The Truth, Religions And Holy Books
Always let every assessment of yours
be guided by on the Holy Spirit.
By
The Man Who Saw God Face To Face
Raphael Okechukwu Nweze
Many Of The Reverend Ministers Are Feasting On The Ignorance Of The Masses
Humanity should know that at times, leaders - disciples, priests and ministers - do change the true teachings in their writings, meetings and speeches, usually for their own personal gain. Often, they would edit or rewrite scriptures, which act is an abomination before the Almighty. For example, the Ten Commandments as being taught today by many churches are man-made version of he original given by God.
History books are sometimes misleading because human understanding often distorts what happened. The distortion gives room for the all the legends you hear about. Legends lead one into wrong ways, because they are not true. They are statement of realities as misunderstood and narrated by the spiritually ignorant humanity. And most of the legends are not even close approximations of what actually took place.
The general public should know that on several occasions in the past, some trusted individuals, including leaders, priests and ministers, who pretended to be the representatives of the Gods, altered sayings and wrote in such ways that their own powers might be increased – to protect their positions of money, area of influence or defend their ignorance.
Always remember that the Holy Spirit, not the holy books has the comprehensive record, because only the Holy Spirit the Comprehensive Repository of Knowledge. For accurate information and true knowledge, the best thing a man should do is to go to the spiritual record of the past, the present, and the future. This is the store of knowledge of all that has ever happened in the world. The history books only gave their accounts according to man’s perspectives, often distorted for one reason or another. Hence, what you have learned in classes is not always true, but has been altered in its recording to please the king or dictator in power at the time of writing. Investigate the trial and burial records of Jesus, you would discover that so many conspiracies and falsifications went on against the true realities.
For many years, various committees sat to edit, delete and alter passages which did not please them. The result was that humanity lost the path of Truth, and therefore became spiritually misguided and blind. Today, the evidences are quite clear. One is that the teachings of the religions are contradictory, instead of re-enforcing each other. If they were teaching the Truth, their teachings can only confirm each other. Two, there are so many copies of the same holy book, each different from the other in several ways, when they suppose to be saying the same thing. The Bible as an example, has American Standard Version, King James Version, Jerusalem Bible, Good News Bible, Revised Standard Version, Catholic Version, Scorffield Reference Bible, etc. eventually, the truth is distorted into legends, which are spread by priests, who spiritually blind. And so it happened that the priests, who should have been assisting the development of humanity, are actively hindering it. And religion became a game of politics, a tool for mass persecution, which things never occurred in the heart of God.
And the misleading leaders, priests and ministers would unite to misinform the public, who normally join them to persecute reformers sent to the world by God. At least, it happened to Jesus, Moses and Daniel.
Such God-sent reformers, including reformers, scientists, mystics and leaders, who live ahead of their civilization hope that people would find new ideas and teachings acceptable or at least believable. Where people do not find it believable, it may be that they have not yet reached the necessary stage of evolution. However, humanity should bear in mind that once a master soul comes to them teaching something new, the time is either due or overdue for such teachings. In many cases, the light-bearer meets and suffers unnecessary frustrations and oppositions. It should not be so, because the society even pays dearly in future and in the subsequent life times for such negligence or non-compliance.
Many of the present day priests only seems to have been trained to appear bold enough in public and to lord it over the teeming congregations. They seem to know only how to present a fresh set of demands: more churches, more food, more money, more services, more young men and women for the Temple services. Generally, they lack the salt of life, which is the true knowledge of the things of the spirit. They do not have spiritual knowledge, wisdom and experience. How can they be lacking in the very service they are expected to render to the society? It is amazing. Also, it is quite disappointing. That is why things are getting worse and the evil spirits, demons, mermaids, ghosts, witches and black energies are having a free day, destroying lives and fortunes with impunity. Every reverend minister, irrespective of denomination, must start afresh from the beginning by learning Spiritual Science.
The more a man's spirituality is the less his worldly possessions. Not so with majority of the current religious leaders, who are always silently fighting and competing for political power and prestige, struggling over the gains of the world, while giving lip-service to the Scriptures.
All true religions should work together to establish a state of universal harmony. The man should be trained to first attend to the needs of others, irrespective of religions or status, for in serving others is one’s prosperity ensured in the heavenly realms. And those who discriminate against members of other religions or people of other nations are spiritually engaging themselves in self-stagnation. This is the simple truth, a law of nature.
Only the humble ones can easily go into the kingdom. What do I mean by the humble ones? Those with open mind, who are ready to consider and accept the truth in its simplicity.
Bear The Following Points About Religion In Mind:
- Religion is a very necessary thing, indeed; and It is absolutely necessary.
- It is absolutely essential that humanity have a religion which can impose spiritual discipline on masses.
- Undoubtedly, Without religion people would be worse than wild animals.
- Without religion people would lack the voice of conscience, which guides them in the paths of life.
- It does not really matter whether a person is a Hindu, Buddhist, Moslem, Christian, or Jew.
- What is important is that all men know and practise the Truth.
- Unfortunately, majority of the religions and their leaders are far away from the Truth. That is why the religions are contradicting themselves and fighting against one another.
- When they know the Truth, there shall be peace and love among mankind.
- Then, they would know and practise the same thing, irrespective of their religions.
- For the time being, much of the religions are nothing but the multiplicity of idolatry, occasioned by spiritual blindness and unnecessary madness.
- Here on Earth, most of the people are very much like children in a school.
- A school has several class rooms, and a student is expected to move through the classes. But, out of selfishness and religious politics, the churches hold people captives by making them ordinary members.
- People are denied the necessary freedom and power of independent thinking, which are essentials to their spiritual growth and maturity.
- God is there as the Supreme Being. We may worship Him in many different ways, but so long as we worship Him in spirit and in truth.
- If there were no religions, there would be anarchy, there murders, and anything can happen. Imagine the atrocities committed in the name of religion. How much more it would have been if there were no religions at all! Religion ensures that men are kept in order by discipline, by spiritual and physical discipline.
- However, the world today greatly needs a return to true religion, not any religion but a religion that can honestly teach people the Truth about God and life.
- One problem with religion is that most of the time, people are very selfish in their prayer points. Always do this or that for me. They hardly think of what they can do for God or for others. Prayer should be for the good of others, for giving thanks unto God, or should consist of a statement of what you want to do for others.
- Learn to pray like Solomon, for the strength and wisdom to bring help or serve others.
- A true religion is something which we LIVE. It is the standard of conduct which guide humanity in the paths of righteousness.
- The unfortunate thing is that majority do not live their religions. They profess with their mouths, but act to the contrary especially in transactions and service to others. Majority are playing hypocrites.
- You may ask, “Is any one religion is superior to another?” you should know that no religion is better than the man who professes that religion. Everybody should seek for the truth, and not religion or church. The real problem now is that people are lazy and do not want to search out the truth. They prefer to accept and believe any legend presented to them, which legends are like folktales, which are spiritually of no use. There is only one truth waiting for mankind to know. It is quite unfortunate that selfishness, ignorance and craze for power mislead people into all kinds of man’s inhumanity to man, all in the name of religion.
- The world, religions and churches should recognize the fact that life is personal to each one of us. Each person has a different purpose to achieve on earth. It is the duty of the religions and government to help people achieve their respective purposes.
- Each person sees things differently, even in the same religion. While group fellowship is necessary, the churches should accommodate individual differences, likes and dislikes. This does not mean to give room for all kinds of immorality, indecency or unholiness.
- Another question people ask is “Is it right for a person to change his religion, by adopting a different religion?” The truth is that people change religion because they are searching for the truth. Provided that your new religion brings nearer to God and makes the truth clearer to you, you can change religion. Otherwise, people should not quarrel because of religions. Instead, seek the truth about God and life. And this truth may not be where you think or according to what you have been taught.
- Obviously, some believers have all sorts of unresolved doubts and conflicts beneath the surface. The result is sometimes not satisfactory.
- To succeed, one should ask for understanding, for assistance, for guidance.
- Definitely, correct adherence to one's religion provides adequate and excellent spiritual discipline. However, the real problem world wide is that most of the religious leaders are ignorant of the spiritual realities of life, which are indeed the truth about life. They lack spiritual knowledge, experience and wisdom. They end up producing no spiritual development or growth of their members. Instead, they are busy doing the wrong thing, which is competing for membership and boasting of their great numbers and connections. They are like the parable of the foolish children who are busy struggling for the container, while the only wise child among them takes the contents and walks away. All should study Spiritual Science. How can a reverend teach about Spirit (God) when he does not know anything about spirit? Besides, most what they already know are biased, lopsided and incomplete. That is why majority are stagnant (standstill) and complacent (unworried).
- Salvation is a personal engagement, because God has direct relationship with every thing. Whoever wants to succeed must seek for the Truth, and continue to search UNTIL HE FINDS IT. There is no other alternative. Only truth, not religion or church, can set you free.