How can a true
religion change with the times?
Not exact matches
What holds more value to you: the words of your
religion's founder and most prominent followers -LRB-- words that came straight from God), or laws that constantly
change with times and are decided by people who don't follow your
religion?
to Jake, in every era or
times in the past, humans have different perception of reality, because our knowledge improves or
changes toward sophistication, For example during the
times of Jesus, there was no science yet as what we have today, since the
religion in the past corresponds to their needs, it is true for them in the past, but today we already knew many new ideas and facts, so what is applicable in the past is no longer today, like
religion, we have also to
change to conform
with todays knowledge.The creation or our origin for example is now explained beyond doubt by science as the big bang and evolution is the reason we become humans, is in contrast to creation in the bibles genesis,.
the purpose why God allowed multiple
religions to evolve and exist in the distant and even today is because our minds intellectual capacity has increased tremendously after we became civilized about 10,000 years go.Earlier when we were hunter gatherers our priorities was just to find food to survive, Then we became more knowlegible and our concern includes the intelle tual need to understand the meaning and purpose of our existence, so God allowed the founding and establishment of many
religions by humans to conform
with their intellectual, social and educational development, Since this is not static, it contiually diversify and
change to conform
with their
times of existince, History showed that this is continuesly improving, so the future expects
changes towards Panthrotheism in accordance to His will.
In contrast, traditionalists have reacted to
change by reemphasizing orthodox religious beliefs, stressing historic religious practices, and identifying
with religious movements working to maintain or restore the «old -
time religion.»
As far as
religions go, Buddhism is by far a superior set of ideologies that
change with time and see the TRUTH.
The
religions that survive are the ones that work and can
change with the
times.
Looks like the
religions are committed to
changing with the
times, makes sense.
If
religion can not move
with power and authority to bring about the
changes necessary, it can at least whisper subversion and at the same
time hold the vision high for those able to see it.
The real problem is that we simply don't have
time to address AGW by making
changes to fundamental institutions of human cultures, whether those be education, or
religion, or government, or economics, or the pathological anthropocentrism that at present pervades them all, and then waiting for a few generations for those
changes to transform all the various human societies around the globe into ones that are prepared to fully recognize and deal
with the problem.