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Logic/knowledge.....religious rituals?
Can you explain the logic behind the answer?
logic and knowledge is limited.
The answer is God, there are NO limitations.
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Logic/knowledge.....religious rituals?
Can you explain the logic behind the answer?
I see a danger of the ritual is that it can become what is worshipped. The focus of worship becomes the ritual, which then distracts us from what was the original pupose and thus blinds us to the true purpose.
Regards Tony
Logic/knowledge.
logic and knowledge is limited.
The answer is God, there are NO limitations.
I can see that. Would another way to see it is that ritual and worship are one and the same?
Holy masochism.
I could totally get behind that in another context.
And the catharsis.Right?! The effect I am sure is the same: pain in those contexts tends to create a powerful mental state (headspace, eh?) that is euphoric, lending a bit of magic to the ritual.
And the catharsis.
I see there will always be a connection of some ritual in worship. At the same time I see it is important not to let the ritual to distract, or blind us from the purpose
The ritual of the breaking of bread and drinking of wine is an example. It was a covenant that was to prepare the person for the Return of Christ. It was to partake of the Love and Remembrance of Christ and the Word until Christ returned. If the ritual does not achieve the aim, then its practice is fruitless. The ritual may become a cloud, that only prevents us seeing the true intent.
Regards Tony
Other "religious."
Regardless people's disagreements, the opinion is still the same-some say it's wrong. Why and how.
God. I think I would much prefer to die fighting for my life in battle, than having a priest rip my heart out in a religious ritual. Oh hell yeah, let me die fighting.If you're referring to the Aztec sacrificial ritual of cutting out people's hearts, you should keep in mind that that was mostly done to soldiers captured in war as the Aztecs aimed to capture their foes for sacrifice rather than killing them on the battlefield. So then you have to decide if killing someone immediately in combat is inherently more ethical than killing them later? Either way, they die and gruesomely at that.
Is ritual a bad thing because of its external nature?
No it is not a bad thing, unless it did not serve the purpose intended.
RegardsTony
....religious rituals?
Can you explain the logic behind the answer?
Inherently? Nothing. Rituals are a way for us to express significance.....religious rituals?
Can you explain the logic behind the answer?
Inherently? Nothing. Rituals are a way for us to express significance.
....religious rituals?
Can you explain the logic behind the answer?
Would another way to see it is that ritual and worship are one and the same?
Why do people think it serves no purpose?
It's like marriage. Blaming the ritual caused the divorce rather than the couple.
What do you think is behind people's distaste in rituals (to the point of invalidating worship if done with ritual)?
....religious rituals?
Can you explain the logic behind the answer?
We are commanded NOT to go beyond what is written in the Bible.
Who is honored by repeating the same things, mindlessly, over and over...is God a moron?
If our own children did that to us, we would haul them off for a mental health assessment. Ritual, if it has no scriptural mandate, accomplishes nothing of value to either its intended audience or to the one performing it...(only selfishly perhaps)
Rituals can be symbolic and if carried out as God himself directed, then nothing wrong with that.
The problem arises IMO when humans add to what God has commanded and take things to a ridiculous degree....then ritual becomes a man-made burden for no good reason apart from the idea that "if a little is good, a lot must be better"....it doesn't work that way with God...all he wants you to do is obey him without altering or adding to his instructions.
No, they are not the same. "Religion" is a man made concept. Religion is not the same as worship.
When humans left off being obedient to God and wanted to do things their own way, they invented religion as a means to practice worship according to their own rules, not God's. I believe that the devil played right into that scenario, providing all manner of rituals to enslave the stupid humans who didn't even realize that he was having a lend of them
“Also, when you pray, do not act like the hypocrites, for they like to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the main streets to be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your private room and, after shutting your door, pray to your Father who is in secret. Then your Father who looks on in secret will repay you.
When praying, do not say the same things over and over again as the people of the nations do, for they imagine they will get a hearing for their use of many words. 8 So do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need even before you ask him.