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DAVID AND YVONNE BRITTAIN.
Organized religion can often be a barrier that may prevent
belief in God by a person of intelligence. In each facet of my life, I am
expected to use my intelligence, logic, and rational thought to either accept
or reject the ideas that are offered to me by the people that I meet. If I try
to apply that same logic and rational thought when faced with established
religious belief systems, priests and followers of those religious belief
systems then regard me as a skeptic, an agnostic, an atheist or a heretic.
For
example: If a man offered to sell the
To
a person of average intelligence, already this raises many questions, for
example: If I read a copy of this very special holy book, I find that not only
the prophets but also the apostles as well as many other people, have written
and re-written this holy book. This means that the man believes and also
expects me to believe:
(1)
That a God (who
is not physical) speaks to prophets who are physical.
(2)
That the prophets
had enough intelligence to be able to fully comprehend what God said.
(3) That the prophets agreed with, and
accurately wrote with complete honesty, exactly what God told them?
(4)
That this same
accuracy and honesty has been used ever since by everyone that has re-written
or reprinted the holy book, but was not spoken to by God.
It
is a well-known fact that tiny, unintentional errors of translation, grammar,
and punctuation will completely alter the intended meaning so that it means
something totally different. It is also a well-known fact that during the many centuries
since they were written, the holy books have been distorted, deleted, and
altered in meaning for political purposes.
Very
few people would deny that much valuable and helpful knowledge and advice is
contained in the holy books. But if we study the holy books we find that they
are simply compilations of what other men believe that God said to yet other
men. For me this is not enough, because here a logical question enters my
brain. The question is this. What is the difference between the prophets of the
holy books and ME? If God spoke directly to the prophets (who were simply human
beings like me) there should be no reason to suppose that God will not speak
directly to me. So now we have another question to answer.
Of
all mankind why did God speak to these men? Maybe the answer is that each of
those prophets went in search of God. Most of mankind does not search for God
because most of mankind is content to believe what other men tell them about
God. But what other men tell them is based on assumptions that are not
provable. But those assumptions, through very ancient tradition, have been
given the status and authority of proven fact. This places me in the same
quandary as the prophets of past ages. If I cannot rely on what other men tell
me about God, where must my personal search for God begin? The only place I can
search is inside myself, but immediately I find difficulties that I must
conquer before my search can commence.
What
are these difficulties? They are my emotions that I feel but I don’t
understand, my fears, my doubt of myself, my tendency to compare and regard
myself as better or worse than other men. Inside me is the training I received
as a child; instilled into me by parents who loved me, and also instilled into
me by family relations, friends, schoolteachers, and priests. All of this early
training was benevolent and was intended to help me to conform to the preferred
status quo of modern civilisation. But the status quo is always based in
consensus opinion. We could say that if the majority of people believe
something is true then individually each person will believe it is true, not
because it is the truth, but because everyone he or she knows believes it is
the truth. Exactly the same system of reliance on majority belief is used with
established religions.
During
its formative years a child is encouraged by parents to believe what the priest
teaches the child about God. The child loves and trusts the parents, and so
will believe what they believe. When the child grows to be an adult, usually he
or she will continue to believe in God even though that belief is not based in
personal experience of God. The situation as I have described it is typical of
all religions, and is also typical of mankind. We can compare this situation to
another situation where we adults teach a child that sugar is sweet, but we
never give the child the chance to taste sugar. The child believes sugar is
sweet because we believe it. But the child and also we adults do not “KNOW” that
sugar is sweet. Why? Simply because we, the parents have never tasted sugar,
but we believe sugar is sweet because the priest read it in his holy book.
Maybe
now you can understand some of the difficulties to be faced as I begin my
personal search for God. So much of what I was taught as a child helped me to
fit into this familiar world and helped me to find physical comfort and
physical security. But God isn’t physical, and so what I was taught cannot aid
my search for God. Established religions taught me that God created me, and
that I am a child of God, and always will be a child of God. Religion failed to
teach me “WHY” God created me. Why did a perfect non-physical God create an
imperfect physical “Me”? When a child is born to parents, what do those parents
expect of the child?
The
parents expect the child to eventually grow to adulthood. The child is expected
to grow in size and intelligence to become the equal of the parents. The
parents do not expect the child to always remain as a child that must always be
dependent on its parents. What does God expect of God’s children? Does God
expect us to eternally remain as dependent children, or to eventually evolve to
become independent Gods? Why do I exist? This is the purpose of my personal
search for God. The answers I need are inside me. The answers you need are
inside you. Each of us is linked directly to God. In meditation each of us can
develop that intuitive link and ask for those answers. We will only receive
those answers when we enter our own private silence and are prepared to wait
and to listen, and to learn. God knows already what you want and so you don’t
have to pray. You just have to forget all that you have been taught by men so
that with an open and flexible mind you can listen to God, just as the prophets
listened to God. Why ask a priest to telephone God for you when already you
have your own telephone inside you?
If
this article has been helpful to you and you wish to know more, please feel
welcome to contact
David
and Yvonne Brittain
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