(CP-5) Religious Knowledge: The Format

Religious knowledge is the theological proof of the Risen Lord Jesus Christ.  He lives today, enabling us who believe to access the Trinity God.  And, what we believers gain is religious knowledge, which is unavailable to the un-believer. 

This knowledge is personal--it's for me!  It is directed to the believer himself. It is knowledge that the believer should use in his day-to-day activities.  It could make him rich--in this the Texan preachers are right about, whenever the believer wants to make riches his goal--it could lengthen his life, and so forth.  The believer in God through Jesus Christ as his access--sets the use of the religious knowledge he gains to his own advantage.

Since I live this knowledge daily and for the past upteen years, it is readily something I can discuss.  In the Bible, it first appears in Genesis Chapter 1 verse 31 "and behold it was very good!"  After God made the heavens and the earth and made man in God's image, He declares, "it is good!"

This is also evaluative knowledge.  We work 6 days a week and on the seventh, we rest to look it all over, to see how far we've progressed in just one week!  You know, going to church. a truly foreign environment, enables us to get away from the everyday and to evaluate how we're doing.  Performing prayers enables us to get to the spiritual realm and away from the routines.  In the spiritual, we come as penitents knowing we could have done better and using this moment of reflection to seek God's power to do better henceforth. It's that simple.  But if you don't do that evaluation, from the Christian viewpoint, you're depriving yourself of an invaluable tool for personal growth.

You can't always keep going and going.  You've got to take stock of how you're doing toward the goals you have set for yourself.  Sunday morning, in church, is the time for evaluating your performance, even as God did after crating the world.  The environment is set for the evaluation process.

Let me take today as an example from my life.  I've got worlds of things I'm involved in and some of them could be important.  But I took the day off, though I didn't go to church, and lying in bed reflected on how I'm doing, and I prayed a lot and just got away from everything mundane.  I didn't leave the house until after 6 PM, then only to get groceries.  Nevertheless, in those hours of complete solitude, I rehearsed what I've been doing recently and took stock of myself.  As a Christian, that always implies what St. Paul called "edification--"  how am I helping my fellow man to live better by what I am doing.  Sure, I saw I could have done better and I've learned to do better!

In New Age Philosophy, it's the third eye, the one that knows what's really going on.  But whatever it's called every human being needs to use it as a guide-post.  God bless you!!

I've introduced you to religious knowledge; and I know you'll have a lot of questions about it.  It's the most vital aspect of our faith.  I can only get you started on your religious journey.  It's up to you to follow through.  Now, I must go on to the meta-elements of religious knowledge.

One more thing in this introduction.  The  human body is the temple of God.  So, I can approach the Lord Jesus Christ today--you won't  believe it; but I can't believe it, it's just the religious experience.  But the fact  is we're just humans; and  we're not rational!  And I welcome the religious tune-up of today!  It got me to know what I must do, so off I go, refreshed!.