That which constitutes existence in its concreteness and in its meaningfulness, that which invests it with what it is and ought to be, is called
divine by the religious person.
Not exact matches
«god» doesn't exist and is make believe, your
religious texts were written
by human beings without any kind of «
divine inspiration» regardless of what you read in them... written
by people who thought the Earth was flat... it isn't.
With all the evidence,
religious people ought to be intelligent design (I mean god - guided evolution
by this) supporters at worst, though I would hope that after some serious thoughts on the moral paradoxes induced
by belief in the «
divine»
people would come to their senses.
I propose as that definition, realizing that it would probably exclude some of those already discussed, the following: The sacred book contains writings that purport to have been produced under
divine or extra human inspiration or impulse, and which have come to be recognized
by a substantial number of
people as the basis of their
religious faith, since it is regarded
by them as the authentic revelation of God to them and to the world.
Such «
religious intuitions» are the «somewhat exceptional elements of our conscious experience» that Whitehead seeks to elucidate as evidence for God's consequent experience of the world.9 Only a living
person experiencing a whole series of
divine aims, sensitive to the way in which these shift, grow, and develop in response to our changing circumstances can become aware of their source as dynamic and personal, meeting our needs and concerns.10 Jesus, full of the Spirit, knew God personally in this intimate way, until these aims were taken from him in the hour of his deepest need, when he experienced being forsaken
by God on the cross.
If to be
religious means to imitate the
divine, then gentleness is a virtue to be cultivated
by the
religious person.
Over time, these manifold and varied uses of the term —
divine, secular and
religious — all converged, and both God and man came to be signified
by the very same term,
person.
The basis of the Christian contribution is the faith that the crucified Jesus Christ
by mediating
divine forgiveness to all humans in the solidarity of their sinfulness, has made possible mutual forgiveness between
persons and
peoples and has brought into being in history a new human communion (Koinonia), transcending all
religious, cultural and natural diversities and divisions.
I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause
people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells
people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of
divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported
by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a
person's
religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.