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Any ideas how it evolved? From worshipping sun wind to current beliefs ? There is very little documentation |
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@obi_jon | 22 May 17 | |
Religion and evolution, 2 words that aren't usually used in the same sentence. You can't really say the 'e' word around religious people at all, they don't like it when confronted with something that can clearly be proved with evidence, they get all mad and start talking nonsense about magic apples and talking snakes and stuff.
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@shadow27 | 22 May 17 | |
Somewhere in the transition from beast to human is where it evolved. Some shamanic traditions reveal how I believe it really snowballed, the consumption of certain substances having psychoactive properties perhaps (some of which we may have adapted to since then). The birth of our consciousness, our ability to have a sense of wonder about the universe.. all are linked together.
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@shadow27 | 22 May 17 | |
The accumulated flotsam of traditions, rituals and stories passed down around campfires over countless millennia. That's another way to think of the origins of religion. The human experience, as seen through the distorted lens of nascent self awareness.
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@tsi | 25 May 17 | |
ACTS 17:22-24 Then Paul stood up before the Areopagus and said, Men of Athens, I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with the inscription: To an unknown God. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands... Documentation is there, except that people nowadays are not well read and only want to know what they know. There have been a number of contributors in the evolution of religion, among them influential thinkers, philosophers, religious leaders, teachers, disciples, and missionaries. Whereas most people are religious in one way or the other, people have often expressed their beliefs in the existence of supernatural beings and the afterlife in the context of their respective cultures. In fact the belief in the afterlife predominates in almost all religions, but the nature of the supernatural being and perhaps ways of worship keep on evolving in some religions. From the belief in many gods to a belief in one God. From the worship of the creations to the worship of the creator. |
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@obi_jon | 25 May 17 | |
Belief in an afterlife stems from an innate fear of death and the unknown, manifesting itself in the hope that there is something else after this life. It's easier for some people to believe that there is, rather than confront the possibility that there isn't.
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@tsi | 26 May 17 | |
@ obi_jon - 25.05.17 - 10:08am Belief in an afterlife stems from an innate fear of death and the unknown, manifesting itself in the hope that there is something else after this life. It's easier for some people to believe that there is, rather than confront the possibility that there isn't. Just as it is easier for you to believe that there isn't, rather than confront the possibility that there is. You may also want to believe that the Earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago and choose to ignore an important event which only happened 2 thousand years ago. Jesus Christ lived, died and was raised from the dead 2 thousand years ago. A clear testimony that there's life after death. It only takes faith. Hebrews11:1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. John3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Romans8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death. |
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@shadow27 | 26 May 17 | |
Religion isn't JUST about the afterlife though, is it? It's about how you live your life while you are here, how you fit into the greater scheme of things, how all things began etc.
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@shadow27 | 26 May 17 | |
Think about Australian indigenous folk for instance. Dreamtime stories are not just stories about their ancestors or magical beings in the sky, many stories are ways of describing how the land formed around them. It's like a map of the landscape in this respect, passed down by word of mouth.
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@terrydactyl | 26 May 17 | |
@ tsi - 26.05.17 - 05:40am Just as it is easier for you to believe that there isn't, rather than confront the possibility that there is. You may also want to believe that the Earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago and choose to ignore an important event which only happened 2 thousand years ago. Jesus Christ lived, died and was raised from the dead 2 thousand years ago. A clear testimony that there's life after death. It only takes faith. Hebrews11:1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. John3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Romans8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death. There's no evidence that Jesus Christ even existed at all. |
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@endemic | 26 May 17 | |
@ terrydactyl - 26.05.17 - 10:46am There's no evidence that Jesus Christ even existed at all. There's a ton of evidence! |
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