Faith is a way of thinking.
In our social conversations about the fate of our civilization, many of us are of the opinion that religion and politics are the fundamental problems. We could not be more wrong.
Religion and politics both are systems derived of The Law. When we reason by The Law, we inevitably corrupt every system we create. Religion and politics both were perfect institutions from their onset. Their present decay is the inescapable result of our primal way of thinking.
Five thousand years ago, religion rightfully identified the fundamental problem with our civilization. The Jewish religion specifically, in the book of Genesis, wrote that the species called ‘Man’ would certainly go extinct due our primal nature. It then proffered a solution, the details of which it withheld, the reason being we were not yet ready. Other texts then, written three thousand years later, originating from the Christian religion, provided the details, revealing the foundations of a new country, which has a lifestyle called faith.
Now; the exact configuration of this lifestyle of faith, for the past two millennia and counting, has been the topic of endless debates. Religious scholars across many religions worldwide have modelled numerous lifestyles in varying interpretations of faith, none of which apparently have succeeded in resolving our primal nature. The original text that defines faith reads;
THE HOLY BIBLE.
Now faith is the substance of dreams, the evidence of imaginations. (Hebrews 11:1)
Theology’s main battle has been to interpret faith accurately, from which to derive a lifestyle able to counteract our primal nature. Observations however have revealed that in our various religions throughout history, we interpreted the lifestyle biased by our regional moral standards. Our interpretations failed to yield expected results because they were within context only of our individual human cultures, as opposed to our entire humanity’s way of thinking. For an accurate interpretation, we needed to analyse the moral standards of all our human cultures in existence, to find their common denominator.
In kindergarten language, the text refers to the methods that we have substantiated in all our human cultures to making our dreams and imaginations evident. On these methods, faith suggests, we must live, or more understandably, we must derive a new way of thinking.
The methods to substantiating our dreams and making evident our imaginations are not constant. They evolve with the ages. For our present age, we can categorize them into 28 Altars, Pillars, Faculties, or Cultures, which define the foundations for a new way of thinking. These 28 Cultures achieve for us nothing more than to “reveal the truths”, as religious texts put it, or to develop our understandings of how our collective environment works.
Let us contrast Faith with The Law.
If our civilization is a tree, then the tree roots are our human cultures, the trunk is our way of thinking, and the leaves are our lives. Our lives cannot change until we change our way of thinking, and our thinking cannot change until we change our human cultures.
In our old civilization, or old tree, which Theology calls “The tree of the knowledge of good and evil”, we reasoned ‘by The Law’, to derive our present systems of nations, politics, religions, and more. In our new civilization, or new tree, which Theology calls “The tree of life”, we must reason ‘by Faith’, to derive new systems, the likes of which we presently can only hypothesize.
In conclusion here, we must try to answer the following question. Are we intelligent enough to interpret faith accurately?
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