There is far too little heed paid to the humanities aspect in modern religions for which we have as complete a frames of reference as we wish to develop, and far too much attention paid to the deity for which we have no frames of reference for apprehending.

If we are to accept that the Holy Scriptures, of whatever religion, are the words of God, then we also need to accept the nature of Man at the time the scriptures were written by men. Men in such times were in awe and fear of what they could not understand. They would choose to worship as a matter of course.

If, as some believe, we were created in God's image, then one must assume that what is meant is more than just the physical, the wrapping. One must assume that this should be interpreted as our soul or essence is in God's image.

A great man or great woman is not God, but a great man or great woman does not seek worship, he or she shuns it. But let us take that further and say that even just a good person does not seek worship over the well being of others.

If a great individual would seek none, and even a good person would say no until we have seen to our problems, then a God in the same image as us would surely not. To believe that God would require or even desire worship, is to set God below some humans. If there is a God surely this is not possible.

Yes. Logic has no place in faith, but this is not about a logical progression, it is about a rudimentary understanding of God and Man.

Accept the Holy Scriptures, yes, but include in your belief that from which there is no escaping, and that is the underlying human nature of those who wrote them.

Whatever we may consider God to be, if we were made in God's image, then God would want us to get our act together in this existence before we concern ourselves with what comes next.

21^st Century Testament does not ignore the deity altogether but it does focus on this aspect of "getting our act together in this existence before we concern ourselves with what comes next".

And in any case, just how relevant is a doctrine of how one should conduct themselves thousands of years ago, in a world so far removed from when they were written. And moving further away every year.

If we are to keep in touch with our spirituality, we are going to need something that can bridge the gap between the antiquated doctrine and the Modern Age, and this is the function of the 62 books of the 21^st Century Testament.

One other very important aspect of the 21^st Century Testament is that there is no author. Such an important document, that would be as we would wish it to be, must belong to everybody. To attribute any part of it to an author cheapens it, and it would lose part of its power.

None of those who assist in the writing or editing of the 21^st Century Testament will be given credit for the writing. It is a document committed to the human race for the ages, NOT written by a person to be held up as a celebrity.