No 1220 of Living Life Series 1
In the choice of a religion, do you want the freedom to relate to God and saints the way you think fit, at your own time and target. Do you want to decide what you should know?
Such freedom is most liberating. There is no one to look over your shoulders. There is no coercion or peer pressure.
In fact the very need for peer pressure can put people off. It is good that others check on you so that you will not stray. But the flipside of the coin is that we can trust God to know what is best for us.
Why need peers in a house of God to exert pressure on how we should think, pray and how to interpret the holy texts.
That seems daunting. God is never be a control freak at all. In fact God and saints are far from being imposing.
How come then men must do that? Men are less trusting and even want to act for God and saints. If they are right, then there is no need for denominations and off shoots in the form of new houses of God.
The one who treasures freedom can go to God anytime, anywhere, any house of God and saints and he does not even need clearance from human peers to do so.
In fact he wants to have no interference whatsoever and is pleased that God gives him rope to do in his own way and has the choice of how simple or elaborate he wants to do so.
There is no tithe - no need to have peers to tell him how much he must contribute. He does not need to please men before he can please God and saints.
In fact, the reality is that God and saints are beyond the need to be pleased. It is men who want to be pleased by God.
It is men who make God less God than God should be. Isn't this ironical? But religions where men take a strong stand and exert peer influence seem to thrive better upfront. That seems so and without this organised religion, religion will not have hold on men.
Obviously we need to have this but for peer pressure, how much is too much and how little is too little. Perhaps the choice is left to the individual. Perhaps it is just fad and fads will always come and go.
The near to God may be far to God and those considered far from God just because they do not give in to peer pressure may well be near to God. Didn't the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 wants us to reflect on this?
Peer influence is both good and not good in religion. God gives freewill but men of God want to curtail freewill. They think they are doing great service for God and men. They want to be counted as doing great service to God and men.
Is peer control a necessity at all in religion? Do God need us to tell others what to do? There is both the yes and no in the answer. Men and certainly not God is the problem in religion.
No wonder the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says the problems of men are many and plentiful. Often men cannot solve their own problems and wants to tell others how to do so. They give more problems to other men. Forgive them for they know not what they do.
Such freedom is most liberating. There is no one to look over your shoulders. There is no coercion or peer pressure.
In fact the very need for peer pressure can put people off. It is good that others check on you so that you will not stray. But the flipside of the coin is that we can trust God to know what is best for us.
Why need peers in a house of God to exert pressure on how we should think, pray and how to interpret the holy texts.
That seems daunting. God is never be a control freak at all. In fact God and saints are far from being imposing.
How come then men must do that? Men are less trusting and even want to act for God and saints. If they are right, then there is no need for denominations and off shoots in the form of new houses of God.
The one who treasures freedom can go to God anytime, anywhere, any house of God and saints and he does not even need clearance from human peers to do so.
In fact he wants to have no interference whatsoever and is pleased that God gives him rope to do in his own way and has the choice of how simple or elaborate he wants to do so.
There is no tithe - no need to have peers to tell him how much he must contribute. He does not need to please men before he can please God and saints.
In fact, the reality is that God and saints are beyond the need to be pleased. It is men who want to be pleased by God.
It is men who make God less God than God should be. Isn't this ironical? But religions where men take a strong stand and exert peer influence seem to thrive better upfront. That seems so and without this organised religion, religion will not have hold on men.
Obviously we need to have this but for peer pressure, how much is too much and how little is too little. Perhaps the choice is left to the individual. Perhaps it is just fad and fads will always come and go.
The near to God may be far to God and those considered far from God just because they do not give in to peer pressure may well be near to God. Didn't the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 wants us to reflect on this?
Peer influence is both good and not good in religion. God gives freewill but men of God want to curtail freewill. They think they are doing great service for God and men. They want to be counted as doing great service to God and men.
Is peer control a necessity at all in religion? Do God need us to tell others what to do? There is both the yes and no in the answer. Men and certainly not God is the problem in religion.
No wonder the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says the problems of men are many and plentiful. Often men cannot solve their own problems and wants to tell others how to do so. They give more problems to other men. Forgive them for they know not what they do.
