THE EXISTENCE OF GOD...
By Bernard Bujold -
With the beginning of each new year, the subject that often comes to mind is whether our God will be generous to us?
According to some estimates, there are between 4,000 and 10,000 religions, churches, denominations, religious organizations, faith groups, tribes, cultures, or movements on the planet earth. They are not all equivalent in importance and especially in number of practitioners. Five of them have separated from the others over the millennia: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism. The largest religion, Christianity, is practiced by about 2.4 billion people, followed by Islam with 2 billion. The country with the largest number of practicing Christians is the United States, with a Christian population of 253 million. It is estimated that there are nearly 6 billion followers on the planet, all religions combined, out of a total population of 8 billion.
Personally, I grew up in a catholic presbytery when I was a child, but for several years now I have not been a practicing Christian, so you could say that I am among the infidels...
But I do believe in some form of God and the existential question I like to debate, both with the faithful and the unbelievers: "Is there a different God for each religion?" At the end of my discussions, I always come to the conclusion that each religion has an individual vision of God! But according to me there is only one God, a kind of universal energy for the whole universe. God cannot be exclusive to one religion! A religion is a group of people with common beliefs but God is not exclusive to a group or a doctrine.
To think that God favors one religion over another is like believing that the sun only shines for us...
And you, what is your vision of God?
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By Bernard Bujold -
With the beginning of each new year, the subject that often comes to mind is whether our God will be generous to us?
According to some estimates, there are between 4,000 and 10,000 religions, churches, denominations, religious organizations, faith groups, tribes, cultures, or movements on the planet earth. They are not all equivalent in importance and especially in number of practitioners. Five of them have separated from the others over the millennia: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism. The largest religion, Christianity, is practiced by about 2.4 billion people, followed by Islam with 2 billion. The country with the largest number of practicing Christians is the United States, with a Christian population of 253 million. It is estimated that there are nearly 6 billion followers on the planet, all religions combined, out of a total population of 8 billion.
Personally, I grew up in a catholic presbytery when I was a child, but for several years now I have not been a practicing Christian, so you could say that I am among the infidels...
But I do believe in some form of God and the existential question I like to debate, both with the faithful and the unbelievers: "Is there a different God for each religion?" At the end of my discussions, I always come to the conclusion that each religion has an individual vision of God! But according to me there is only one God, a kind of universal energy for the whole universe. God cannot be exclusive to one religion! A religion is a group of people with common beliefs but God is not exclusive to a group or a doctrine.
To think that God favors one religion over another is like believing that the sun only shines for us...
And you, what is your vision of God?
SEE PHOTOS
https://www.facebook.com/media/set?vanity=bernard.bujold&set=a.10167334177145541
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