Drawing significance- Place or person?

With Coronavirus, we have arrived a point where everything seems to be crumbling, our innovations, medical science, technology, Artificial intelligence, Religious institutions, Shrines, and so-called holy places too. Coronavirus has emptied the Vatican, the capital of Catholicism, Mecca, Churches, Temples, mosques, Ashrams and all religious institutions. Are we learning something?

Any religion which draws high importance on places than person is struggling to restore back. Is God telling us something? That He is not in places or buildings but in people! Surely if God was in building or places then these would be the safest places. But, at this very moment these are the most dangerous places. Currently the safest place is your home. The God of the Bible who was born, died for our sins and rose again, claimed to be God said, “You are God’s temple and that the spirit of God lives in you” Jesus never promoted to build structures but to gather and worship him for which reasons people assemble on Sundays. Even in the midst of the crisis you can be safe. Trust in God, you will be at peace.

We human beings generally confine to “Confirmation Bias” too often. Now what do I mean by this phrase? Let’s say your elbow is itchy, and you are starting to fear that it might be serious. You type in google “itchy elbow, serious symptom”, and in 20 minutes you are convinced that you have elbow cancer. You can easily find a confirmation for any belief, and people often do. We tend to look for information that confirms our beliefs. We jump to conclusions, assume that our initial guess is correct, and then look for evidence that supports it. That is called confirmation bias, and it has many effects that prevent us from being more intelligent and developing accurate beliefs.

This is how most of the time we put our trust on people too, may it be a Political leader, Government personal or so-called self-made godmen and we take all efforts to defend them. We defend people and places and fight with each other.

Let us take this into cognizance, that this should not be the pattern to find our true identity in God. To know why such things are happening? Where is God? You need to find whom you believe as Supernatural being? Well, I am not talking about our worshiping the created beings, because technically they cannot be God as they are also part of the same creation. There is no way you can group every religious belief and practice together and then smugly denounce religion as a whole. All beliefs are not equal. Some are true and others are false. Find the true claims of God and put your faith on Him. Stay at home and be safe.

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