Religion may go extinct.

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It really doesn't matter how many religions or schools of thoughts there may be. Even if religion was to disappear from the face of this earth, it remains that God is. His throne is in Heaven (Ps.11:4), yet by His Spirit He is everywhere present, filling all space. He has an intimate knowledge of and a personal interest in all the works of His hands. Not only is He the Originator of all, but He is the life of everything that lives. "In Him all things hold together." Col.1:17.

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[Bravus]

http://www.bravus.com/blog/?p=2279

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There is nothing new under the sun. That which has been is that which shall be.

"The enfeebled world was tottering on its foundation when Christianity appeared. The national religions which had satisfied the parents, no longer proved sufficient for their children. The new generations could not repose contented within the ancient forms. The gods of every nation, when transported to Rome, there lost their oracles, as the nations themselves had there lost their liberty. Brought face to face in the Capitol, they had destroyed each other, and their divinity had vanished. A great void was occasioned in the religions of the world.

A kind of deism destitute alike of spirit and of life, floated for a time above the abyss in which the vigorous superstitions of antiquity had been engulfed. But like all negative creeds, it had no power to reconstruct. National prepossessions disappeared with the fall of the national gods. The various kingdoms melted one into the other. In Europe, Asia, and Africa, there was but one vast empire, and the human race began to feel its universality and unity.

Then the Word was made flesh. God appeared among men, and as man, to save that which was lost. In Jesus of Nazareth dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. This is the greatest event in the annals of the world. Former ages had prepared the way for it; the latter ages flow from it.

Henceforward the popular superstitions had no meaning, and the slight fragments preserved from the general wreck of incredulity vanished before the majestic Orb of eternal truth.

From the midst of a people who despised all nations, came forth a mercy that invited and embraced all men. A great number of Asiatics, of Greeks, and of Romans, hitherto dragged by their priests to the feet of dumb idols believed the Word. It suddenly enlightened the whole earth, like a beam of the sun. A breath of life began to move over this wide field of death. A new people, a holy nation, was formed upon the earth; and the astonished world beheld in the disciples of the Galilean a purity and self-denial, a charity and heroism, of which it had retained no idea." D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, p.7.

I believe this is where we are today. History will be repeated. The religions of this world which had satisfied the parents are no longer proving sufficient for their children. The present generations cannot repose contented within the ancient forms. The human race is once again beginning to feel its universality and unity. From the midst of a people who despise all denominations will come forth a mercy that will invite and embrace all men.

The popular superstitions will again vanish before the majestic Orb of eternal truth manifested trough the men and women of God's own choosing. Again the divine fullness will flow through the consecrated human agents, to be given forth to others, and from the many souls thus won to God, glory will flow back to the great Giver, and then the end will come.

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