Would you have discovered God if your parents didn't tell you read the scriptures and 'raise' you in a

Question

religious environment? I think ALL religious people are conformists who could not question what their surroundings did to them. By that i mean their upbringings that fed them all those beliefs.

Answer 1

That is an excellent point, I've been saying that for years. Religion is a product of geography, not truth. If your raised in the middle east your Muslim. If your raised in American your christian. Chances are your religion is wrong. If you were raised in a different part of the world you would be a different religion than you are now.

Answer 2

I think all religious people question their surroundings at one time or another, for example: why do bad things happen to good people? It's the person's own personal faith, not their surroundings that help them decide the answer to questions such as those. Certainly, if they ask for help from religious leaders they can be given answers that maybe they didn't think of in the first place. It's also ignorant to assume that all religious people believe in God. Many Buddhists are highly religious, but none of them worship God. I'm sorry you feel this way about "religious people," but your insecurities in your own life are no reason to attack others about their beliefs.

Answer 3

I would have still found God.......or He would have found ME. I'm not a conformist at all, and have changed denominations because I didn't agree with what my family's church believed. I did start reading the Bible on my own at age 13 and decided that some things they believed just weren't biblical. So no I'm not a conformist, and yes I would have found Him anyway.....or vice versa.
And no I'm not stupid either. My IQ is somewhere in the 140's depending on which test you choose to believe. I'm far from dumb. I'm tired of people thinking Christians are all uneducated, low intellect people. We're NOT. Makes me wonder about the IQ of those who question our beliefs though.....

Answer 4

I was raised in a family where God was never mentioned except as a curse word. Neither parent attended church not even on holidays. I became a Christian at 16 years of age with no church help or teachings. I am not religious and don't attend church due to their corruption and false teachings. my upbringing was surrounded by drugs, alcohol, and police making arrests and this was the life i was living also. In time after becoming a Christian I quit following in those ways.

Answer 5

I'm not sure. I was raised to believe in God but wasn't brought up reading from the bible or going to church, that was a rare occasion. I still am not sure if I believe or not honestly. I pray at night but then wonder if such fairy tales can be true. I have loved ones that have passed on and it is very comforting to me to think that they are with God and in heaven. So I believe in an after life and I do believe that there are better things to come but what my parents taught me when I was growing up, I'm not sure of. I am my own person and I don't think that I was influenced by any ones beliefs. Maybe if I would of been more influenced I wouldn't have the confusion with religion that I have today.

Answer 6

Discovery of God has very little to do with your upbringing and your parents' religion.

Discovery of God only depends on your quest for faith and not necessarily religion. By that I mean your quest to search for God yourself and your relation with God.

Please note that I am talking about the only Creator (e.g, God, Lord, Allah, Father God, etc.).

While I was born in a family how exposed me to their religion, but also, did allow me to question, search, compare, and built my own belief. The only foundation that I earned from my upbringing was that there should be a God, who created the whole universe and everything within the universe. The rest is the result of my own quest to understand and discover God.

One advise --- Don’t be afraid of asking question and searching for an answer that satisfies your curiosity. Do not blindly accept other peoples word, as it make it difficult to discover God without any fear. I strongly believe that God wants each of us to have a one-to-one relation with him and feel God’s unconditional Love.

Answer 7

hmmmm. . . wrong again.
I was not brought up believing any of what I believe now. Despite the lack of education of what is right, I found the truth or rather it found me and brought me from where I was to where I am today. Why do a lot of you atheists, having no real understanding of what we believe and not having done your research just assume that we are ignorant followers. Trust me , in the physical, it would be so much easier to "follow" people like you. There would be so much less discrimination, so much less bigotry to have to deal with. MOST Christians I know are very very well educated, many are well read and researched in the sciences and in the Word of God. My husband and I both have a genius I Q. My husband is very well versed in history amongst other things. Both of us suffer a lot of persecution at the words and actions of our families because of what we believe. I think that before making such foolish accusations and spreading bigoted lies, you should do your research and get your facts straight. the reason I believe what I do is because I questioned everything! I, personally went to several churches and investigated many religions which none of my family members had any interest in before I came to what I know to be the truth.

Answer 8

Well I have a nephew that is 10 years old and my sister has never got him involved in religious activities or had him read the bible, or even tell him who Jesus or God is. I think that that is a pity because what is going to happen when Jesus comes back for us and my nephews name is not in the book of life. Sometimes I wish that I could talk to him about it but my sister thinks that that is going to make him afraid to be here on earth. I have a five year old and she knows who Jesus and God are, and when she gets older she can make the decision to receive communion and make her relationship with Jesus and God stronger.

Answer 9

ARE YOU THAT IGNORANT?

Children have more influences than just their parents. And as I became a young adult, I questioned the religion and values that my parents used to raise me, BECAUSE I was surrounded by friends of other religions and history classes that taught me of other faiths. and from the research *I* did on other religions, I abandoned the one of my parents, ebcause I do not agree with it.

SO SORRY, but not every person who has faith is a CONFORMIST.

Answer 10

My parents are not even Christians, let alone religious. But I still became a Christian. I love every single word of The Word if God. I also love God and the Church of Christ and they love me. I am fascinated by the beauty of God's Creation. For example, a disgusting-looking caterpillar will grow to a beautiful butterfly. Don't you agree with me that God's Creation gives pleasure to the senses?
May my story bless you. Hallelujah!

Answer 11

Let me tell you a little about my upbringing. Yes, my parents brought me to church. However, they do not conform to the church. I did not become a Christian under their guidance, but lived according to the world in sin. And for most of my life, I kept pushing Him away, wanting to live my way and not His way. But He was persistant, and He humbled me. It was in my humility that I saw no hope. But He brought me out of the ruins of my life. I began to trust Him and He began to guide me. He gave me a direction and I joined the army. It was in the army that I received His salvation, and my trust continued through my deployment to Afghanistan. Furthermore, I ask of God how He may use me when I go back there. But to conclude, my beliefs are not the same as my parents' beliefs. My beliefs are not the same as the church I grew up in either. My beliefs came about from the truth that He revealed to me outside of my family and the church I grew up in, and I accepted Christ at the age of 27, rejecting the immorality of the world that brought me into ruin. That is why I am choosing to conform to His will, "that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable in His death" (Philippeans 3:10).