not as simple as it sounds, but if we keep looking we will find the way.

I have found that there was a philosopher called, Baruch Spinoza, 1632-1677 who believed that it is more likely that God may not be just the way that religions want you to believe nowadays; but it could be that God was more like Mother Nature therefore it is more likely that we all are part of God and God is everything or at least every living thing in existence.

Now if God could not be exactly how we believe god is like; then it may well be that God is more like what Spinoza believed god was like, this may very well be the link that we need to find in order to link all existing religions together.

Then if we think a bit like Spinoza and add to knowledge which we have today, we might be able to describe a god which could co-exist with all religions together.

So, let us put out minds together and see if we can describe this God for all; which we could call God-Most-High.

My friends Mark and Gino said; yes let us make a list of how god could be; just to see if we are able to find a way to Spinoza thinking about, what is God?

Well I said; a while ago I was thinking this same thing, so I have already written something about, what is God? So here is what I wrote:


What is God?


God-Most-High is the unseen life force of the whole universe.

The unseen cosmos and God is one and the same thing.

God uses this cosmos to communicate with everything.

So, throughout the unseen cosmos of the whole universe,

God-Life-Force continually gives life to every living thing.

The cosmos radiates God’s medium for every living thing,

And God hopes that through it man would follow Him.

So, happy should be those who are able to follow Him.

For those who do, God has promised them eternal life.

So, follow God’s rules and you will save yourself forever.

But if you don’t; you would not find your way to salvation.


At this point my friends were astonished and were reflecting what I had written, and then they said; Fran, this god you are talking about could indeed overcome most if not all obstacles, which nowadays exist in religions. Of course that can only happen if religions are willing to accept this new way of seeing god, and also are ready to change a little bit.

But now we are wondering how we could describe this god and say who is God, not just what is God?

We are willing to help while we are here.

Then, we started to work together on the definitions below, hoping that we would be able to explain who is God? Or at least try to explain who is God?


WHO IS GOD?

So, let me briefly describe the grandeur of God of the Universe.


There is only one true existing God throughout the universe.

This God is the positive active life-force of the whole universe.

Every living being or thing is part of this God life force.

No living thing can exist without God, since God is life itself.

Therefore, God is the life essence of the whole universe.


The grandeur of God is seen in the creation of every existing thing.

That is where God’s masterpiece is the creation of us human beings.

God loves us human beings because we act and are very much like him.

Since we are the top of all earthly life and God is at the top of everything.

But God’s greatest grandeur is shown in his mercy for us all human beings.


LET US JUST IMAGINE:

If created things would speak for themselves what would they say about God?

When at night I look at the sky and at the stars, I would like to ask the stars;

Tell me you beautiful stars, who is God? Order those stars will answer me.

When in the gardens I see all these beautiful flowers, I would like to ask those flowers;

Tell me you beautiful flowers, who is God? Beauty those flowers will answer me.

If all living things and animals on earth were able to think, what would they say about God? They would say that God is life, since God has given life to them and to all human beings.

If I were able to meet the wise leaders of the world, I would like to ask those leaders;

Tell me you wise leaders of the world, who is God? I am sure that most of them will answer me: God is the active life-force that guides the whole universe; God is wisdom, God is order, God is beauty, God is life, and God is love; God loves every living thing because every living thing is a part of God Himself; but above all He loves us human beings because we resample Him, and in his great love and mercy He will forgive us all our life sins, if only we would repent and ask Him forgiveness; because God loves us beyond any human understanding, since He is our Father and we are all his chosen children, whether we are rich or poor, whether we are healthy or sick, whether we are wise or stupid, whether we are young or old, whether we come from Africa, Asia or from anywhere in the world and our skin is different color, we are all the same to God. Therefore, it would be right for us to assume that we are God’s children and that God loves all of us; but at the same time during our lives we have to learn what God has done for us in the past, so that we may be able to understand our own situation.

The sacred book of the Bible, which is the book that many religions of the world have come from is full of many things, which God has done for us according to the writers of that time, and if we apply our intelligent minds and learn from it, we would be able to understand about the great love that God has for us, since God has send us many great people to guide the human race, from Moses to our Lord Jesus Christ.

As we all know there are a few religions that have come from the teaching of the Bible, and I will try to comment on these religions later on. What I want to mention now is the fact that in his love for us, God has sent to us the Savior Our Lord Jesus Christ, who during his short life on earth has showed us by his own life example the way that we should live our own life, if we want to live our lives according to God The Father.


Having done so much work at this meeting we all were feeling tired, I was thinking that we did not even mention anything about the last meeting, which ended while we were talking the very end of the Bible and what it meant: but anyhow we have done enough this third meeting, so I never said anything to my friends about that and went along with them, so we stopped our religious meeting and spend the rest of the time as friends usually do, having a drink together and chatting light enjoyable small talks.


JUST PLEASANT EMAIL SURPRISES

The day after the third meeting I checked my email and found just what could be helpful to these religious writings; my friend who wants to be called on the Internet Frank@yahoo has written a post in a blog that we share, also with Manfraco Laws, so what I am writing here is the reply to those emails:

Therefore, this is the continuation of the blog therewith; edited by Manfraco, this is also a reply to the post of Frank@yahoo and other matters that have come up recently:

The post in the blog called, Religious Reconciliation, my fried Frank@yahoo express his concerns about religious matters, he is saying in his own clear ways that he agrees with me, because his concerns are mostly like my own concerns on religious matters. So, now I feel relieved from his agreement, and I am more willing to continue my search about my own idealistic world Religious Reconciliation and how to achieve that, no matter how long it is going to take me to get it started.

Frank@yahoo believes that religions are going to face hard times in the near future; and this is part of what he wrote in his post:

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Frank@yahoo also believes that it is very important to keep religions, as close as possible the way they are, because, RELIGION AND GOD IS HOPE FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT MOST, I believe he is right, so, I don’t need to question myself which side to take, I know that I am a religious person and that I will follow religion, as there is a deep belief within me. I know that atheists seem to be able to win the case, if we look only at simple ways of reasoning, because what they say stands up to reason.

I believe that if all religions find a way to get together the atheists could not win the case, because their case is based mostly on the fighting that those religious extremist exercise, so we need to find a way how all existing religions could live in a peaceful way.

Since I have opened this blog, I have always thought that if I had some religious links, which express the willingness of any religious leader to find the way to religious reconciliation I would post them in my blog.

Today I have some good news about that, because I received an email with links from the Vatican, with request and permission that I could use those links in my blog.

Those links are about music from the Vatican, I know it does not sound much to start with, but it is a start and I am posting then hereunder, so that anybody can see and hear and enjoy what is going on. I hope they work.

Thanks to Peter Ruppert from the Vatican, here are the links including some explanations:


Music project on behalf of Geffen/Universal.

The project is called Music From The Vatican link below;

http://www.musicfromthevatican.com

The album is entitled Alma Mater and is recorded in the honor of the Virgin Mary.

To find out more about this project immediately, please view this YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/musicfromthevatican

Feel the grandeur of god’s creation on earth; see what they do at the Vatican, feel the great love that the Virgin Mary has for us all and many other things, it is very exciting and beautiful, so it is worth to give it a go.

I have to say that what interests me most is the fact that the pope is going to meet another religious leader, and in doing so he may start the process of reconciliation.

God bless you all.


This last article above is to show you what may happen, it was not my intention to write it here in the first place, but because is very religious I have included it here.


I hope to have another meeting soon with my friends Mark, Gino and others, but while I wait I may as well write something all by myself.

Prayers of Reconciliation
Prayers, chapter 2
IS TO BE CONTINUED;
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