“Unless Your law [torah; written revelation] had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction” (Psalm 119:92).

“Remember me, O LORD, with the favor You have toward Your people. . . . We have sinned with our fathers. . . . They did not remember the multitude of Your mercies, but rebelled. . . . Nevertheless, He saved them. . . . They soon forgot His works” (Psalm 118:4, 6, 7, 8, 13). 

“I will sing of the mercies of the LORD forever; with my mouth I will make known Your faithfulness to all generations” (Psalm 89:1).

“Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker. For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand” (Psalm 95:6-7).

Whether Confucianism is, or has ever been, a religion is a consideration that has been hotly debated for centuries, with evidence for and against its religious nature presented by those who answer either “Yes” or “No.” Anna Sun states that this is indeed a question “the West has never been able to answer, and China never able to ask.” She continues, however, that Confucianism is a civil religion. In this section, we shall present the findings of two outstanding American writers, Kenneth Scott Latourette and Charles E. Farhadian, both of whom identify Confucianism as a world religion.

“Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You. In God (I will praise His word), in God I have put my trust. I will not fear” (Psalm 56:3-4).