Are religious books guides and are giving us guidance to live a life and not to meet God?

Question

As as i am concerned, i find that all religious books are giving us guidance to live a life and if we recite these books time and again and do not follow the guidelines, we shall never meet the man standing before us and at the same we shall never meet God which is in our mind.

Answer 1

Oh, you WILL meet God alright!  (It does depend on where your 'books' get their 'sources' though.)  If any of those books did not come out of The Holy Bible then you are just reading fiction and lies.  (Check out one of Ravi Zacharias' books and I garauntee you will be taught the right way!!)

Answer 2

Religious books are there just to lead us on the right track. These books tells us of those facts which are unknown and that make us aware and can live our life in a good way and can understand the real meaning of life and that can lead the path to god. Actually god is always with us as he is omnipresent.

Answer 3

Get your questions right, one by one, if you really care to understand and receive answers.

Any religious book or person represent an approach to a basic  question, about the life. Guidance comes from everywhere, not only from religious scriptures, provided you seek it.

Answer 4

Yes...I had a near death experience when I was 6. I am here to tell you GOD is real!

Answer 5

Yes, read your religious books and take the meaning on your own as normally nobody can explain it to you and you will find lot more in them than what you are thinking of.

Answer 6

You should really be on the opposite end of this question.  Then maybe you would see why we are on here: for entertaining questions such as this.  They keep me laughing.

Answer 7

All humans are going to meet God to face the penalty and reward of what they did in this life.

So, meeting God is not the problem. Meeting God so that we only get rewards from Him and not Punishment is important. And the Holy Quran guide us so that we meet God while He is pleased with us.

Answer 8

That's a fairly accurate description of "religious books". It's not an accurate description of the Bible.

http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/divine.htm

The Divine Inspiration

of the

Bible

by Arthur W. Pink

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Table of Contents

About This Book

Title

Introduction

Chapter One: There Is a Presumption in Favor of the Bible

Chapter Two: The Perennial Freshness of the Bible Bears Witness to its Divine Inspirer

Chapter Three: The Unmistakable Honesty of the Writers of the Bible Attests to its Heavenly Origin

Chapter Four: The Character of its Teachings Evidences the Divine Authorship of the Bible

Chapter Five: The Fulfilled Prophecies of the Bible Bespeak the Omniscience of its Author

Chapter Six: The Typical Significance of the Scriptures Declare Their Divine Authorship

Chapter Seven: The Wonderful Unity of the Bible Attests its Divine Authorship

Chapter Eight: The Marvelous Influence of the Bible Declares its Super-Human Character

Chapter Nine: The Miraculous Power of the Bible Shows Forth That its Inspirer Is the Almighty

I. The Power of God's Word to Convict Men of Sin.

II. The Power of God's Word to Deliver Men From Sin.

III. The Power of God's Word Over the Human Affections.

Chapter Ten: The Completeness of the Bible Demonstrates its Divine Perfection

Chapter Eleven: The Indestructibility of the Bible Is a Proof that its Author Is Divine

Chapter Twelve: Inward Confirmation of the Veracity of the Scriptures

Chapter Thirteen: Verbal Inspiration

Chapter Fourteen: Application of the Argument

I. We Need to Seek God's Forgiveness.

II. It Is the Final Court of Appeal.

III. It Is the Ultimate Standard for Regulating Conduct.

IV. It Is a Sure Foundation for Our Faith.

V. It Has Unique Claims Upon Us.

Answer 9

God is omnipresent.Read John 5:39-40.YOU need to pray to receive Christ into your heart.

http://www.needGod.com  

Answer 10

God which is in the body, soul, and spirit is important.  If we know God then only we can do His desires.  If we have God only in the mind, action will not take place unless in the body.  God wants deeds not just thinking of doing. Religious books which give us God's words, His desires etc are important especially from the creation to the end of the world.

Answer 11

The Hindu Concept of "Creation"

The discoverers of these laws are called Rishis, and we honor them as perfected beings. I am glad to tell this audience that some of the very greatest of them were women. Here it may be said that these laws as laws may be without end, but they must have had a beginning. The Vedas teach us that creation is without beginning or end. Science is said to have proved that the sum total of cosmic energy is always the same. Then, if there was a time when nothing existed, where was all this manifested energy? Some say it was in a potential form in God. In that case God is sometimes potential and sometimes kinetic, which would make Him mutable. Everything mutable is a compound, and everything compound must undergo that change which is called destruction. So God would die, which is absurd. Therefore there never was a time when there was no creation.

If I may be allowed to use a simile, creation and creator are two lines, without beginning and without end, running parallel to each other. God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed. This is what the Brahmin boy repeats every day: "The sun and the moon, the Lord created like the suns and moons of previous cycles." (1)And this agrees with modern science.

Atman, or the True "Self"

Here I stand and if I shut my eyes, and try to conceive my existence, "I", "I", "I", what is the idea before me? The idea of a body. Am I, then, nothing but a combination of material substances? The Vedas declare, "No". I am a spirit living in a body. I am not the body. The body will die, but I shall not die. Here am I in this body; it will fall, but I shall go on living. I had also a past. The soul was not created, for creation means a combination, which means a certain future dissolution. If then the soul was created, it must die.

Karma and Reincarnation

Some are born happy, enjoy perfect health, with beautiful body, mental vigor and all wants supplied. Others are born miserable, some are without hands or feet, others again are idiots and only drag on a wretched existence. If they are all created, why does a just and merciful God create one happy and another unhappy, why is He so partial? Nor would it mend matters in the least to hold that those who are miserable in this life will be happy in a future one. Why should a person be miserable even here in the reign of a just and merciful God?

In the second place, the idea of a creator God does not explain the anomaly, but simply expresses the cruel fiat of an all-powerful being. There must have been causes, then, before our birth, to make us miserable or happy and those were our past actions.

Are not all the tendencies of the mind and the body accounted for by inherited aptitude? Here are two parallel lines of existence--one of the mind ["subtle" matter], the other of [gross] matter. If [gross] matter and its transformations answer for all that we have, there is no necessity for supposing the existence of a [mind and a] soul. But it cannot be proved that thought has evolved out of matter, and if a philosophical monism is inevitable, spiritual monism is certainly logical and no less desirable than a materialistic monism; but neither of these is necessary here.

We cannot deny that bodies acquire certain tendencies from heredity, but those tendencies only mean the physical configuration through which a peculiar mind alone can act in a peculiar way. There are other tendencies peculiar to a mind caused by the person’s past actions. And a soul with a certain mental tendency would by the laws of affinity take birth in a body which is the fittest instrument for the display of that tendency. This is in accord with science, for science wants to explain everything by habit, and habit is got through repetitions. So repetitions are necessary to explain the natural habits of a new-born soul. And since they were not obtained in this present life, they must have come down from past lives.

There is another suggestion. Taking all these for granted, how is it that I do not remember anything of my past life? This can be easily explained. I am now speaking English. It is not my mother tongue, in fact no words of my mother tongue are now present in my consciousness; but let me try to bring them up, and they rush in. That shows that consciousness is only the surface of the mental ocean, and within its depths are stored up all our experiences. Try and struggle, they would come up and you would be conscious even of your past life.

This is direct and demonstrative evidence. Verification is the perfect proof of a theory, and here is the challenge thrown to the world by the Rishis. We have discovered the secret by which the very depths of the ocean of memory can be stirred up--try it and you would get a complete reminiscence of your past life.