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As more of the globe becomes atheistic, what will replace the community aspect of church?
Yeah. I don't think there's a god. Big whoop.
I'm just curious about this question.
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- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
Good question
The Bible foretells the end of false religion.
Many, although they claim to know God or serve him, have not found the road to life...
How can ‘the road to life’ be found? Jesus said that the true religion would be evident in the lives of the people who practice it. “By their fruits you will recognize them,” he said. “Every good tree produces fine fruit.” (Matthew 7:16, 17) In other words, those who practice the true religion would be recognized by their beliefs and their conduct. Although they are not perfect and they make mistakes, true worshipers as a group seek to do God’s will. Let us consider a few features that identify those who practice true religion.
Those who practice the true religion worship only God and make his name known. Jesus declared: “It is God your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.” (Matthew 4:10) Thus, God’s servants worship no one other than God. This worship includes letting people know what the name of the true God is and what he is like. Psalm 83:18 states: “You, whose name is God, you alone are the Most High over all the earth.” Jesus set the pattern in helping others to get to know God, as he said in prayer: “I have made your name manifest to the men you gave me out of the world.” (John 17:6) Similarly, true worshipers today teach others about God’s name, his purposes, and his qualities.
God’s people show genuine, unselfish love for one another. Jesus said: “By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love among yourselves.” (John 13:35) The early Christians had such love for one another. Godly love overcomes racial, social, and national barriers and draws people together in an unbreakable bond of true brotherhood. (Colossians 3:14) Members of false religions do not have such a loving brotherhood. How do we know that? They kill one another because of national or ethnic differences. True Christians do not take up weapons to kill their Christian brothers or anyone else. The Bible states: “The children of God and the children of the Devil are evident by this fact: Everyone who does not carry on righteousness does not originate with God, neither does he who does not love his brother. . . . We should have love for one another; not like Cain, who originated with the wicked one and slaughtered his brother.”—1 John 3:10-12; 4:20, 21.
True worshipers are no part of the world. When on trial before the Roman ruler Pilate, Jesus said: “My kingdom is no part of this world.” (John 18:36) No matter what country they live in, Jesus’ true followers are subjects of his heavenly Kingdom and thus maintain strict neutrality in the world’s political affairs. Where there is a conflict between what God requires and what a political system requires, true worshipers follow the example of the apostles, who said: “We must obey God as ruler rather than men.”—Acts 5:29; Mark 12:17.
Jesus’ true followers preach that God’s Kingdom is mankind’s only hope. Jesus foretold: “This good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.” (Matthew 24:14) Instead of encouraging people to look to human rulers to solve their problems, true followers of Jesus Christ proclaim God’s heavenly Kingdom as the only hope for mankind. (Psalm 146:3) Jesus taught us to pray for that perfect government when he said: “Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also upon earth.” (Matthew 6:10) God’s Word foretold that this heavenly Kingdom “will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms [now existing], and it itself will stand to times indefinite.”—Daniel 2:44.
On the basis of what we have just considered, ask yourself: ‘What religious group bases all its teachings on the Bible and makes known God’s name? What group practices godly love, exercises faith in Jesus, is no part of the world, and proclaims that God’s Kingdom is the only real hope for mankind?'
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- ?Lv 44 years ago
Naw, you're off. Our progression made, technologically speaking, isn't a results of wider popularity of Atheism. the broader popularity is in basic terms a results of no longer attributing divine involvement in so could issues. This has in turn led a lot of human beings to settle for Atheism as a decision. Our technological progression is the outcomes of study. Atheism is only an idealogical decision and by utilising no skill an impetus or reason of any of our tech strides. regrettably, monikers comparable to 'non secular freak' are utilized to many non secular human beings from many religions and idealogies...on the turn area of that, Atheists and Satanists are often lumped interior the comparable non-conformist, evil team by utilising fighters. as a techniques because of the fact the proliferation of books is worried, this could certainly mean greater Atheists interior the ranks. i would not study too a techniques into it, as each and every point out of Atheists i've got ever study in mainstream media has additionally accounted for the small share of the inhabitants they represent. A thorn interior the realm of the main religions consistent with risk...yet, by no skill a actual probability. no longer now, or interior the destiny years. perhaps way way way down the line the numbers will quantity to some thing greater advantageous than a footnote.
- 8 years ago
In the days of Noah the entire population were non-believers with the exception of 8 people- Noah and his family. God destroyed the earth with a flood as evidenced by the millions of fossils that evolutionists refer to as the Cambrian explosion...we says its an explosion of death and evolutionists say it represents and explosion of life. At any rate, I feel that after the re-organization of Israel as a state (1947) which was prophetically fulfilled that we are close to the Second Coming of Christ.
Regarding your question of the community aspect of Church, if you are an atheist, does it really matter what one chemical reaction within a meaty protoplasm does with another chemical reaction in a meaty protoplasm?
Do you have evidence for this claim that God is not real? Or is it simply blind faith? In order to know for certain that God does not exist, you would have to know everything about the universe; otherwise, how could you be sure that God is not found in some area of the universe that you have not explored? You'd have to know everything about everything in order to know that there is no God: in which case you would be omniscient, so you would essentially have to be God in order to know that there is no God.
- Jesus ChryslerLv 68 years ago
Good question - it's not often one sees an honest, original question here.
Probably a combination of things. There are a lot of atheist / humanist social groups that meet regularly - that will probably keep expanding. There's the Unitarian church for those who like all the trappings of the church without the dogma. And then there are Internet venues like this one.
- Anonymous8 years ago
I am worried by the decline of the church. This is all part of his plan. Once religion is eradicated, he will rise and the downfall of man shall begin. He watches everything, he knows everything. Heed this warning and embrace the church. Nicolas Cage is waiting, he will consume us!
- Anonymous8 years ago
I dont mind the buildings, the teachings have to be changed. So temples for inner self strengthening are much welcome to stay in my opinion.
- Anonymous8 years ago
Proof please.
Source(s): Recreational centres, to answer your question.