Spirituality vs. Religion

30. May 2009 by admin.

If you’ve ever heard the term “I’m spiritual, but not religious,” you’ve probably at some point wondered whether organized religion encumbers people’s spiritual lives by interfering with the individual’s Christian walk.  And this is a normal thing to ask.  After all, it’s absolutely true that God interacts with individuals in individual ways.

But if God proves himself through personal interaction to be morally and doctrinally inconsistent, this makes God out to be either a liar or incapable of determining truth for Himself.  Either way represents a lack of the qualities necessary to make Him worthy of ultimate righteousness and thus respect.  That, or people are talking to themselves.

So if it must be that God interacts with humans in a consistent manner, religion would be the result of many humans being impacted by Him, and interacting because of His divine revelations.  Different stances may be taken on those revelations from His word, but this doesn’t affect whether the message–with an actual intent–was actually given, if in fact it was given. Read the rest of this entry »

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