Why Humans are Religious

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There is, of course, a plausible reason why humans are religious, why they believe that there is something more to life than simply existing.
Because there is.
It is the supreme height of arrogance to assume that we know all there is to know, that because we can't "see" something that it doesn't exist.
I mean, throughout history there were things that people KNEW didn't exist or were impossible and yet, here we are in the 21st century and so many of that has been proven wrong ( flight, space travel, nuclear energy to name just 3).
Can you imagine what the next 2000 years will bring?
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Vergil wrote:So what is the reason why people are religious beings y:-?
People seek religion and spiritual things, because we are spiritual beings.
John 5:24
24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.


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And Why are we spiritual beings?
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crochet1949 wrote:And Why are we spiritual beings?
Because we are made by God, milady
Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.
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Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.
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Vergil wrote:
crochet1949 wrote:And Why are we spiritual beings?
Because we are made by God, milady
We are created by God, to have a relationship with Him.
John 5:24
24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.


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RickD wrote:
Vergil wrote:
crochet1949 wrote:And Why are we spiritual beings?
Because we are made by God, milady
We are created by God, to have a relationship with Him.
I find it kind of passé when people bemoan the purpose of life. Whenever somebody asks me what the purpose of life is, I respond with lightning speed "To form a relationship with God" like you said Rick. A lot of people agree when I put it that way.

That's why I am well pleased to have converted to Christianity during my teens. There exists, at last, a belief system that sufficiently answers life's questions, and not only that, coincides with reality, logic, and every other faculty of thought that makes it nigh-impenetrable.

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." C. S. Lewis
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Hortator wrote:
RickD wrote:
Vergil wrote:
crochet1949 wrote:And Why are we spiritual beings?
Because we are made by God, milady
We are created by God, to have a relationship with Him.
I find it kind of passé when people bemoan the purpose of life. Whenever somebody asks me what the purpose of life is, I respond with lightning speed "To form a relationship with God" like you said Rick. A lot of people agree when I put it that way.

That's why I am well pleased to have converted to Christianity during my teens. There exists, at last, a belief system that sufficiently answers life's questions, and not only that, coincides with reality, logic, and every other faculty of thought that makes it nigh-impenetrable.

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." C. S. Lewis
Yes, we Are created by God, to have relationship with Him. And How do we have that relationship With Him?
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crochet1949 wrote:
Hortator wrote:
RickD wrote:
Vergil wrote:
crochet1949 wrote:And Why are we spiritual beings?
Because we are made by God, milady
We are created by God, to have a relationship with Him.
I find it kind of passé when people bemoan the purpose of life. Whenever somebody asks me what the purpose of life is, I respond with lightning speed "To form a relationship with God" like you said Rick. A lot of people agree when I put it that way.

That's why I am well pleased to have converted to Christianity during my teens. There exists, at last, a belief system that sufficiently answers life's questions, and not only that, coincides with reality, logic, and every other faculty of thought that makes it nigh-impenetrable.

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." C. S. Lewis
Yes, we Are created by God, to have relationship with Him. And How do we have that relationship With Him?
By doing what is right and just, for God is a God of Order and Love, Love our neighbors and everything God has given to us and we shall 'tis relationship with our Lord.
Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.
- Jesus Christ

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.
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I should have worded that differently -- how does a person gain a relationship with Him? Meaning - becoming a child of God / son/daughter of God. Salvation.

For instance -- Romans 10:9 - 10 " that is you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."

1 Corinthians 15:1-4 -- the Gospel unto salvation.

Would you agree with That?
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crochet1949 wrote:I should have worded that differently -- how does a person gain a relationship with Him? Meaning - becoming a child of God / son/daughter of God. Salvation.

For instance -- Romans 10:9 - 10 " that is you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."

1 Corinthians 15:1-4 -- the Gospel unto salvation.

Would you agree with That?
I agree, to enter into a relationship with God, you must wholeheartedly accept the Son. Jesus Christ, who died in the cross so the our sins be forgiven so that we can go back home and bask in the glow of our Father, God.

We are like planets, revolving one center, the sun, without it's illuminating light, the world will freeze to death.
Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.
- Jesus Christ

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.
- Charles Stanley
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Yes -- and as a child of God, through salvation, we Will have the desire to do good things For God.

So -- what Does make people religious / spiritual beings. Why not simply 'beings'.
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I don't know milady, forgive me, I can't answer that.
Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.
- Jesus Christ

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.
- Charles Stanley
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It's because God created us that way.
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It's because God created us that way.
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Hebrews 12:2-3 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith;who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,despising the shame,and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

2nd Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not,lest the light of this glorious gospel of Christ,who is the image of God,should shine unto them.
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