Cult/Religion whats the difference?
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Peace and hello
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What really is the difference, between a cult, sect or religion? Religion is just an accepted cult, a sect is a division in a main religion or cult. a cult is a collective of common beliefs that is not accpeted or seen as too extreme. Islam is a system, God's system for mankind that is free of any corruption or falsehood, that is why I chose Islam as the way to live my life. But the RELIGION based on God's true system Islam (which occurs in the Torah, the Gospel, the Qur'an and other scriptures we may have no knowledge about) has been corrupted. I used to think it hadn't and the religion based on Islam was pure but like anything that God sends to us about Him we either deny it or assign partners to Him or forbid things God did not forbid and allow things God did not allow. The quest for me is to find the truth, to live my life without hardship, surround myself with those of similar views and to worship God alone.
This is my view on religion and cults and the system of God. I believe a system is just like a system God gives to all animals, just like he tells the bee to go among the flowers, collect nectar, build honeycombs and produce honey; this is the BEE's system. Now human beings being sentient, having free will and many variations in ourselves, the system is more complex, but it exists, and this system includes worshipping God, it is Islam. All animals have their own way of worshipping God, the Bee worships God by obeying Him and following the right path. Every bee does it, because they have no choice, we have choice, but this path is the path of all who obey God.
We as humans need to follow this system to prosper. It's no good us denying our own creation saying, I am self-sufficient, I will die and turn to ash for eternity, we have science, evolution and primordial ooze, we have no need for a God! That is like a toaster turning to its creator saying, "I want to be a hairdryer! I can produce heat, why do I have to be a toaster, I can warm bread if I want, right now I want to warm hair!" Well the creator can say "excuse me I can just pull this plug and you will be no more, I made you a toaster, so serve your purpose". Its the same way for humans, we were created to worship God, many of us deny this system, like the toaster above denies its system, its own existence. This is pure arrogance and is foolish. The system is therefore as such, "You were created, You will serve me, I have sent down revelations to show you how to worship and serve Me, will you not reflect?"
I believe the system of God is very different from religion, religion is man made, there are always esoteric leaders, Imam, rabbis, priests, Popes who teach the people as if the people have no reasoning. As if they can't figure it out themselves. This is where corruption and bureaucracy comes in, people fall into ideas without thinking, they are raised that way, a social, political, emotional dictation is forced on them from birth such that their world is coloured, they can't see it any other way. This is why I turned away from God, why I denied His existence because all religion does is lead to more confusion, sectarianism, extremism, mental enslavement and oppresion. All religions are accepted cults, BUT the systems they are based on are true, the systems of the Torah, the Gospel and the Qur'an. The Qur'an being the only one not corrupted (unless translated) is God's system in its purest form, for all time. It is this that drew me to God, when I understood it is not a religion, a cult following for an esoteric group to pass judgement on other people. It is a system to benefit all mankind, to unify us, forbid what is wrong and do what is right. I belive the Qur'an is the system of GOD that has not been tainted or mutated into a religion. Does anyone have similar views or thing I am talking pure nonsense, or wants to reflect on the idea of religion and the difference I was trying to show?
an idea I came up with is look up the definitions of Religion and the definition of System see which one matches Islam more.
Peace
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Peace,
Respectfully.Why would you turn away from God, when He has given you the Quran, which you say you follow?
If you follow Quran, then you believe God and you obey him, right?God has given us a choice and i think the God has given a choice to a bee also bee has a free will, she is not a robot, she can disobey and not collect honey. She can fly away to the tree, sit there and just enjoy the view below, right?
But the bee knows that iof she does not collect honey, she will be bored, linely and will most likely die of boredom. She needs to collect the honey in order to survive. Without colelcting the honey, she will be expelled from a better life - the life with other bees, she will be outcat, she will be abandoned and no one will care. She must collect honey, if she wants to live a better life.
Let's transport this into humans
Human must pray (bee must collect honey) and follow Quran (bee must follow other bees) in order to earn a good reputation and find a soulmate in the Paradise (bee collects honey and other bee sees her and they get married and have offspring, right?)
We are told to pray for God's remmebrance, right?
God does not need me or my prayers but i need God to get into Paradise, because God tells me that this life is temporary and that a better life exists.Evidences?
The Exalted God, The Most Powerful tells me of several thing sin the Quran which later on came to be true.
If The Exalted God, The AllPowerful Creator can create an animal as small as bee and give her internal organs and brians into that small body, then i must ask this question what kind of Power, what kind of Creator is SOOOOOO Powerful that He can create such a small animal who can think and act all on its own?How can Jupiter stay in its place without falling out of its orbit?
How come God does not get burned when He created the sun?
How can sun just stand there? Float?God is Truly The Most Powerful, The Most High, The Mighty, Creator Who can Truly do anything and everything and nothing hurts Him, nothing is difficult to Him and nothing bother Him, nothing stops Him.
Glory be to God, The AllPowerful.
Glory be to God, Who gave us so many blessings.
Glory be to God, Who answers prayers.
Glory be to God, The True Originator, The Real and True Creator.
Glory be to God.Peace.
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lol read my post again, I turned away from God in the past. I found the Qur'an and that changed my views. I wasn't focusing on God and the Bee, I was focusing on the difference between cult/religion and system..
[/quote)Peace,
respectfully.Sorry, didn't see.
Thanks for correcting me.
But the way i see it, Islam is not just a religion, it's a lifestyle, our life should be made of obeying God and other things should come in 2nd.In the morning we start with a prayer, right, then comes coffee, good morning to your spouse, kids, then you go to work or school, then .... right?
Glory be to God.
Peace.