A True Religion

A True Religion

“A true religion makes hope possible rather than despair convincing”

Religions come in all forms but essentially serve the same purpose in human’s lives. By definition, religion is “human beings’ relation to that which they regard as holy, sacred, spiritual, or divine” (Webster 1). It is commonly associated with a person’s relation to God or gods or spirits. Worshiping and following religious doctrines is a main cause for followers’ behaviors and a societies social mores and folkways. These basic religious elements prescribe different “moral conducts, right beliefs and participation in religious institutions” for followers to adhere to in order to fulfill their religious life (Britannica 1).

Through the ages there has been many different religions served the followers with the sense of a meaningful life and made “hope possible rather than despair convincing.” Even in prehistoric religions, archeologists have found remains from the Middle Paleolithic Period burial sites that consist of the “corpses accompanied by stone tools and parts of animal” that were laid in the burial site (Britannica 2). Some of the impressions of the corpses were buried with the tools in their hands, implying that they needed them in their after-life. This shows that even these primitive humans and societies had some concept of an after-life, which implies a primitive religion that the people of the Paleolithic Era.

Even the people of Mesopotamia practiced a religion of their own. The religious beliefs of the Sumerians and Akkdadians who were the earliest inhabitance in Mesopotamia followed a religion of their own. It consisted of deities that “tended to be localized, centering around the subsistence of the communi...

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... to be possible rather than despair convincing.” Religion gives direction and standards to live by and the prescribed ways to act in accordance to one’s religion. But who is say which religion is the correct one? All the religions believe that there is some force greater any worldly figure. So there is no way to determine which is the true religion until life on this earth is complete, and the final truth is seen through the eyes of God. Jesus said, “Do not judge, so that you may not be judged” (Matthew 7:1). Who is the one to determine which is the “true religion” and the correct one to follow? After all, most religions are based on some parts or aspects of the Bible and their interpretations of it. As long as the religion keeps the commandments, “you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love” (Luke 15:10).