Originally posted by galveston75 Design your religion, not a government, for mankind to follow that will help us all wether it is about the God of the Bible or a god of your imagination or of no god at all..... Why is this such a complicated question?
Because your original question was not stated in these terms. Recall you said
"A challenge for anyone. A challenge for all to design a religion that would be accepted by God and approved by him....
...But the catch is..........for God to accept this it has to be pure with no influ[e]nce from anything he condems or hates such as paganistic beliefs"
This alone explicitely rules out *any* god of a person's imagination in that we must exclude from discussion all hypothetical gods do not hate paganistic beliefs.
Furthermore I argue it is implicit that you mean 'Bible God' (and even if this is not the case it is certainly explicit that there should be only *one* such "God" ).
Originally posted by ua41 I'd tell them to stop bastardizing any qualities we associate to god through our own biases and interpretations (that includes any cross reference with any scriptures or holy texts). Encourage working for each other, unity, communal solutions to problems, tolerance and respect because that's what your god would really want, galveston, instead of bickering over small minute details that you guys probably have wrong anyway
Originally posted by menace71 #1Ok honestly My religion would be pure pleasure. Beer women drugs rock n roll !! No consequence for any of my actions. There you have it.
#2 Or I would create a cult were I was the leader and it would be a sex/money cult LOL
Hot women could only get salvation if they have sex with me. The followers would have to give me money by certain dates to avoid ...[text shortened]... would get to go to heaven or at least live on the Earthy paradise. All lies however.
Manny
That sounds like every second religion I see. (The ones in the gap are full of liars!)
A challenge for all to design a religion that would be accepted by God and approved by him.
Are you saying that from all the existing religions neither one is accepted or approved by god? It would be a good start for accepting the useless of religions.