What is religion?
The word religion means; to be zealous for something or to engage ones energies of art, thoughts, inspiration, money, time, and love into a habit or interest.
Religion is also a human behavior, where a person engages his or her energies and strength into practicing a certain pattern of moral or immoral behaviors, to be addicted to a habit,
to find comfort, faith and purpose in life via the habits which controls one’s behaviors.
Religion is an inner ability found in all human beings, which makes people to practice rituals,
become addicted and accustomed to habits…so that they may relate their strength and energies to the spiritual energies or forces which governs the purpose of their life.
Religion is a habitual practice.
Every human being on earth has a religion which occupies and consumes most of his strength and physical energies, (some people’s religion is the addiction and obsession that they have towards their work, career, bad habits, pornography, TV shows etc…
Anything which occupies ones mindset, time, and thoughts, and also controls one’s outer behavior and actions is a religion towards that’s person’s life.
Religion is any habitual practice which has the power to draw someone´s attention from what he or she is doing, so that he may attend to its needs.
For example; a religious person will stop what he is doing, so that he may go for his prayer, when his time of prayers is at hand.
But also a person who is addicted to smoking will stop what he is doing, however important it may be, so that he may attend to the craving desire of smoking.
God’s religion:
God’s religion was originally given to Adam as it is written in the book of Genesis 2:15.
Genesis 2:15 says; Then the Lord God took the man (Adam) and put him in the garden of Eden to tend (to look after, to watch, to wait, to pray) and to also keep it (to guard, to preserve it, to cultivate it, to conduct it as a business, to plant in it, to deposit seed in it and to withdraw fruits from it, and to take care of it according to the changing seasons which were introduced by God’s presence called “Eden”).
After the fall of Adam (Adam’s sin or rebellion against God), Adam lost God’s religion, and through his fall many other religions were invented via the descendants of Adam called the “Canaanites”.
Later on in time this same religion of God was handed over into Abraham’s life by God. After a long period of time, Judah the son of Jacob, Jacob being the son of Isaac, Isaac being the son of Abraham.
Judah become the tribe of Judah, from whence we get the religion called “Judaism“.
Judaism is a Jewish religion where God’s customs, written scriptures (Torah), rituals, seasons, signs, symbols, festivals or feasts etc are still preserved today.
By Apostle A Ngabo