RELIGION AND THEOLOGY

Religion and Theology

Religion and Theology

Who are we as human beings?

Man is a spirit with a soul and lives in a body. The Bible asserts that human beings have a natural triple. It has a spirit, soul and body. Unfortunately, it turns out that spiritual blindness and ignorance of the Scriptures which human beings are the object prevent many; including non-believers and religious, to be aware of this that we as human beings have a soul separate from our mind. The Bible describes man in several passages.

Both Islam and Christianity are monotheistic beliefs, believing in the identical god, referred to as 'Allah' by the Muslims and, 'God' by the Christians. In this sense, Islam and Christianity are considerably intertwined, appearing to come from the same beginning.

For Islam, the stories about the origin of the universe are found in their holy book, the Koran. Like the Bible, the Koran says that God created the world in six days, from starch. Christianity stories about creation are found in the first two chapters of Genesis, in its holy book, the Bible. Christianity and Islam are limited to a brief presentation of religious facts, without entering into specific of historical and theological dialogue (Durkheim, 1961).

Judaism, the religion of the Jewish people, is founded on the belief in ethical monotheism; that is, that there is only one God, omnipotent and omniscient, creator of the universe, who is just and merciful, and who commands persons to act justly and mercifully; that humanity is made in the image of God. The Jewish people base their origin and religion in the Torah, the Pentateuch or the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament), wherein Abraham is portrayed as the father of the Jewish people and the founder of their religion.

Christianity, the religious movement that grew out of the teaching and crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth two thousand years ago, has spread in a variety of forms and churches across the globe (Luckmann, 1967).

Taoism was developed from a philosophy based on the writings of Laozi, who is credited with the text Daodejing (The Book of the Way and Power, or the Way and Virtue), the essence of Taoist philosophy located there. According to Chinese legend, Laozi lived in the sixth century and, therefore, traditionally the century date the writing of the Daodejing, though according to some current research is much later. The themes of Taoism as a religion was founded in the third century

In Shintoism, the people survived and continue to live the most ancient forms of belief, such as magic, (worship of individual animals as patrons), fetishism (belief in the supernatural power of amulets and talismans). Unlike many other religions, Shinto can not be regarded as a founder, a specific person or deity. In this religion, there are - or are clear differences between humans and kami.

Why are humans on earth?

In accordance to religions, the first man in the Bible, Adam, as conscious of his spiritual nature as his physical body, communicated freely with God through ...