What were you doing when you first decided that you do(n't) believe in *insert religon here*?

Question

What were the deciding factors in your (lack of) faith?

Bloody good point mrmbreslin!!


Could I change "What were the deciding factors in your (lack of) faith? " to "What were the deciding factors in your (lack of) belief in organised religon"?

Answer 1

I realized the concept of a "god" was illogical

Answer 2

Faith is belief transmitted through generations.I am a Hindu because my parents were Hindus.If your parents are christians you also will be normally a christian.I was born with a religion and I never felt for any change,since all religions worship same God.
Faith is belief,it doesnot require any consideration or proof.
Any thing organised is religion.Communisam was against religion,but it has become biggest religion with Karl Marx as God and their bible"Das Capital".It cannot be questiond .Is democracy not a relgion /faith that it will bring only good?The King and Queen in Britain are they not symbols of faith?

Answer 3

I first had doubts when I was forced to go to church by my dad, He thought that I couldn't make my own mind up about religion at such an early age (10ish). I went to church and sat there thinking "this is soooo boring, if a god really does exist, s/he'd be as bored as I am with the entire world praising him/her week in week out in exactly the same way, using the same words, the same prayers so regularly. I s/he really did exist, wouldn't s/he find a way to stop us praying all of the time? I would if I were god" With that, I pretty much stopped believing, I now try to find scientific reasons for holy events or acts of god.

Answer 4

Dear Chaz,

I used to be an Atheist.

However, over a period of time, I grew convinced of the existence of the Christian God, and ultimately committed my life to Christ (e.g., see http://www.godsci.org/gs/chri/testimony/seek.html ).

There was no one single point where I knew I no longer believed in Atheism but rather a gradual process.

The deciding factors in my lack of faith in Atheism -- are discussed at the link above.

Also, for scientific and intellectual evidence for the existence of God, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/godsci/evidence.htm . These contributed to my moving away from Atheism.

Cordially,
John

Answer 5

when I was younger, I got to thinking about how I wanted to run my life. so I started researching all kinds of beliefs. I read heavily on Buddhism, Judaism, Wicca, and Native American mythology.
I distanced myself from "organized religion" and set out to find the right path for myself.
a few years ago, I was lured back to Christianity, and I've stuck with it ever since. I often do not agree with the Christian "establishment" and I have not yet found a church I really like.
but I just feel in my bones that Jesus is really there, and reading the Bible with my husband has really helped us grow. I've come to the point where I realize a relationship with Christ is mine and mine alone, not to be left up to some Bible college to tell me. that freed me to accept Jesus more willingly.

Answer 6

I didn't trust organised religion even though I believed there is a God. Then one day, my friend invited her to her baptism. This was new to me, I live in UK and never heard of most of the stuff I know now. I didn't know there was a way to have a relationship with Jesus, or to be changed by meeting him. I hadn't heard of baptism of the Holy Spirit either. It all got revealed to me that day. The Holy Spirit had me crying, I gave myself to Jesus (quietly, nobody was prompting me because I was embarrassed and confused.) When I gave myself to Jesus, I was baptised in the Holy Spirit. I didn't even know what had happened until weeks afterwards (I was very reluctant!). Because Jesus had revealed his love to me during my friends baptism, I decided to try her church. I have been there 4 years now and it's lovely.....the elders are so supportive. They really live their lives as God would have them do. There are some churches I wouldn't go to, but the one I'm in is like in the book of Acts.

Answer 7

At that exact moment, i was sitting on the steps contemplating what someone 2000 years ago would have thought of a bolt of lightning hitting a tree 50 yards away from them. It suddenly hit me that using god to explain things that science can't is a losing proposition, god will constantly keep getting pushed back as we explain more and more. There were a lot of other things later, but that started it.

Answer 8

I guess I realised that organised religion stunk about 19 years ago. I realised thatno religion has answers to people questions. Instead it confuses people, it lies to people and it taks them on a wild goose chase.
in fact Jesus came into my heart 19 years ago, and guess what? I found no organised, or anyother form of religion when I met him. You see knowing Jesus is a relationship with God, not religion.
Interesting question. Sadly you'll probably won't like my answer

Answer 9

It didn't make sense. Too much of what I'd been raised to believe raised questions that couldn't be answered. Too many contradictions in the xian bible, too many people picking and choosing what they believed and leaving out what they chose not to. None of it made sense to me. I decided then that it was up to me to live a live I could be proud of...that there's no "all knowing" diety up there waiting for me to mess up, or hoping I'll decide to worship it.

Answer 10

I may believe in God, but certainly not in religions.

The world creation is scientifically proven but how ever, some things don´t completely coordinate. We don´t know, we don´t see, everything is a doubt. I may believe or not believe in God, I don´t know, we don´t know. But religions say what ever they wanna say and each bible has been manipulated and say something different of one another. I don´t buy any of them, Instead, I will pay myself to not be part of any religion.LOL

Answer 11

I still have faith, I'm just trying to fit it in my schedule