2. Religion is a product of the human mind. A dream, a vision, a special revelation, a self-proclaimed leader – these are the usual ways in which a religion starts. Minds think up a system to restrain people and get them into the loop. But God never started a religion. Religion is man complicating what God has made simple. It’s man putting up hoops and telling others to jump through them so they may find God on the other side — except they rarely do. Religions are man-made systems. God has nothing to do with them.

3. Religion separates you from God. The origin of the word ‘religion’ comes from the Latin ‘religare’, which means ‘to reconnect or bind’. That’s what religions set out to do in the first place: to reconnect man to God. But they achieve exactly the opposite: They put people off and turn them away from God. True reconnection with God has already been made through Jesus Christ. Faith in Him, not adherence to religious customs, is what connects you to God. Jesus has done away with the need for the middleman.

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