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Religion is for the most part irrational to human thinking. After all we are worshiping an invisible God whom we speak to and then interpret various feelings, coincidences or intangible signs as answers. All that is very subjective and malleable. We can take the irrational substance of our spiritual desires and mold any type of system we wish to make ourselves feel better. From the Tibetans who figure the more prayers they offer up the better chances they have that these prayers will be answered and rather than spend the entire day mumbling the same prayer over and over again they simply write it on a pinwheel and stick it in the wind and figure that every time that wheel goes round the prayer goes up to God to Jews who wail at the wall of a long destroyed the temple to Christians who too often offer up prayers as a talisman of good luck. It's not that they expect the thing to happen but they hope it will give the thing a better chance at happening.
The same goes for God's law. Like religion it is often very irrational on the spiritual side. On the physical side it is measurable, consistent, and unbreakable. Gravity always works. But on the spiritual side of things you can have 10 people who obey “the law of God” and not only are they obeying 10 different laws but they are obeying them in 10 different ways. Each one thinking that they are the ones who have identified God's law correctly and are obeying it correctly and everyone else is just simply wrong.
Most of the time it is our psychology that informs our religion. For instance, if we grew up in a chaotic and very uncontrolled environment we often have hard baked into us a desire for control so we seek out a religion that has levers and knobs that we can push and pull and we reject religions that are amorphous to us or I do not have a well-defined ladder to climb. On the other hand if I grew up in a laissez-faire environment where I was basically free to come and go as I pleased I might seek a religion that has plasticity where I can mold and bend it to any shape I choose. This goes for the law of God.
Many people do not take the Bible as their Authority but instead read all religions and try to seek the commonalities in them and thus discover the law of God. On this forum we have many different representations of the law of God. If you read the writings of @Studyman you will have one vision of God and his law but if you turn then and concentrate on the musings of @Comingfrom you will receive an entirely different view of the law of God and how to keep it. If you read my writings you'll have a third vision of the law of God and why to keep it.
As I prayed and thought about this phenomenon I realized that the only place we can find the truth is through the Holy Spirit. Unfortunately our flesh will not accept the things of the spirit but make its own strawman spirit to follow instead and this means our flesh must be destroyed and removed out of the way in order for us to hear and understand. It is the reason I firmly believe that God gives us salvation first (brings us to life or makes us alive) upon hearing him we either submit and abide or we reject and return to our old fleshly self.
It turns out, for me anyway, that the reason religion is irrational is because I tried to practice it on this mortal plain but the promises do not work here consistently. Most of the time, when a crisis arises, the chances that prayer will resolve the temporal turmoil by giving me what I desire is very slim. If Christians received a solution to all of their temporal earthly problems, the world would flock to the religion. In other words we would come for the loaves and the fishes and not for Jesus. But when, by the Holy Spirit, we transcend to the eternal plane, everything the bible promises comes true. This, of course, is something the Holy Spirit has to reveal for it is an impossible thing for the flesh to understand. But if with all our hearts we truly seek him, we shall ever surely find him amen.
The same goes for God's law. Like religion it is often very irrational on the spiritual side. On the physical side it is measurable, consistent, and unbreakable. Gravity always works. But on the spiritual side of things you can have 10 people who obey “the law of God” and not only are they obeying 10 different laws but they are obeying them in 10 different ways. Each one thinking that they are the ones who have identified God's law correctly and are obeying it correctly and everyone else is just simply wrong.
Most of the time it is our psychology that informs our religion. For instance, if we grew up in a chaotic and very uncontrolled environment we often have hard baked into us a desire for control so we seek out a religion that has levers and knobs that we can push and pull and we reject religions that are amorphous to us or I do not have a well-defined ladder to climb. On the other hand if I grew up in a laissez-faire environment where I was basically free to come and go as I pleased I might seek a religion that has plasticity where I can mold and bend it to any shape I choose. This goes for the law of God.
Many people do not take the Bible as their Authority but instead read all religions and try to seek the commonalities in them and thus discover the law of God. On this forum we have many different representations of the law of God. If you read the writings of @Studyman you will have one vision of God and his law but if you turn then and concentrate on the musings of @Comingfrom you will receive an entirely different view of the law of God and how to keep it. If you read my writings you'll have a third vision of the law of God and why to keep it.
As I prayed and thought about this phenomenon I realized that the only place we can find the truth is through the Holy Spirit. Unfortunately our flesh will not accept the things of the spirit but make its own strawman spirit to follow instead and this means our flesh must be destroyed and removed out of the way in order for us to hear and understand. It is the reason I firmly believe that God gives us salvation first (brings us to life or makes us alive) upon hearing him we either submit and abide or we reject and return to our old fleshly self.
It turns out, for me anyway, that the reason religion is irrational is because I tried to practice it on this mortal plain but the promises do not work here consistently. Most of the time, when a crisis arises, the chances that prayer will resolve the temporal turmoil by giving me what I desire is very slim. If Christians received a solution to all of their temporal earthly problems, the world would flock to the religion. In other words we would come for the loaves and the fishes and not for Jesus. But when, by the Holy Spirit, we transcend to the eternal plane, everything the bible promises comes true. This, of course, is something the Holy Spirit has to reveal for it is an impossible thing for the flesh to understand. But if with all our hearts we truly seek him, we shall ever surely find him amen.
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