what religion or beleif are u and WHY?

Question

i want detailed or straight forward answers ive got the time to read it thank lianne

Answer 1

Man observes, God reveals.

Very simple, I believe that the Christian (Holy Scriptures and New Testament) bible are God's words spoken by the prophets. Note that I said believed. The Christian bible is not a conversion manual that contains proof of God existence or answers every question. But it is a tool for the believer, and I usually start (yes get your bible out) 1 Cor 10:23-24 with emphasis on verse 24.

But enough of me, what do you believe? Hearing others will not help you to believe. You are using a scientific method (based on observation) to determine a criteria for belief. If you are searching for your belief, may I humbly recommend do a word study of the Gospel of John for the words believe/believer/belief. You will even find the word nonbeliever in there as well.

I can refer you to many other cultures with their religion, but a great teacher one said, come back to me when you have understood your own--he met Christianity.

God luck with your search.

Answer 2

I'm a Southern Baptist, well, first it was 'cuz my parents made me go to church. But, I got saved and baptized, because I believe. Now I'm a baptist, because I love the Lord. He opened my eyes 2 1/2 years ago, I almost died, but it was really him giving me a wake up call because I had backslid so much. He was letting me know it was time to stop playing and to start praying again, and, I did.

I had the flu in Dec. 2003 that was killing people, a lot of people died from it. I was feeling better so on the 22 I went Christmas shopping with my mom, my left ear was sore so I rubbed it, and noticed that it was swollen a little, I figured that I'd just call my doc the next day and it'd be ok, WRONG! the next day the whole left side of my head was swollen up like a basketball. Mom and dad took me to the E.R. they said if I had gotten there minutes later I would have been dead. Well, I can't stand to be messed with, so they had to medically induce a coma, I stayed like that for 11 days, the first five they wouldn't even tell my parents if I was going to live or not, just that if I was still there when they came back to visit, we were doing good. Visiting hours, they could come every 2 hrs for 30mins. I had a mild stroke while in the coma. Come to find out I had the Flu, a Strep infection, and a Sinus infection with abscesses. It had went into my blood system over night, SEPSIS they call it. Very deadly, majority of people who get it die. Any way, a lot of people did a lot of praying for me, bunch of different religions. After I awoke from coma I was laying in my room, I looked out my window I had been looking out for 3 weeks, but this night I saw something I would only see that night, for a few nimutes, up high in the sky in the shape of an open door was a bright bright light, down below it in the shape of a door was flames, now, this was in the night sky. It only happened that one night, out of a total of I think I was in there about a month. To me that was God giving me a sign that I needed to choose, Heaven or Hell. NO more playing. It was time to change. So I still believed everything I was taught when I was younger, but, now, I'm back to studing my Bible, behaving like a christian should.

Answer 3

I follow a Celtic Reconstructionist path (pagan) because this is where my deities have led me. I have always believed in multiple deities and through the years I have built relationships with some of them. For me, religion gives me the structure and methods to honor my deities. My practices are what are right for me and I cannot say if they are right for anyone else---they need to find out what works for them (or not). So I don't feel the need to proselytize. I don't believe in any deity or otherworldly place that is exclusively positive or negative. I don't have any book that I claim was written by a deity. In fact, I don't believe that all deities have an interest in mankind. I believe in reincarnation after a period of time of reflection in the Otherworld. The reason that I believe the things that I do is because it works for me and is fulfilling.

Answer 4

I have my own totally original and unique religion and beliefs because nothing else worked for me. I couldn't live with hell on earth. On the other hand, I couldn't live with a god who would allow that either. So the answer finally dawned on me--it's a blending of science and mysticism based on a premise no one, to my knowledge, has ever thought of before. It explains how miracles can happen and how there can be an innocent deity. Anyway, it makes me happy and that's the important thing.

Answer 5

Buddhism, it has a very logical reasoning and scientific way of studying the truth. No dogmatic or die-hard ideologies. In Buddhism, we are encouraged to investigate and question the Buddha's teachings. If we follow the right path, we shall ultimately come to the same conclusion as the him.

No need to convert, rituals or beliefs.

For more details, go to www.bswa.org.

Answer 6

i guess if i had to choose, it would be apathetic agnostic...
1. The existence of a Supreme Being is unknown and unknowable.

To believe in the existence of a god is an act of faith. To believe in the nonexistence of a god is likewise an act of faith. There is no evidence that there is a Supreme Being nor is there evidence there is not a Supreme Being. Faith is not knowledge. We can only state with assurance that we do not know.

2. If there is a Supreme Being, then that being appears to act as if apathetic to events in our universe.

All events in our Universe, including its creation, can be explained with or without the existence of a Supreme Being. Thus, if there is indeed a God, then that god has had no more impact than no god at all. To all appearances, any purported Supreme Being is indifferent to our Universe and to its inhabitants.

3. We are apathetic to the existence or nonexistence of a Supreme Being.

If there is a God, and that God does not appear to care, then there is no reason to concern ourselves with whether or not a Supreme Being exists, nor should we have any interest in satisfying the purported needs of that Supreme Being. However, our apathy to the question of God's existence does not necessarily mean we are apathetic about promoting agnosticism.

Answer 7

it took years of soul searching and prayer. i finally reconciled my Southern Baptist upbringing with my Christianity by converting to Catholicism.

Couldn't find the answers I needed in the Baptist faith. Couldn't find forgiveness enough for me. I was pretty unhappy there. When I grew up and moved away from home I began looking at different faiths and Catholicism appealed the most to me.

A lot of the appeal that being Catholic held for me was that the Southern Baptists hated Catholics with a passion. I heard so many horror stories when I was a kid about how the Catholics worshipped statues, worshipped Mary, worshipped the Pope. And everyone know in the end time as described in the Book of Revelation. the great harlot of Babylon was the Catholic Church!

Yet when I would ask my parents or my uncle who was about as fervent an anti-catholic as I'd ever seen, how they knew these things, they'd snort and say "Well, EVERYBODY knows it." I asked if any of them had been to a Catholic church service and about got the stuffing smacked out of me. "WE don't go to the Catholic church service!"

OK---how are they such authorities about the Catholic Church when NONE of them has ever stepped foot in a Catholic Church or even talked to a priest.

I began taking instruction at St Agnes in Springfield, MO. The more I learned, the more I felt the Catholic Church was for me. I jjoined the Catholic Church over 25 years ago and have NEVER regretted a minute of it.

You know, my dad never did accept my converting to being Catholic. He died without ever once attending Mass with me--and I asked him dozens of times. He died thinking that his son was a certified statue worshipper, I guess. Thats' sad.

So anyway, that's how I reconciled being Southern Baptist with being a Christian. I became Catholic!

Answer 8

Atheist

It boils down to 2 things for me, how does one reconcile omnipotence, omnibenevolence and omniscience with this world and the life on it. And, why are there so many billions of people living in entire, huge countries whose culture has nothing remotely like the xian god and jesus. Here is a post I did before on the topic:

Because I look at what life was like for human beings for the past 40,000 years (maybe 6,000 for you). People lived for an average of 30-40 years. More than 50% of children died before age one (until about 100 years ago!). I look at thousands of children permanently blinded by parasites they get from playing in creeks in underdeveloped countries.

Then I look at children of modern developed countries, of any religion. I see that they live until their EIGHTIES!! Have all their teeth for a very long time. Have excellent health, etc... And I see that this has nothing to do with religion or god. It is medicine and science. So was it god's plan that hundreds of generations of people would suffer and die in their 40's and suddenly in the 19th and 20th century, everything would get better?

That's nothing other than sadistic.

I also look at all the different gods and interpretations of these gods for the past 4,000-5,000 years. I see how silly it is to point to one religion in the roman era and say "Ah, THIS is the correct one!"

I also posted this in answer to that question:
* The bible has many contradictions
* The bible shows the OT god to be violent and bloodthirsty. He also kills thousands of children.
* For thousands of years, man has had a lifespan of 30-40 years. 100 years ago in the US, 50% of children died before age 1. Modern medicine has greatly reduced this. During eras in western history when the catholic church was in charge and belief in god and church attendance was required, this did not change. So prayer seems not to have been the answer.
* The history of religions and gods seems to show that man has no consistent image or view of what god is or does.
* The bible is open enough to interpretation that if you walked into a church and asked 3 people questions about the bible or god's will, you would get probably 8 different answers.
* People kill each other in god's name every day and he apparently does nothing to stop it.
* 50% of conceptions do not result in birth
* 1 in 8 pregnancies result in twins and one twin is eventually reabsorbed.
* Children are born with no brains, with no limbs, retarded, blind.
* Children go blind from parasites every day, children suffer asthma, and other diseases

Answer 9

Atheist.

I am an atheist because I can think for myself, without being a sheep. The notion of religion is silly, outdated, and childish.

Answer 10

I do not have any religion or belief.
I just know.
That's called spiritual knowledge.
Like any real knowledge it comes from within - and from experience - learning by doing, if you like that better.
So I do not believe in anything - I know what is.