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| Different types of religion, how many are there? What are they?
Posted: 6/14/2006 11:58:09 AM | I believe of the larger religions, Hinduism predates Christ by about 1500 years so it would be considered the oldest.
And sure I agree public religion means power especially when mixed with politics as it has been over the centuries. | |
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| Different types of religion, how many are there? What are they?
Posted: 11/25/2006 9:16:06 PM | | Personally, I don't have a religion and sometimes I wonder if they cause more pain and suffering on both the personal and global scale than they actually relieve. I consider myself to be quite spiritual without being religious at all. My career is in the art of healing by touch and holistic means so I have to utilize energies and believe things that others would be very skeptical about. The same way that I would be skeptical about believing in god or Ala or aliens. | |
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| Different types of religion, how many are there? What are they?
Posted: 11/26/2006 1:01:23 AM | I don't know how many religions are out there.
I myself follow the preChristian beliefs of my Anglo-Nordic ancestors. When I was a teen the stereotype of the freebooting viking appealed to me, as did the idea that if I ended up in the most wyrm infested depths of Hell it would be because my deeds and their effect on my fellow Man meritted it, and NOT because I didn't stroke some deities ego.
Now, many years later, with a lot more knowledge and understanding under my belt, I would say that what the beliefs of the Anglo-Nordic peoples were and are all about is *wholeness*, which is as much as to say *holiness*. It's about being mindful of my relationship with nature, my friends, family, and society, my ancestors and cultural heroes, the past and the present, myself as an individual, and of course the divine.
Wholeness.
I would say that pretty well all ethnocentric belief systems are the same on that. | |
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| Different types of religion, how many are there? What are they?
Posted: 11/29/2006 9:47:07 PM | Religion. Is much a recognition in the masses of a creator, of some nature, often benevolent, with whom we lost conatct or are separate from due to injustices on our and and our ancestor's part. Bad deeds. So many think that by long prayers and or good works we gain right standing with him or her.
There is an offer of a description of an after life and some form of justice therein.
Some religions are man made. The Catholic religion is a revelation of God, I think once alive, now like a fossil. Once a spirituality, now a religion. Part way between the two. Since it says salvation is by faith not works, by God's power... yet most Catholics never experience God's power. Or His love.
I was Catholic and became a Catholic Charismatic. And later at 25 yrs old a Pentecostal in the Pentecostal Assemblies of God, and like also Vineyard churches. Both charismatic.
Jesus unlike other gods was a real historical person, who did the best of all the mythological gods. He was fully God, fully made flesh into the Adamic race, one of us. He was sinless, ie without injustices. He forgave sins. That would be like a Hindu meeting a man who determined his karma...
Jesus suffered in our place. No other gods did this. Jesus in the Adamic race faced the challenge of satan and his power without sin, and when sin was layed on Him still resisted and paid the price of injustices for us. He shed His blood. And engaged death in a battle, He won shown in the resurrection and so went to the underworld and to the Heavens in our place, even to God the Father and made a Way for the Adamic race to the Father with no injustices between us, so we can be friends with God.
So the perfect hight priest and prophet, man to God, God to man. Victory over sin and death and eternal life and healing and perfect love are in Him.
Jesus offers us a free gift of salvation in His presence in our hearts if we ask by faith.
So not good works, until after justification, but faith and Spirit power. Spirituality!!
Catholics think, yes salvation by faith, but good works must come before justification. Protestants say justification by faith, then good works follow.
As a Pentecostal I say we recieve Christ and are called sons and daughters of the king, a just name, then good works follow if you surrender to Jesus, king in your heart.
Hindus think good works. Karma.
Muslims think good works, prayers and then after punishment, paradise.
Christians believe in holiness, loving character, or pursuit of it. God will judge us. He is love and this means good, yet on judgement day the murderers even in heart, the adulterers, unmarried lovers, thieves, liars, envious, those with their own gods and the unloving will be judged. If they do not plead Jesus blood, they will be claimed by thier father and burn in the lake of fire. God sent His Son and lots of things, willing to give anything, but cannot tolerate sin, unrepentant for in His presence.
Those who accept Jesus sacrifice and are born again, and have Jesus blood to wash the sins away will be rewarded and consoled, reborn as children of God. Relying on God for salvation. | |
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| Different types of religion, how many are there? What are they?
Posted: 11/30/2006 1:05:12 AM | check out this site...
www.religioustolerance.org for a good list of world religions compiled by an ecumenical group of various theists and non-theists that describes all faiths from an open, honest and non-judgemental background - warts and all...with as little BS as possible and no spin.
Animism and magic of some sort followed by ancestor worship would be the oldest...followed by pantheism...
Hinduism probably close after that with other various forms of polytheism, including Sumerian and proto-Caananite gods, including the thunder-god who was one of the sons of El who would grow up to become YWH...or whatever he goes by..."The Lord"...yadayada...the "Ba-el" of the Israelites...
But check out the site...lots of good info there...
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