RELIGION

   WHAT DOES THE WORLD THINK ABOUT GOD?

We are living in the last days where everyone believes all they want to believe as far as the existence of God is concerned. In democratic countries, there is even the freedom of choice in terms of who people want to believe. And this is not disputed as everyone has right to region of their choice. The problem starts when it comes to chose the kind of God or a god people want to worship.

We grew up in cultural societies where we were made to believe that there are ancestors. In this form of religion we were taught that our forefathers who died a long time ago are the ones who are higher powers and they are in guard of our lives. The sacrifices are made to appease the silent people. In this instance, it is believed that the dead will shine their faces towards the living(us) and shower them with blessings. There is a lot that is done to follow this procedure including visiting the graves and sometimes go to the river to appease the dead who are living in water. This is done with much faith and assurance in so much that eve those who were in big cities because of employment are collected to attend the ceremony. After the ceremony they are sent off to their places of work with the assurance that they are blessed.

It is when they arrive in their place of work that their way of seeing things is changed. Some receive new teachings and become converted to other religions. That is where the  diversity of religion came about. The high influx of people in the cities to look for a better lifestyle. 

Now things have changed. People are free to believe what they want to believe in so much that many kinds of religious beliefs were born. We have the atheistic ideas where some people believe that there is no God at all. Some believe in their ancestors while others believe in Christ. Christians and non-Christians collide in their ideas of expressing their beliefs.

This does not come as surprise because even those who were walking with Jesus did not exactly know who He was. Some said He was John the Baptist while others said He was a prophet from old. There were those who were already convinced that He was not the son of God as He claimed to be. 

Now here are the comments made by some well known public figures whom most people are looking up to. These public figures happened to be atheists (they believe that God does not exist). Angelina Jolie once said '' there's something in every human that is Godlike so there doesn't need to be a God for me''. These words proved that she was not a religious person and rather than that she is an atheist. 

Bill Gates, the micro soft billionaire said that there is a lot that he can do on a Sunday morning rather wasting his time going to church. the question, ' does God exist appears more often in the philosophical point of view. they answer this question by saying that if  God id unable to prevent evil from happening then there is no God. 

The bible says that God is a jealous God, He is not pleased when a man makes himself a god to worship. This does not stop men from believing to their own gods. The black people believe in their ancestors and the Muslims believe in their god, so does the Indians and Chinese. In the book of ACTS Apostle Paul was amazed when he saw  strangers who spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new things. Then he stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, ''Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you'' The interesting part in this is that Paul himself was against God before he became an Apostle.  The same thing happened to the renowned atheist and philosopher, Anthony Flew who spent most of his life disputing the fact that God exists, until in 2004 where he surprised his followers by saying that God does exist after all. He died in 2011 believing in the existence of God. So, doe this mean that everyone will come to the same conclusion that there is only one God, the God of Heavens.

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