Organized Religion: Natural Or Unnatural? (Jesus Christ, priests, testimony, Moses)

[Heneni]

God has distributed the knowledge of himself through many civilizations and many nations. The combined truth of god is scattered all over the world, hence it can not be confined by any one religion or any one person.

If you look for the treasures of god, you will find it all over. Its only when you look for treasure that you will spot it when you see it.

I think religion makes the process of spiritual growth unnatural. Mostly the revelation of god comes from a relationship with him, and not by joining any particular religion.

I think people find comfort in religion because they have friends that share their interests and who walk with them. But religion has become something that god has not intended it to be....the authority figure on the matters of god.

God is in charge of god, and the matters of god. Religion says believe what i do and you will be right, god says believe me and you will be right. And since knowledge of him is all over i think that religion has missed the fact that your neighbour might be more enlightened by looking for clues of god in everyday life rather than studying the scriptures daily and finding nothing in it that would change your life.

Heneni

[Nessa Nenharma]

Originally Posted by cardero

Given what we know about Nature and GOD, is the understanding of what we know about organized religion natural or unnatural?

Are these organizations a derivative if human nature or GOD Nature?

If you choose natural as an answer, what exactly is it that makes it natural? Is it as one believes, the belief in which God’s will is written on the hearts of men? Are there any religious props that are required? Is belief natural?

If you believe that organized is unnatural what could religion do to align itself into a more Natural state that reflects the aspects of GOD’s nature?

I believe it is a natural way of explaining and dealing with the World and people around us.

[Aqualung]

Unnatural, but the only way to truth. After all, the natural man is an enemy to God. It follows that the natural man is an enemy to God's organisation, and thus that God's organised church is unnatural to man.

[tomspug]

If "religion" wasn't natural, then why are there no cultures that are religion-less? It makes sense that people would attempt to create order from chaos. We do it when we farm crops, build buildings, and conduct energy.

The only religions that are truly distinct are PERSONAL religions (i.e. relationships with something divine). Organized religion has no distinctive value over other religions unless it nurtures the personal religions of its members.