What is the Ultimate Goal of (Your) Religion?

Merger/Unity with all of Reality.

To comprehend the word serenity and to know peace.

Nakosis said:

What do you think the ultimate goal is of religion?

What do you expect religion in general or your specific religion to accomplish?

How or when will you know that your religion has accomplished it's goal?

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Here is our (the Assemblies of Yahweh) mission statement that appears on our charter, The purpose for which this corporation has been formed is:

“To teach and preach the Word and sacred Name of our heavenly Father and the truth of the inspired Scriptures, to promote the interest of religion and the spread of spiritual holiness throughout the world, to assemble for worship to accomplish these beliefs and purposes and to engage exclusively in such religious, educational, and charitable purposes as are within the meaning of Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 and its regulations as they now exist or as they may hereafter be amended.”

The Assemblies of Yahweh was founded for the purpose of preaching the Truth of the inspired Scriptures to a spiritually lost world. We strive to harmonize the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, thereby achieving sound doctrine with consistency. To correct errors in doctrine we return to the original texts in which the Bible was written (as closely as we can return to the autographs). To fulfill the commandment to worship together (Hebrews 10:25), regular worship services are held in various locations, including the International Headquarters Convocation Center at Bethel, in many states of the United States, and also in foreign countries.

A major goal of the Assemblies of Yahweh is to encourage development of each individual’s spiritual character through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, so that everyone who desires to do so may qualify as a converted child of the Most High Father in heaven.

We teach the importance of the revealed, personal Name of our Father in heaven and of His Son, our Redeemer, Yahshua the Messiah. This primary scriptural doctrine, setting us apart from other religious groups today, is strongly proclaimed by the Assemblies of Yahweh. We also teach the keeping of the commandments of Yahweh and that each member should voluntarily live a strict moral life in complete submission to Yahweh’s royal Law.

We will never convert the whole world, if it would be possible we would, but our aim is to be a witness to the world of the Truth and then the end may come (Matthew 24:14) and Yahshua may set up Yahweh's kingdom on this earth.

Salam

My view:

To perish the hands of the father of the flame and the lady in red, his wife, once and for all so that there is no more Taghut and people are free from the sorcery.

To make sure there is no more Abu Lahab in this world anymore and defeat the worshippers of Iblis and free humanity from the sorcerers who misguide them and blind them to the truth.

To put end to evil and the virus Iblis has caused.

By the name of God the Compassionate, The Compassionate (intensely) may perish the hands of the Father of the Flame.

The name of God becoming more known and the light prevailing is the only way to put an end to the darkness and flame that "Abu Lahab" is the father of.

May Allah (swt) hasten this victory

By the name of God The Compassionate, the Compassionate (intensely) is the help of God and Victory if it comes.

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To make me feel complete and with no regret when I die.

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I learned a while back that lies breed more lies, which clogs the channels that enable us to navigate life effectively. They also tend to dumb us down. I think honesty is central to intelligence, so the holy spirit, the spirit of truth guides us into all truth. Im a Christian. I'm learning how to be more honest and truthful. When we get past the lies, the world will be easier to understand and therefore be easier to navigate. Honesty has a way of keeping us honest also. Legitimacy is what I'm aiming for.

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Understanding of being and purpose in this perceived reality and what lies beyond death of the body.

I'm a "none", not affiliated - fastest-growing movement out there. My goal is spiritual self-reliance for all, freedom of thought, independence, liberty.

To conquer human faults and weaknesses. That means to become a better person. Realize the dream! To liberate one's self from attachments that are not good. To master one's own vessel would probably take 1000 different life times.

To set one's affections above and beyond.

That's the purpose of my religion. It's letting go of earthly attachments while maintaining love for those of which love has given me to love.

If all fails, then at least I still have the dream of it. The best of virtues.

Nakosis said:

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Religion is a system. It does not have a goal because religion is not a person. It is a system for humans, for humans to achieve their goals through that system within that system.

Religion, human beings’ relation to that which they regard as holy, sacred, absolute, spiritual, divine, or worthy of especial reverence. It is also commonly regarded as consisting of the way people deal with ultimate concerns about their lives and their fate after death. In many traditions, this relation and these concerns are expressed in terms of one’s relationship with or attitude toward gods or spirits; in more humanistic or naturalistic forms of religion, they are expressed in terms of one’s relationship with or attitudes toward the broader human community or the natural world. (Britannica)

A religion involves a communal, transmittable body of teachings and prescribed practices about an ultimate, sacred reality or state of being that calls for reverence or awe, a body which guides its practitioners into what it describes as a saving, illuminating or emancipatory relationship to this reality through a personally transformative life of prayer, ritualized meditation, and/or moral practices like repentance and personal regeneration. [This is a slightly modified definition of the one for “Religion” in the Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion, Taliaferro & Marty 2010: 196–197; 2018, 240.]

Source: Philosophy of Religion (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

A good life here and self deification after

Nakosis said:

What do you think the ultimate goal is of religion?

What do you expect religion in general or your specific religion to accomplish?

How or when will you know that your religion has accomplished it's goal?

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There are several short term goals like peace in this life and feeding the poor.

In the long term it is to provide every person past present and future with the opportunity to live up to the potential laid out by Paul in Romans 8:
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

paarsurrey said:

What is the Ultimate Goal of (Your) Religion?

Peace within and peace without, please. Right?

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"In Islam the concept of peace is two-fold. Firstly, to be at peace with God and then, secondly, to be at peace with oneself and with the rest of the world."
Attainment of Inner Peace
Is there any harm if one achieves peace with G-d, peace in oneself and with the rest of the world, please? Right?

Regards

Nakosis said:

What do you think the ultimate goal is of religion?

What do you expect religion in general or your specific religion to accomplish?

How or when will you know that your religion has accomplished it's goal?

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I think that religions, in general, are meant to fulfill some combination of four specific goals:

1. To transmit and maintain a common system of moores
2. To build community
3. To provide an easily understandable idea of how the world works
4. To provide comfort in the face of common fears and problems such as death, poverty, etc.

For my religion specifically (Altruanism), the goal is to make the world a more caring and understandable place and to lay the groundwork for a future civilization that will construct its own afterlife, and said civilization will be sufficiently altruistic to extend that afterlife to us in the present (Via mind-machine upload and manipulation through time). So Altruanism provides for 1 and 4.

For me it's to learn all of life's lessons through reincarnation, and to join the ancestors back in the Summerlands.

Nakosis said:

What do you think the ultimate goal is of religion?

What do you expect religion in general or your specific religion to accomplish?

How or when will you know that your religion has accomplished it's goal?

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To provide a system to enable people to achieve gnosis, learn to free themselves from attachment to the material world in which we live, and ultimately after death, to return to the Lightworld whence we all came.

paarsurrey said:

"In Islam the concept of peace is two-fold. Firstly, to be at peace with God and then, secondly, to be at peace with oneself and with the rest of the world."
Attainment of Inner Peace
Is there any harm if one achieves peace with G-d, peace in oneself and with the rest of the world, please? Right?

Regards

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If I may ask, what do you mean by peace with God? What does that consist of?
I mean how do we come to be at peace with God?