The Catalyst that is Faith (part 1)

Author: Shahid /

Faith (like hoper) comes free, easy, and in numerous forms.

I have faith... But in what?
Ok, so lets say that I have faith in a God. Say, the God Yahweh, or the Christian LORD as you Bible thumpers like to put it. What does that mean? Am I a servant to this Being? Well, if I am a creation of said being, and my sole purpose as I know it is to submit to said being, then of course I am a Servant.

But what does a Servant of Faith do?

He unwieldingly goes with God's plan, his goal for the individual and for the multitudes.
So how do we know what the plan is?

We as a people of Faith have many "texts" to ascertain this problem. We have the "Holy Bible", the "Quran", numerous Hindu and Buddhists texts, and everything in between.

Know, let me ask you, the reader, a question. Whatever your belief is, why do you believe in it?
out of fear? out of Love? out of ignorance? out of intelligence? out of just sheer blind faith?

all of these are plausable answers, and i will bet anyone that they would get similar answers if they asked random people that question.

Ok, since I am no expert on Eastern Religions (Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc) I will stick with the 3 primary montheistic religions of today.
Judaism
Christianity
Islam

All these "religions" find root in a single man; Abraham. Called by most theologions the first monotheist.

So what does that mean? that these 3 religions are the same? No
Judaism as we know today, is vastly different from what Judaism was 3000 years ago, and Christianity hasnt stayed unerroded either. Islam, though newer than the other religions, has been very unchanging within its stay as a religious force her on earth.

So none of these religions are standing up to the ravages of time? NO
So what Am I to do, a Person of Faith, if my faith is ever changing?

Well, ones faith does not have to change based on the alterations of ones "religion". In fact, Ive come to loathe the term "religion", almost as much as the term "God".

The word religion is derived from Latin "religio" (what attaches or retains, moral bond, anxiety of self-consciousness, scruple) used by the Romans, before Jesus Christ, to indicate the worship of the demons.
The origin of "religio" is debated since antiquity. Cicero said it comes from "relegere" (to read again, to re-examine carefully, to gather) in the meaning "to carefully consider the things related to the worship of gods".

So lets do without Both words for the rest of this message. "religion" will be called Phase 12, and God shall be ..GATNE

Ok, so back to the question: What does a Person of Faith do in a everchanging cloud of Phase 12?

What does a rock do in a river? The river is ever changing, ever flowing, but the Rock stays strong, yet still within the river. Sure, after a long period of time, the rock may erode just a little, but it still stands, nearly unchanged.

And this is how you should be, a rock in a river.

Ok, so now you know how to stand up in an ever changing world of Phase 12, how so you worship GATNE is such away as to not get unheaved and thrown down stream?

Research, Prayer, Congregate, talk to people within your own Phase 12 and others.

You have so much to learn, Just look around you, where you sit, reading this. What can you learn just by looking at the mundane things you see every day? Millions of particles of info...

Now, open a book, any book, preferably one that makes you think on a human level (im tired of dealing with primates)

what can you learn from this book? So much more than you probably think. Perhaps by reading this book, you will add a handful of words to your everyday vocabulary, or you may learn about peoples of other cultures or race, or maybe about the inner workings of the mind or body.

Now that i have you thinking like this, open a Bible...

..go on, it wont bite..

Now tell me, what is there to learn from this, particular book?
Its a book (whether of divine origin, or of mans quest to tough the divine) that for BILLIONS, helps man get closer to GATNE. Why is that? Its just a book...

Perhaps if you own a Qur'an, you would open it, and find the same thing, or a Tanach, or any writing pertaining to Phase 12.

Why are these books so enthralling? So educative, so important to Billions of people?

Because we are servant of GATNE, and through Phase 12, we can try and begin to understand our existance as servants.

Judaism, Christianity, Islam. They are not the same, but they are not different.

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