Question for All religions including mine...?

Question

How do you know your religion is the right one if you haven't studied other religions? One must ask themselves, are they after the truth or are they just holding on tightly to what they are familar with? Most people only know of other religions what they "hear."

So, how do you know you are in the right religion if you haven't studied many?

I just trying to make some people realize that that are closed minded and you shouldn't use hearsay or judge something in which you have no knowledge. I study.

Answer 1

You know, I respect your question but you don't have to be right, and you certainly do not have to prove yourself in order for your religion to be valid. People need to get that through their thick skulls. It's so annoying to me. People need to accept others for what they are and not try to make them feel like crap by trying to make them prove their beliefs as correct. No one is better and no one is worse. Deal with it. And I understand what you're saying, people need to do their homework on other religions before they pretend like they know their stuff. Like the whole Wicca is Satanism thing.

"Christianity is the only religion where the main person rose from the dead. In Buddhism and Islam the main person died and never came back. If you come across a question that can't be answered, it probably false." -My friend on the phone right now

Answer 2

First, no one will ever know if their religion is right until they pass on or the world ends. As far as studying other religions, I do. I have been a Catholic before and have gone to a number of different kinds of Christian churches. I have a number of other religious books here to study about other religions and I like to go on here to learn about them too. I am also teaching my kids about other religions so that when they get to the age to be able to pick their own, they will be informed and can make a good decision for them. I have a 15 year old that is not only into my religion but Wicca too. In a way they go together nicely. I respect her decision and love her no matter what. Same with my boys when they are old enough to pick.

Answer 3

You HAVE to study many religions in order to know what you want. There are so many of those things you "hear" that are lies made up by people to convince themselves they made the right choice and the others are so ridiculous. If you want to be completely fair, you'll have to try your best to forget everything you know about your own religion and try to look at all religions together objectively and compare. Most probably that will lead you to the fact that all religions are just made up and that people believe because they need something to believe in, but then again, if you never try you can never know.....

Answer 4

I have studied many religions, mostly in order to gain a new-found respect for them. Myself, I am a Druid, I follow the power and whims of nature. For each person the correct religion is always the one they feel most natural following. Whether this be Christianity, Islam, Catholism, Jewish, Wiccan, Hinduism, Daoism, Buddhism, or any other religion I have forgotten to mention. The truth is, salvation can be found once you have made peace with yourself, and for some people, having a religion they are devoted to allows them to find this peace. Others just use their religion as a means to beat down others, which is the worst abuse of religion I have ever seen.

Answer 5

I have studied many religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Wiccan, etc.
I don't personally believe there is a "right and wrong" religion. All religions are united with three aspects: 1) To find peace in yourself, 2) to become a better person in all aspects of your life, and 3) to find peace with your eventual death. Perhaps that is what God desires out of you?
I personally believe all life radiants from God and is a part of God. With that belief system, how is any religion wrong?
Keep studying friend, you'll find the answers. To quote Lao Tzu, "People search for truth afar but neglect the near".

Be good.

Answer 6

I looked at the lives of those who lived in other religions and I saw that do not have the joy, peace, love, and compassion that true Christians have. Some religions are always talking about peace and finding the path to enlightenment, but not one of them yet has found it. I can only look at what you believe and measure your life compared to it. Can you really live what you profess to be the true life. I never hear about miracles among other religions, yet I experience them often and frequently. So, why would I want to change from what I believe and go back to living a miserable life, before I knew Christ.

Answer 7

You don't need to examine every religion to rule them out. You examine the worldview that fits that relgion and if the worldview falls apart so does the relgion that is dependant upon it. Either the evidence leads you to conclude God is personal or he's not. If he is personal you can summarily deny any relgion that says he's not. Pluralism is nonsense, and is just filled with violating the law of Non-Contradiction. You reach conclusions based upon evidence and any relgion that goes against the evidence cannot be true. Going with what you feel is right is horrible advice. It's probably true that at some point or another you have felt very strongly about something that you have been very wrong about. The only reason you should ever follow any relgion or anything else for that matter is for one reason and one reason only because it's the Truth. If it were true there is no god we should all line up to be atheists. We should follow truth wether we like it or not. That's what we do in every other area of life. I don't feel like working but i do because it's true that i have bills to pay. Its truth that rules the day and if a religion in principe depends upon a view of reality that's false, the relgion itself has to be false as well, and not in the postmodern sense of the word. Not just false for you but false for everyone, everywhere, at all times, no matter how they believe about it. I think that Christianity is the only relgion that can accurately answer the questions. But don't believe me, find out for yourself.

Answer 8

True point. There is a danger in studying more than one religion, however.

When you review several religions, you start to see (by analysis) that none of them actually make sense. Once you realize how silly and crazy the fables and myths of religions are, and then get a sense of how deficient the moral codes are (as practiced by the people who live in the religion) you won't want anything to do with organized religion at all, and you'll become an agnostic or atheist.

This is why parents try to get their kids indoctrinated to religion early, and why religionists are so anxious to 'rope in' any converts they can get.

So, yes, go ahead and explore, but do so at your own risk!

Answer 9

If the prerequisite to having a particular belief is to study all other competing beliefs, then we would end up not believing anything, except the belief that we need to study all other beliefs in order to arrive at one. But that begs the question, how many beliefs are there for our evaluation? How many should we study in order to be "qualified" to know we have the right one? We all have to start somewhere, and with limited time and resources available, we have to be smart about it and see how we can narrow our choices to a few competing ones.

Answer 10

Christianity is the only religion that does not teach that we get to heaven(by whatever name) through works. Christians teach that no matter how good you live, it is not perfect, therefore it does not earn you a place in heaven. Others teach that you must suffer or or in some way earn your way to the next life. So they are really teaching you only to be "better" than other people. Such a subjective measuring stick does not make sense if God is perfect.