10 Religious Myths that Destroy Our Relationship with God
1.God wants us to love others more than we love ourselves.
On the contrary, Jesus invoked us to love others as we love ourselves. He didn’t say that we must give up our own good. Without a right relationship with ourselves, without knowing how to love ourselves, we won’t even have the standard by which to follow Jesus’ commandment of loving others as we love ourselves.
2.The more suffering we undergo, the more God will love us.
God is not a sadistic God who derives pleasure from our suffering. If we ever suffer, it is to be strengthened and avoid further suffering later on.
3.God hates us when we are not perfect.
More than anybody else, it is God who knows everything. He clearly knows we are not perfect yet, and that’s why He is helping us. Why allow us to be imperfect only to hate us?
4.God will send us to an eternal hell due to a technicality.
There have been many religions built by virtue of the fear of being technically disqualified from heaven. These beliefs tell us that if we fail to perform certain things exactly as God wanted it to be, we would forever be cast into hell-fire as though God tricked us, wanting us to be condemned.
5.There is a clear division between good people and bad people.
Judge not so as not be judged. This myth clearly denotes exclusivity, that only one kind of people can be good and the others have no right whatsoever to be children of God.
6.God plays favorites.
This myth tells us that God only grants favors to a favored few, that He doesn’t perform miracles for all, that He cannot or will not heal us all because He doesn’t love us all equally. That’s just not true. He makes it rain both on the just and the unjust. He makes the sun to shine not only for a few people, but for all. Karma applies to all. The Law of Attraction applies to all. Love is available to all.
7.God can’t love rich people.
Abraham, Isaac, Joseph, even Job, they have lots of material possessions. But does God hate them?
8.People will do nothing in heaven except pray, sing and play harps.
If all that God ever wanted were musicians, he’d have just enrolled us all in music schools rather than dying for us, teaching us what it is to be fully human and fully Divine.
9.Our ultimate goal is to die and qualify for heaven.
“I am the way, the truth and the life”, Jesus said. A religion that points only to death will only lead to death and forfeits the gift of life given us by God.
10.Salvation refers only to the saving of the soul.
If all that God ever wanted were souls, He wouldn’t have allowed human birth into the physical form. It would have been easier because if we were spirits, we wouldn’t have been exposed to so many temptations like lust, greed, gluttony. If God doesn’t care for our physical well-being, Jesus wouldn’t have healed the blind, the lame, and all those begging him for another chance at life.
Why don’t you check your beliefs? Where is it based? Is it really based on the unconditional love of God for all His children? What’s keeping you from forming a good relationship with God?
