How does your religion impact in the way you live your life?

Question

please say if you´re male of female as well as your religion and the way it impacts your life based on your gender. Does your religion tell you to act a certain way based on your gender?

right, but for example some religions say no sex before marriage... so if you´re not married has this ever stopped you from having sex, or how does it influence the way you live your life?

thanks ´big bear´and tnkumar1 you´re answers are helping. any instances in particular that you remember your religion having to do a big part of your actions or decisions?

Answer 1

It impacts every aspect of my life, or it should. I am a guy. I don't see much of an impact from Christianity on gender for me personally. As our example Christ treated women as equals. Early Christians in the Dark Ages, probably didn't see it that way, though. My denomination has women pastors and elders, much of what is done in protestent churches with gender roles has more to do with tradition and socitial values, which sometimes people confuse with religion and worship. Some verses in the Bible are often misquoted out of context to say that women shouldn't preach and to be quiet. But men are to love and respect their wives, and treat them as an extension of themselves (thats a verse in the new testament more or less not verbatim). Over all the bible is not terribly restrictive in gender roles in society. The Bible talks more about appearance and hygiene, and place in the family: women having long hair men having short hair. If a man has a family he is to be the spiritual leader in his family, something that is not done as much in today's world.
My religion tells me to love God with all my heart, mind, and soul, and love my fellow man as myself. I try to glorify God everyday through how I live my life, so that when people see me, they see God's will being done. I am not perfect, of course, but a daily relationship with Jesus (prayer, bible study, devotions), and focusing on Jesus not on yourself, helps. This guides what i put into my body, what i do for fun, finances (being a good steward, which also includes the environment), values, morals. I am not a robot though. I make decisions based on the facts and what my conscience or judgment dictates. And Christians were told to "go ye therefore, teaching all nations, baptizing in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit" by Jesus before he ascended into heaven after his ressurection. So Christians have the command to tell other people the "good news" the gospel of Jesus. And it is good to be a missionary and spread the word, we are supposed to be salt, but not everyone can do the same thing, so in one's daily life, we are to witness, through our words and actions too. If I wasn't a Christian i would probably lead a totally different life, I wouldn't care about morals and laws, other than fear of punishment, and I would only worry about myself.

Christianity is an "Either/Or" proposition. Soren Kierkegaard (the first true existential philosopher who was also a Christian) put it that way. We have to take a leap of faith. C. S. Lewis puts it this way, Jesus was either the Son of God or a madman. He definetely existed as a historical figure, we don't need the bible to confirm that. Some people try to deny he ever claimed he was the Son of God, but if you read scripture and understand that he called himself the Son of man and several times affirmed his identitiy to people, he was claiming to be the Messiah. He also healed people, forgave sins, and raised the dead, which really ticked off the Pharisees and Saducees (especially the raising of the dead part). So he either was or wasn't. So, if you believe Jesus was God, and you accept his gift of salvation by faith, your actions should reflect your beliefs, "faith without works is dead." I think this generally answers your question in the categories you described. I could probably go on into more detail. If you want to know something more specific, or an elaboration of something that seems unclear let me know.

Answer 2

I am a Hindu by Religion and I am a Male. In our religion there is equality for every body and we are tolerant. I belong to India which is a land of Hindus but we tolerate large population of Muslims, Christians and other religion. Muslims enjoy so much of freedom including the females and you will be surprised to know in spite of Muslims bombing our trains, temples and parliament and other places as well, we still tolerate Muslims and we in fact live in harmony. In India, we still do not know what the charter of demands of Muslims who act as terrorists and anybody on earth could give an explanation we will be too happy to look into these charter of demands. Many Hindus work in other Muslim countries like, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq, U.A.E. and live in harmony. Our religion has no gender bias and both males and females live happily.

Answer 3

I am a member of The United Methodist Church. I am female, my religion does not dictate womens actions or participation in the church. We ordain women into the ministry and our current Bishop is a woman. I like that my religion (though I prefer denomination rather than religion) does show repsect to and place value on the thoughts and intelligence of it's female members. Our Pastor is a Bible scholar, he is a DR. of theology and of Bible history. He is a fascinating teacher and our Sunday morning services teach me a lot every week. My sunday school teacher is a Godly woman who also preaches as a guest minister in other churches when the pastor is out. As a matter of fact I am teaching our class today in her absence. I have learned many things through Christianity, it has impacted my life in the way I view others, myself and the world. I am grateful to Christ for the sacrifice of his blood on the cross for the forgivness of our sins. I try daily to follow his example and to love my neighbors and to speak in love to others about him and his way to salvation. Last year we were terribly hit by Hurricane Katrina, not only did we have much property damage, my family had just found out two weeks earlier that my beloved mother was dying of cancer. If my family had not had a very strong faith in God and our church had not rallied behind us during both these times, we would not have been able to make it. As bad as the past year was for us though it was even worse for the people on the MS Gulf coast. I pray for them regularly. Faith is Christ has impacted my life for the good on many occasions. I can't imagine life without him.

Answer 4

My religion doesn't tell me what to do.
My religion has given me an instruction book on how to live my life. It is called a Bible. I am given free choice to make up my mind. As far as gender, living a 'good' life has nothing to do with gender issues. It has to do with moral and ethical issues.

Answer 5

My religion provides me with a guideline for living. It gives me guidance and answers life's questions. My religion has helped me in my toughest times.

Answer 6

male

i am religious about

telling my husband, "I love you!" in as many ways I possibly can
expecting the truth to be told
studying until I know the truth, the whole truth,and nothing but the truth

doing my job well
paying my bills before they are due
my eating habits
my exercising habits
the way I treat others

Answer 7

things are calmer