Why believe traditional religion? Why should anyone believe that traditional religion is in anyway effective in today’s world? Statistics indicate there are the same number of divorces, drug users, abusers, etc. in the Christian church as there is without. What message is being preached from the pulpit today? What happened to morals, values and relationships? It is obvious that what is being preached from the pulpit is not being practiced in the pew.

Christianity is in decline Today the Christian religion is in decline while Islamic and new age religions flourish. Author Samuel Huntington predicts that Islam will overtake Christianity early in the 21st century. By the year 2025, Islam will have 5% more adherents than will Christianity. It appears the Christian community has become comfortable in their position and refuses to address the issue. Meanwhile, the U.S. Center for World Mission estimated in 1997 that Christianity's total number of adherents is growing at about 2.3% annually. This is approximately equal to the growth rate of the world's population. Islam is growing faster: about 2.9% and is thus increasing its market share. At this rate, Islam would surpass Christianity as the world's main religion by 2023 CE.

People are conditioned to fail People have become conditioned to preachers flaying They are as children who have been repeatedly whipped. They know they are going to be beaten but they keep coming back because they are afraid of the consequence if they don’t. Churches have become social clubs that do nothing to proliferate the word of God.

Because God is intangible, invisible and elusive people accept a religious ideology rather than seeking God’s truths. They have stopped seeking and now allow their fate to be directed by someone else.

What of God’s creation? What was God ’s reasoning for mankind? The scriptures say that God created the heavens and mankind for His pleasure and that He is in the process of revealing Himself to Himself. Because man was formed from the ground and the essence of God placed inside, he has become as God. Man believes he is God and can create his own environment and that he controls his destiny. The truth is, he can but an even greater truth is, every thing is of and is God.

Can man survive? Man manipulates while God creates. Religions preach man’s independence and man’s relationship with God. They preach that people are on some sort of equal footing with God and that we can indeed have a relationship. The have the mindset that they can elevate themselves to God’s level or bring God down to their level. This is a dangerous way of thinking and nothing can be further from the truth.

As long as man believes himself/herself to be an individual capable of relying on self for guidance then he/she will forever be separated from God. God and man are not two separate entities. Man/woman are God experiencing Himself through an intelligent life form.

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