The One True Religion

Roguish said:

No, it is not what I mean.
In the garden of Eden, noone practiced religion,
for what isn't broken, need not be fixed.



That is great news!
Surely they are my people!
Can you link me to their internet locations?



I am sorry that I was unclear.
I was referring to your earlier posts.
In one you wrote "Even we are",
in another you wrote that I was speaking of "reality, not a book".
Those your posts I have not understood.

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I know what you can't understand and I still can't help you

SLPCCC said:

When Jesus said that, did he think about the innocent people in the tribal religions in Africa, Asia, and the Americas? They never heard about Jesus and died. I think he was just talking to those around him. Otherwise, all those innocent people are doomed.

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Dear SLPCCC,

Jesus is attentiveness, innocence and humility. All, qualities one can possess without ever having heard of any religion.

Some say that we are all born with those traits but lose them along the way. Others claim the exact opposite; that - if we are lucky - life will teach us (the hard way, perhaps) our need to acquire them.

I’m not sure it matters who is right in this respect. The point is that a life in attentiveness, innocence and humility is according to Jesus the only way to... the Father (and Heaven, etc. ).

Humbly
Hermit

Roguish said:

this here thread I did not start to expound teachings
but only to ascertain
if any followers of the One True Religion
are present on this forum.
Protocol requires me to make this inquiry.

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Who’s protocol? You are obviously associated with some kind of religious movement where you apparently must enquire if others of your “religion” are present on Internet forums......please correct me if I am wrong.

I am puzzled that a 45 year old man would engage in religious discussion on this level.....I expected you to be a naive teenager....

What is your purpose here....? After reading your posts, I am now suspicious of your motives...

Roguish said:

Hail to you members all.

A follower of the One True Religion, I am.
Be there other followers on ye forum?
Nice it would be, to hear from you.
Dispel the loneliness it would.
Soothe my pain it might.
Relieve my fears perchance --
for a while.

May you be safe.

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I too follow the One True Religion so you need fear not being alone.

I am my own god, I am.

Follow not me, but follow you, your own religion formed by you, your own god.

Ha, ha.

YoursTrue said:

Not sure if that's what was meant when the poster said about sweet tooth. To me, I can look also at colors and beautiful scenery, or animals and am reminded of God. As well as good food.

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No friend, of Cthulhu or Flying Spaghetti Monster. We are qwuick on imagining things.

Power Stone said:

I know what you can't understand and I still can't help you

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I learned early on that only God can help a person gain faith. I know it seems like a conundrum, but it became true in my case. I didn't believe, I was told by a minister that only God can help me (I found that confusing, but...), and eventually I found that God DID help me. I'm found.

YoursTrue said:

I was told by a minister that only God can help me (I found that confusing, but...), and eventually I found that God DID help me. I'm found.

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Sadly some people don't know how 'lost' they are.... Jesus will set them straight. (Matthew 7:21-23) His is the only religion God recognizes. The "sheep" find the "Shepherd" because they are searching for each other. God brings them together into one flock.....there are no loners or black sheep.

Deeje said:

Sadly some people don't know how 'lost' they are.... Jesus will set them straight. (Matthew 7:21-23) His is the only religion God recognizes. The "sheep" find the "Shepherd" because they are searching for each other. God brings them together into one flock.....there are no loners or black sheep.

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Yes. Interesting how Jesus kept quoting scripture to them. I did not know Jesus until I began studying the Bible with the Witnesses. I resisted until then for years, remember cursing a guy at work who was a Jehovah's Witness before I studied with them, refused to speak to them until one day -- I began asking questions. And they answered me so I began understanding.

Roguish said:

Yes, no other followers are here, it seems.
Lonely that makes me feel.
But I had to ask.

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I might be, although I'm not sure what you think of it.
Because you may have a clearer definition
of this One True Religion than I do.
I can't be sure how much knowledge our Creator has given you, and how much you have been redeemed of deceit and impurities, because I myself am still struggling with deceit and impurities.

The One True Religion,
Is it a religion where honesty and respect is encouraged,
including respect and honesty towards those who choose to be dishonest and disrespectful?
Where acknowledgement of the Source of All is preached,
Yet, where one has the freedom to turn away from Him and live in the temporary comfort of being their own god?
Where the messengers warn that everything you do in this life, has repercussions in the next?
If this is what you follow,
Then I might be familiar with The One True Religion too...

Beautiful, Gorgovic Malkav. My only concern is whether it goes against science.

Aupmanyav said:

Beautiful, Gorgovic Malkav. My only concern is whether it goes against science.

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That is a concern for those who put all their faith in science.

Well, I prefer that to believing in pink fairies.

cataway said:

there is one true God . why not one true religion ?

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Neither can be objectively established, so it all boils down to what one might choose to believe. I do have some "leanings", but I do also try and keep an open mind on this.

stvdv said:

My common sense also tells me that there is not "one true religion"

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I strongly tend to agree.

metis said:

Neither can be objectively established, so it all boils down to what one might choose to believe. I do have some "leanings", but I do also try and keep an open mind on this.

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it would seem some one is still tiring to decide if a true God actually exists

The one true religion is based on the promise of the coming of the Holy Spirit. One is not taught the words of the spirit, but these words begins to appear from within. It is connected to faith.

The traditional group hug approach to religion was designed for mutual support and reinforcement. It was a shadow of the things to come; inner voice. Then one becomes a child of God and religion becomes a living thing; tree of life its its twelve types of fruit and its leaves for healing the nations.

Aupmanyav said:

Beautiful, Gorgovic Malkav. My only concern is whether it goes against science.

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Now please explain how come this is assumptions in science and not truth and what not:

• Nature is orderly, and the laws of nature describe that order. ...
• We can know nature. ...
• All phenomena have natural causes. ...
• Nothing is self evident. ...
• Knowledge is derived from acquisition of experience. ...
• Knowledge is superior to ignorance.

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Understanding science: scientific assumptions | News24

cataway said:

it would seem some one is still tiring to decide if a true God actually exists

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Not actually as I am convinced there is no way to objectively know.

OTOH, I do know there's "Something" that goes beyond our ability to understand, and this is due to roughly two years of personal "experiences" that defied there not being as such. However, since those "experiences" cannot be proven to anyone else, I simply cannot take it any further than that.

Since I am a scientist (now retired), we are trained to be skeptical thus asking questions and looking for objective answers. Religion, otoh, simply does not rely on objectivity since mere beliefs are not pieces of evidence. To assume something is true minus such objective evidence is just guessing and then blindly believing the guesses, and that simply isn't my nature.

IOW, saying "I don't know" is not a sign of weakness on such matters.

mikkel_the_dane said:

Now please explain how come this is assumptions in science and not truth and what not:

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1. Nature is orderly, and the laws of nature describe that order: Has the writer heard of uncertainty, probaility and chaos. This is a misrepresentation of science.
2. We can know nature: We have known a lot about nature and continue to know more about it each day. There are problems which seem intractable, for example, singularity. But there may be ways to know more in spite of them, for example, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation. So, science keeps on trying. Science does not indulge in prophecy about the extent we will be able to know or not know.
3. All phenomena have natural causes: Seems reasonable. On what ground we should assume the opposite?
4. Nothing is self evident: We do not assume anything. We check what the idiots say. We find many of things that the idiots say are wrong and imagination only (annoyed at the words in the article, that is why repeating them).
5. Knowledge is derived from acquisition of experience: There are reasons for their migration. And we now know a lot about those reasons.
6. Knowledge is superior to ignorance: I would have wished that people agree to this but the majority refuse to do so.

Basically science does not assume. Since asks questions and then searches for answers.
The article in reference in a news-blurb. Nothing substantial there.

Aupmanyav said:

1. Nature is orderly, and the laws of nature describe that order: Has the writer heard of uncertainty, probaility and chaos. This is a misrepresentation of science.
2. We can know nature: We have known a lot about nature and continue to know more about it each day. There are problems which seem intractable, for example, singularity. But there may be ways to know more in spite of them, for example, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation. So, science keeps on trying. Science does not indulge in prophecy about the extent we will be able to know or not know.
3. All phenomena have natural causes: Seems reasonable. On what ground we should assume the opposite?
4. Nothing is self evident: We do not assume anything. We check what the idiots say. We find many of things that the idiots say are wrong and imagination only.
5. Knowledge is derived from acquisition of experience: There are reasons for their migration. And we now know a lot about those reasons.
6. Knowledge is superior to ignorance: I would have wished that people agree to this but the majority refuse to do so.

Basically science does not assume. Since asks questions and then searches for answers.
The article in reference in a news-blurb. Nothing substantial there.

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Yeah, you didn't give evidence or proof. You gave your subjective thoughts. This kind of first person subjectivity is as stupid as all other version which confuses objective with subjective. So I check and you gave no justified reasoning, evidence or proof. Indeed I check what the the idiots say.