What Is “RELIGION”, According To The Holy Bible?

By Jovantee R. Blair
01/17/2012, Tue

MANY people, “BASE” a “RELIGION” on POLITICS, MAN-MADE RELIGIONS, FALSE RELIGIONS, & INSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM RELIGIONS, but there’s one reason, why the word “RELIGION” is used in The Holy Bible.

The English word “religion”, which is generally defined as; “Belief in, worship of, or obedience to a supernatural power or powers considered to be divine or to have control of human destiny" is derived from the Latin word “religio”, which meant to respect, or care for. "RELIGION" is found only 5 times, in the King James Version of The Holy Bible, to translate, (the Old Testament was originally written mostly in Hebrew and the New Testament was written mostly in Greek).

But what does The Holy Bible say about “RELIGION”, NOT “MAN-MADE RELIGIONS” or “FALSE RELIGIONS”, but “RELIGION”, according to how GOD describes it?

Well, the best description of “RELIGION” CAN be found in the book of James, chapter 1, verses 22-27, in which it says;

22. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

23. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

24. For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

25. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

26. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

27. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

That is what “RELIGION” is, according to the book of James, chapter 1, verses 22-27, in which The Holy Bible stands by, of how James 1:22-27 just explained.

So, if someone or some people are TRULY "GIVING" their all, everyday, & TRULY "GIVING" their "BEST" to CONTINUE to “BELIEVE, to have “FAITH”, to “FOLLOW”, to "LIVE", to "SERVE", to “TRUST”, to “LOVE”, & to "OBEY" GOD & CHRIST, with all of their being, DOESN'T mean that they are “RELIGIOUS” & a part of some “RELIGION”! DIDN'T it ever OCCUR to you people, that the way that person, or those people that TRULY "GIVE" their all, everyday, & that TRULY "GIVE" their "BEST" to CONTINUE to “BELIEVE, to have “FAITH”, to “FOLLOW”, to "LIVE", to "SERVE", to “TRUST”, to “LOVE”, & to "OBEY" GOD & CHRIST have a “RELATIONSHIP” with GOD & CHRIST, but you being so “HATED” on "RELIGION" or “MAN-MADE/FALSE RELIGIONS”, that you tend to “FORGET”, that TRUE BELIEVING, TRUE FAITH, TRUE FOLLOWING, TRUE LIVING, TRUE SERVING, TRUE TRUSTING, TRUE LOVING, & TRUE OBEYING towards GOD & CHRIST is like a TRUE SPIRITUAL RELIGIOUS "RELATIONSHIP" with GOD & CHRIST & has “NOTHING” to do with any MAN-MADE/FALSE “RELIGIONS”!

So when a person, or a people have a TRUE “RELATIONSHIP” with GOD & CHRIST, they are having a TRUE “CARE” for, & a TRUE “RESPECT” for GOD & CHRIST, in regards to how “RELIGION” is defined in the second paragraph pf this not, & in James 1:22-27, of that person, or those people having a TRUE SPIRITUAL RELIGIOUS “RELATIONSHIP” with GOD & CHRIST.

And by the way, DON’T “MISTAKEN” someone TELLING you that their, or his/her “RELIGION” is TRUE, if they “FOLLOW” the MAN-MADE/FALSE “RELIGIONS” of CHRISTIANITY, CATHOLIC, BAPTIST, METHODIST, JEHOVAH WITNESS, MORMONISM, LUTHERAN, ISLAM, JUDAISM, PRESBYTERIAN, APOSTOLIC, COGIC, & MANY more, because as history has PROVEN, all these “RELIGIONS” that were named have had their, or have their “DEVOTED” members & followers “PROCLAIM” that they “BELIEVE” in, have “FAITH” in, “FOLLOW”, "LIVE", "SERVE", “TRUST”, “LOVE”, & "OBEY" GOD & CHRIST, but the WORDS that “SPEW” out of their mouths & the “ACTIONS” that they SHOW, “DECEIVE” their own hearts, in which makes their MAN-MADE/FALSE “RELIGIONS” of CHRISTIANITY, CATHOLIC, BAPTIST, METHODIST, JEHOVAH WITNESS, MORMONISM, LUTHERAN, ISLAM, JUDAISM, PRESBYTERIAN, APOSTOLIC, COGIC, & MANY more MAN-MADE/FALSE “RELIGIONS” be all in “VAIN”, because;

“If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.”-James 1:26 (KJV).

So, with all that being said up above, I’m NOT saying to “LOVE” RELIGION, but to “LOVE” RELIGION, of how it’s described in James 1:22-27, but for you to “HATE” the “RELIGION” of POLITICS, MAN-MADE RELIGIONS, FALSE RELIGIONS, & INSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM RELIGIONS.

Colossians 2:6-8 (KJV):

6. As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:

7. Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

8. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Galatians 1:6-10 (KJV):

6. I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

7. Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

8. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

9. As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

10. For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

Matthew 16:24-26 (KJV):

24. Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

25. For whosoever save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

26. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

And one lasting thing;

Contrary to popular BELIEF, CHRIST “DIDN’T” COME to ABOLISH “RELIGION”, because;
“Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.”-Matthew 5:17 (KJV)

It may seem like a small technical error, but it does make a lot of DIFFERENCE.

PEACE:)

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