2006-06-29 08:48:55 · 71 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There are so many minister, denominations out there, its mind boggling, and they all have scriptures and verse to back their points. How do you know what to believe?
2006-06-29 08:56:11 · update #1
amy - u misread the question
2006-06-29 08:57:48 · update #2
It's about finding your way to him and having faith in him at all times.
It's not easy to have faith in someone or something that you have never seen. Trust what you feel inside. God does talk to you, not literally, but he shows you things and paths in his own way. You may never realize it was him, but it is.
I am more spiritual than religious, but I know that there is a supreme being and that I will be rewarded for the good I do and punished for the bad. I will answer for my life before I go to a better place. I am prepared for that day, knowing that my values and morals allow me to make choices and I am responsible for those choices. To a cerain extent, we have the ability to reward or punish ourselves for choices we make --- hence with guilt or happiness, it all depends on your values and morals and what is reallly within your heart.
2006-06-29 09:01:56 · answer #1 · answered by Nicole 3 · 3⤊ 6⤋
Why does the instructor attempt us in the course of the exam and would not instruct us the solutions when we can only open the e book after the exam and understand what they were? lamentably, we would have failed through that factor. understanding the reply after the exam would not help a lot. And opposite to our coaching gadget, you get to stay once in this existence. so that you won't be able to retake the exam of existence. God has despatched messengers and revelations for the time of heritage. The message has continually been an same, there is one God who should be worshipped. See it in the Bible, verify it up in Hindu Vedas, or ascertain it in the Quran. The God will reveal himself to believers after the exam is finished. So once you're alive, go searching and note God's creations, and look at your self to stumble on God.
2016-11-15 10:35:38 · answer #2 · answered by nader 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's what I find ironic. A scientist who is an atheist will tell you they don't believe in God, we all evolved from a Big Bang, but then can not explain to you the origin of energy behind the Big Bang. They will say energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed, and that it is essentially eternal. They see energy animate every living thing around us, every time they watch a cell divide they see it working up close, but still deny that God IS that energy.
He told us it would be this way, that people would see His works and still deny His existence, and that they would "believe a lie".
So I don't worry about it, those people who can't see it won't until He returns and then they will feel awfully ashamed for having been in such denial. That's between Him and them.
2006-06-29 09:08:03 · answer #3 · answered by ... 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As good as it may sound, it truly would not work. The apostle Paul underscores the truth of this at Romans 10:14-15. Faith follows the thing heard, not the thing seen. Just as many did not put faith in Jesus of Nazareth though he showed many miracles, there are many who would not put faith in the true God even if he were to show himself plainly. Besides, how would he show himself? He is a spirit person and has told us humans cannot see him and live. We can barely look at the sun – how much more so could we not look upon the most awesome person in the universe!
2006-06-29 08:57:16 · answer #4 · answered by Hannah J Paul 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He did. He came down in the flesh as Jesus Christ, said who he was and what he was here for and what he was offering and people still did not believe him and that was before evolutionary ideas and the internet, so why would things be any different now? But there will come a time where everyone will know that God is real but by then it will be too late for a lot of people.
2006-06-29 08:56:02 · answer #5 · answered by babygemini261 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know its rude, but I'm going to answer your question with a question. Since everything God does is for a reason, doesn't it go to show that there's a lesson in faith and religion for God not to itself? Maybe its becase the human mind wouldn't be able to process God, once it made itself visible. Or maybe its to teach everyone a lesson in tolerance amongst ourselves.
I think the ultimate irony would be if at the end of time and reality, God revealed him/herself and looked like every representation of every God there ever was, as if to say: "You were all right, you were all just to full of pride to recognize that at your best, you all had the right idea."
2006-06-29 08:56:51 · answer #6 · answered by illustrat_ed_designs 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because that would spark the end of the world in the most bloody, violent fashion imaginable. Can you imagine the kinds of holy wars we'd start seeing if God manifested physically? Not to mention nonbelievers would continue to not believe, and would seek out some alternative explanation (aliens, extradimensional life forms, etc.) What if God manifested as a blond-haired blue-eyed white man? What if he manifested as a Native American? What if he manifested as a man of middle-eastern descent?
What if he manifested as a "she"?
Bottom line--God manifesting on Earth would spark problems of cataclysmic proportions. I suspect that's why he's waiting for the end of the world to establish his kingdom on Earth.
2006-06-29 08:55:27 · answer #7 · answered by P.I. Joe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He did show Himself to Adam and Eve in the beginning. When they disobeyed and ate of the tree of knowledge, a spiritual separation came between God and man. (God is spirit) They were removed from the garden and condemned to live life in a fallen world. Then came Jesus- that through His death we would receive the gift of the Holy Spirit and be reconnected to God.
People don't understanding that all Jesus did here on earth was to get us more than a ticket to heaven, but restoration of fellowship with the living God ...and so much more. When you get God, your eyes will be opened to see Him.
2006-06-29 08:57:17 · answer #8 · answered by steves_wifey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God said that he will never force us to believe. He'll never force himself into our lives. We have to trust and believe in what we can't see. Yes it would end the theories, but it would take away that choice. Because God did give us a choice. He said, hey you can believe in me or not. I'm not going to choose for you and I'm not going to make you like me or accept me as your father. So it would be going against what God has already told us... Even though it would be the simplest way to dispel any and all rumors.
2006-06-29 08:54:58 · answer #9 · answered by Leonor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If god just showed himself there would be people who would think it was just a trick. Even the people who believe in god now would not believe it was God. That is what Faith is all about. You BELIEVE in something you can't prove. No I am not a religious fundamentalist, just explaining what faith is. Their were people who saw Jesus 2000 years ago and did not believe he was the son of God and He supposedly performed miracles that should have shown people who he was.
2006-06-29 08:53:32 · answer #10 · answered by courage 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He already did, but they knew Him not...
I JOHN 3:1
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
He also shows Himself in creation...
ROMANS 1:20
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
2006-06-29 08:51:05 · answer #11 · answered by truebeliever_777 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋