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I can't speak for anyone else, of course, but for me, it's personal experience.What do you believe is the core of religious faith?
I can't speak for anyone else, of course, but for me, it's personal experience.
Theophany.Yeah, but what sort of personal experience?
Dude... WHAT?!?!How is it distinguished from the sort of experience whereby I form the belief that I'm being appeared to redly or the sort of experience whereby I form the belief that modus ponens is necessarily true or that my mother died in 2000?
I would think that Truth is what unites man with GOD. Faith between man and GOD would leave both entities expectant, hopeful and ignorant of each other.What do you believe is the core of religious faith? Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Baha'i Faith, wrote that it "is that mystic feeling which unites man with God."
What do you believe is the core of religious faith?
What do you believe is the core of religious faith? Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Baha'i Faith, wrote that it "is that mystic feeling which unites man with God."
thats very satanic....I would say that the core of any religious faith or spiritual path is the individual follower him/herself
What do you believe is the core of religious faith? Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Baha'i Faith, wrote that it "is that mystic feeling which unites man with God."
You are limiting your concept of religion to just theistic religion, and you seem predisposed to view it as just monotheistic religion. That is probably because your direct experience of religion has been a monotheistic tradition. So God is a necessary part of your "core", but not everyone's. In general, religion tends to prescribe a doctrine of behavior that is based on belief in supernatural forces (for example, a spiritual plane of existence) that human beings can interact with--either to influence or be influenced by. Religious doctrines prescribe behaviors related to that interaction.
I think that it is necessary to distinguish between religion and belief in magic or occult forces. Religions are more concerned with right and wrong behavior towards other human beings. Belief in the occult does not usually prescribe moral conduct. So religions play a very special role in culture and society.
thats very satanic....
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Simply "a union with God". That is what is most important.