Intro to Religiion

Jake Walton There be many different definitions of religion, but two we are studying close to is Paul Tillichs definition and Melford E. Spiros definition. Paul Tillich is a Christian theologian and philosopher who defined religion the state of being grasped by an last-ditch concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the decide to the signification of life.Melford Spiro, a contemporary anthropologist defined religion an institution consisting of culturally patterened interaction with culturally postulated superhuman beings. I favor Tillichs definition. I prefer Paul Tillichs definition because I am a Christian and I can relate to what he is saying with his definition. As a Christian, God is your final concern, just like Tillich said. God comes forwards of all timeything. He is your only counseling to heaven. So you occupy to make him your last-ditch concern by living for him every day.Tillichs definition went on to say a concern that qualifies all other concerns as a preliminary, this means that God comes before anything else in life. Nothing should ever come before God. Everything else should just be a preliminary, or wink to God. The last part of Tillichs definition says a concern which contains the solvent to the question of the meaning of life. This means that God is the meaning of life. I prefer Tillichs definition because this is what I believe.I believe that God is the answer to what is the meaning of life, he has a purpose for everyone and everyones life. God should be your ultimate concern if you want to go to heaven, He is the only way in. You have to live your life through him, and to do that he has to be your outstandingest concern. If other things get in the way you have to put them onward and make them second to God. Never let anything get in the way of you and God. I feel Tillichs definition of religion is a great definition of religion.