{"id":5304,"date":"2018-04-18T16:38:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T21:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedisciplemaker.org\/?p=5304"},"modified":"2018-04-18T16:38:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T21:38:04","slug":"religion-according-to-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2018\/04\/religion-according-to-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Religion&#8221; According to the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>Oddly enough, there is no Hebrew word in the Old Testament text that corresponds exactly to our word, religion. Of course, there are a number of other words and concepts that certainly illustrate what we mean. Those words, especially within the books detailing the Mosaic law, are used over and over. Typically, they are translated as \u201cordinance,\u201d \u201cstatute,\u201d or \u201claw.\u201d So, then, the kind of thing that we religion-shy people tend to steer away from: the rules and regulations of religious observance.<br \/>\nFeast, or its opposite, fast, are two other common concepts. Feasting we get\u2014we celebrate easily and naturally this way, and so did the Hebrew people. God, apparently, isn\u2019t against his people kicking back and having a good time. While we might list Christmas, Thanksgiving, and maybe Easter as times when we feast in religious celebration, Yahweh appointed seven annual national feast times. The first three were concurrent, taking place over the course of an entire week. The last, the Feast of Tabernacles, also took a week and appears to have originally been much like a massive national campout and barbecue.<br \/>\nFasting, on the other hand, certainly doesn\u2019t come as easily to us. This is what people did when they were getting really serious about some great personal or national need. Not eating between sunup and sundown was intended to remind them through the course of the day to pray. In time, some people began to make a big deal of fasting as a sign of their spiritual superiority\u2014they\u2019d make sure everybody knew that they were fasting. Instead of cultivating humility, it cultivated pride. Jesus chided the Pharisees about this.<a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[i]<\/a><br \/>\nGod spoke to the Hebrew people about fasting in a way that made<strong> abundantly clear the difference between empty religious observance and a vital faith being lived out day by day:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On the day of your fasting [religious observance], you do as you please and exploit all your workers. Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife . . .<\/li>\n<li>You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high. Is this the kind of fast [religion] I have chosen, only a day for people to humble themselves?<\/li>\n<li>Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord? Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice\u00a0and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?<\/li>\n<li>Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter\u2014 when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?<a href=\"#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">[ii]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s abundantly clear from this passage that <strong>God\u2019s idea of meaningful religious activity was starkly different from that of the Jewish people at the time.<\/strong> They wanted to go to church; God wanted them to go to work. They wanted to keep everything they could for themselves; God wanted them to share what they had with the needy. <em>They wanted to keep control; God wanted them to set people free.<\/em><br \/>\nIt\u2019s a perfect illustration of the difference between the bad religion that makes us queasy\u2014even if we still in some measure practice it\u2014and the true religion that James refers to as \u201cpure and faultless.\u201d<br \/>\nThis passage also brings us to another Old Testament conceptualization of what we might call religion: justice. And justice, <strong>God\u2019s justice, is the overarching conceptualization of what true religion ought to be.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Hebrew word mispat, and its variants, are usually translated as \u201cjust,\u201d \u201cjustice,\u201d and \u201cjudgment.\u201d In the Israelite context, unlike in our justice systems, this did not mean the state punishing someone for having done wrong. It was not about retribution but restoration. It meant righting wrongs that had been done, restoring what had been lost or taken away, bringing inequities in the world and communal life into line with God\u2019s standard of goodness. It meant ensuring that everyone had enough, everyone had a place where they belonged, and everyone was treated with dignity.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-5312 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/rabbi-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"537\" height=\"358\" \/><br \/>\nIn a few places in the Law, the same word is used to describe the priests receiving their due from the people of Israel\u2014food and other modes of support that were to be given because the priestly tribe of Levi, unlike the other tribes, was not to be granted any land for themselves.<a href=\"#_edn3\" name=\"_ednref3\">[iii]<\/a> They would care for the rest of the tribes spiritually, and the rest of the tribes would care for them materially.<br \/>\nGod\u2019s justice\u2014God\u2019s idea of real religion\u2014is all about making sure that we\u2019re interdependent, understanding, and valuing the gifts that each one brings to the community and making sure that everyone gets what they need. <strong>This religion is not private, personal, individual. It\u2019s communal.<\/strong> The concept of civil rights is the shadow cast by justice, divorced as it may be from God\u2019s authority and animating vigor. As pale as civil rights may appear compared to justice, we respond instinctively to them, recognizing them as vital, precisely because they have their root in the character of the God who created us\u2014<em>a God whose intention is to go far beyond our rights and shower us with his favor.<\/em><br \/>\nAs we might expect, because he was a Jewish rabbi, Jesus never used a word that could accurately be translated as \u201creligion\u201d either. He did, however, often speak about justice. In particular, as would Paul later, he spoke about \u201crighteousness.\u201d Righteousness means behaving rightly toward other people: justice in the context of interpersonal relationships. In fact, most places in the New Testament where our versions give us \u201crighteous\u201d or \u201crighteousness,\u201d it should really be rendered \u201cjust\u201d or \u201cjustice.\u201d Righteousness is living out the just character of God in our relationships with other people.<br \/>\nJesus summed up the primary importance of rightly living outwardly, with and toward other people, what we believe internally, this way: \u201cSeek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things [material needs] will be added to you.\u201d<a href=\"#_edn4\" name=\"_ednref4\">[iv]<\/a><br \/>\nThe Kingdom of God (the rule of his justice in the systems that give context and communal shape to people\u2019s lives) and his righteousness (right relationship between individuals and those individuals and God) are<strong> to be the foundation for absolutely everything else in our lives.<\/strong> Finally, when we get to the Acts and the Epistles, we encounter a word that corresponds to our contemporary definition of religion.<br \/>\nThe Greek word thr\u00e9skeia (and its variants) doesn\u2019t have an inherently positive or negative connotation. It just means, essentially, the three core characteristics we identified in the introduction: (1) belief in a god or gods, (2) an organized system of beliefs (doctrines) about that or those gods, and (3) the activities, individual and communal, motivated by those beliefs. Any further meaning has to be derived from the context.<br \/>\nPaul used it to describe himself to King Agrippa as one who was an observant Jew: \u201cThey have known me for a long time and can testify, if they are willing, that I conformed to the strictest sect of our religion [thr\u00e9skeia], living as a Pharisee.\u201d<a href=\"#_edn5\" name=\"_ednref5\">[v]<\/a> It was part of his defense, so although the nature of his own religion had changed since meeting Jesus on the Damascus road, he meant it in an affirmative way.<br \/>\nIn his letter to them, he encouraged the Colossian believers to dismiss the religious judgments others would try to lay on them. These people, he said, were falsely humble, and had \u201clost connection with the head\u201d\u2014their inner beliefs and outer actions were all askew and were not rooted in the character of Christ.<a href=\"#_edn6\" name=\"_ednref6\">[vi]<\/a> <strong>Bad religion, in other words.<\/strong> The kind of stuff that drives us crazy in contemporary Christendom.<br \/>\nAnd that brings us back to James, who described both bad religion and true religion in the same context. Here it is again, as a reminder:<br \/>\nThose who consider themselves religious [thr\u00e9skeia] and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion [thr\u00e9skeia] is worthless. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.<a href=\"#_edn7\" name=\"_ednref7\">[vii]<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\"><\/a><br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve been reading with Greg Paul from <em>Resurrecting Religion: Finding Our Way Back to the Good News<\/em>. Learn more about Greg and his church at <a href=\"https:\/\/books.thedisciplemaker.org\/resurrecting-religion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resurrectingreligion.com.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/files.tyndale.com\/thpdata\/firstChapters\/978-1-63146-666-3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ CHAPTER ONE FOR FREE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>&#8220;With raw vulnerability and buckets full of hope,<strong> Greg Paul will restore your faith in the church.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; Steve Wiens, Pastor and Author. <a href=\"https:\/\/books.thedisciplemaker.org\/resurrecting-religion\/#praise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See more praise for <em>Resurrecting Religion<\/em> here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/p\/resurrecting-religion\/9781631466663?utm_source=disciplemaker&amp;utm_medium=%22Religion%22%20According%20to%20the%20Bible&amp;utm_campaign=Resurrecting%20Religion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5072\" src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/Resurrecting-Religion-cover-833x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/p\/resurrecting-religion\/9781631466663?utm_source=disciplemaker&amp;utm_medium=%22Religion%22%20According%20to%20the%20Bible&amp;utm_campaign=Resurrecting%20Religion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GET THE BOOK<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[i]<\/a> See Matthew 6:16-18.<br \/>\n<a href=\"#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\">[ii]<\/a> Isaiah 58:3-7.<br \/>\n<a href=\"#_ednref3\" name=\"_edn3\">[iii]<\/a> For example: Leviticus 10: 13, 14; Deuteronomy 18:3.<br \/>\n<a href=\"#_ednref4\" name=\"_edn4\">[iv]<\/a> Matthew 6:33, esv.<br \/>\n<a href=\"#_ednref5\" name=\"_edn5\">[v]<\/a> Acts 26:5.<br \/>\n<a href=\"#_ednref6\" name=\"_edn6\">[vi]<\/a> Colossians 2:18-19.<br \/>\n<a href=\"#_ednref7\" name=\"_edn7\">[vii]<\/a> James 1:26-27.<br \/>\n<a href=\"#_ednref8\" name=\"_edn8\">[viii]<\/a> Online Etymology Dictionary, s.v. \u201creligion,\u201d http:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/index.php?term=religion.<br \/>\n<a href=\"#_ednref9\" name=\"_edn9\">[ix]<\/a> Online Etymology Dictionary, s.v. \u201cligament,\u201d http:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&amp;search=ligament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oddly enough, there is no Hebrew word in the Old Testament text that corresponds exactly to our word, religion. 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