Thinking

By: L Jones

How do you make the right choice, when all the choices are correct and all the choices are incorrect? That’s the dilemma, paradox or whatever you want to call it when dealing with religions.

So, before I attempt to define who God is, I may first want to investigate exactly what religion is.  Dictionary.com defines religion as a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.

The first thing that needs to be noted is that religion is a man made coping strategy to help deal with the unknown. It’s not based off of the word of God, but simply the thoughts of man. It’s funny, because I can hear lots of you out there now saying, well what about Jesus? If you look closely at the Bible, Jesus’ teachings are mainly about how to live a just life on Earth. The things that Jesus talked against were foolish man-made laws, which were taught and enforced as if they were laws of God. 

So, who is God? I was reading another website and got this answer: “God is the mathematical formula, which runs the universe.” Alex Chui.   A mathematical formula? Now that’s interesting. If you found out today that after all those years of praying and reading the scriptures of man that God was just a mathematical formula, what would you do tomorrow? I do not believe this is so, but I do believe there is some truth in this statement…