Religion can be so distracting from the very thing its suppose to express.
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Is it difficult to be a religious person
- Thread starter Spirit of Light
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Religion can be so distracting from the very thing its suppose to express.
It's hard work and discipline, but my life is far more fulfilling with faith than it could ever be without.
leroy
Well-Known Member
I´ts hard to be religious and live your daily life accordingly, but it is even harder to be a atheists live your life accordingly. For example atheist have to deny things like free will (just to name an example) but obviously we all live our daily life as if we’d had free will.
True about the variance. Personally, I find it so easy to practice I could never call it a burden, but more like a reward of joy. Apparently not all folks agree.
DNB
Christian
God is revered as an all-knowing, holy and wise spiritual Being. Therefore, if we consider any of his precepts or mandates to be onerous, superfluous or tyrannical, one must appreciate that it is the human mind the construes such righteousness and discipline as such.
God loves everyone, and He always works towards their best - even as parents may seem harsh or restrictive to their kids, the perception is only in the eyes of the children, and not the mature.
Self-discipline, conservativism, prudence, apprehension, self-mortification are practices that build one's character - no one matured from partying or playing hedonism all their life.
It is the wise and the prudent who receive the praise from the crowds, and receive the approbation from God.
CharmingOwl
Member
There exist religions and pantheons where it's not so much about your behavior but how to interact with deities, methods of worship for gods and things like that. I believe mostly pagan and animistic religions functioned like this. In African spirituality it is said the gods don't care how we treat each other as long as they get paid for their blessings. To be honest I gravitate towards spiritual practices more than religions.
I was raised in the church and to me it seemed like more of a social club based on certain social rules than an actual religion. Maybe because I did not properly understand it. Recently some people tried to convert me to Hinduism only to guilt me on things I did which caused me to run like hell. I could never be in a religion or let alone group where everyone around is more virtuous than me and trying to hold me to their level. Maybe it's the way my mind is, but trying to hold myself to any religious rules for moral reasons will just give me cognitive dissonance.
In my practice it's said that you're not supposed to have caffeine or coffee because it hurts the pineal gland (Third eye) but if I one day have coffee while working it's not like I've commit a crime or something. I just deal with the headache that night and move on. I guess I could make rules for my diet but that's a slippery slope and I was already vegan for two years before.
I was raised in the church and to me it seemed like more of a social club based on certain social rules than an actual religion. Maybe because I did not properly understand it. Recently some people tried to convert me to Hinduism only to guilt me on things I did which caused me to run like hell. I could never be in a religion or let alone group where everyone around is more virtuous than me and trying to hold me to their level. Maybe it's the way my mind is, but trying to hold myself to any religious rules for moral reasons will just give me cognitive dissonance.
In my practice it's said that you're not supposed to have caffeine or coffee because it hurts the pineal gland (Third eye) but if I one day have coffee while working it's not like I've commit a crime or something. I just deal with the headache that night and move on. I guess I could make rules for my diet but that's a slippery slope and I was already vegan for two years before.
Sedim Haba
Outa here... bye-bye!
I found that the laws made by man were the worst. So I cut them all out. Best decision ever.
Messianic Israelite
Active Member
Seeker of White Light. Good afternoon. Yahweh's thoughts are far deeper than our own (Psalm 92:5). We can only skim the surface it seems with the wisdom that is contained in Yahweh's Law. However, what you said about leaving ones own 'wants' outside of the practice. This is what Yahshua meant when he said we have to deny ourselves saying: "And he called unto him the multitude with his disciples, and said unto them, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his yoke, and follow me." We have to put aside our own wants and do what Yahweh wants us to do. Until we get to the perfect state of mind where our wants are perfectly aligned with Yahweh's, then yes, we have to deny ourselves. We have to put Yahweh first.
Luke 9:62 says that that those who begin to work on their salvation (put their hand to the plow) and then desire to go back to the weak and beggarly rudiments of this world are not fit for the Kingdom of Yahweh. Matthew 6:33 tells us to seek first the Kingdom, and His righteousness and all the other things we desire will be added to us.