Does it not become self-gratifying?
2006-09-09 06:01:27 · 11 answers · asked by Xo 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There are things that we can never know. If one feels strongly enough about something, then it makes more sense to call it a belief than knowledge.
The way I see it, the real problem is in assuming that one has the answers or a direct line to the Truth. So if I say that I believe something, I'm really saying that it's my best guess at this time. But mostly I just say it's my best guess and ask for the other person's opinion, knowledge, experience and insights.
2006-09-09 06:18:13 · answer #1 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mysteries are not always about answers. First and fore-most they are about questions. Not all questions lead to firm answers. Sometimes the contemplation of the question is the catalyst that creates change, growth, and experience. This may be the desired result. I know that this was the case with some of the Mystery Cults of ancient Greece. The process of the contemplation would lead a person down certain inevitable paths that create new ways of thinking, new perspectives, that bring the seeker to greater understanding even if the question is never solidly answered. True religions are like this. Cults that only require obediance, following of dogma, and claim to have the answers are social movements and not real spiritual endevours. Spirituality is not really about conformity. There is no One True Faith.
2006-09-09 13:12:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no benefit to only believing without knowing. It is not only self-gratifying but spiritually dangerous.
2006-09-09 13:11:53 · answer #3 · answered by da chet 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You believe in something you don't NO
Now believing in God and being filled with the Holy Ghost "that is Knowing without a Doubt in you head"
2006-09-09 13:54:47 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people believe in something (aka have faith in) because it is a hope for something beyond what they know to be absolute truth. We'll never truly know what is beyond us all until we reach death, and if believing in something (false or not), it's hope nontheless to have meaning in one's life. I'm agnostic, and in no way encouraging a specific religion, by the way.
2006-09-09 13:23:40 · answer #5 · answered by Steve-O 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think there is. Knowingness is the state of being I think we all want to experience, but few do. It is easier to be in a state of believingness.
2006-09-09 13:07:20 · answer #6 · answered by tomleah_06 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It comes to a point that one has to go from knowing to
doing.
2006-09-09 13:04:18 · answer #7 · answered by Medicine Eddie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None. Belief however positions one for faith and faith has the eyes of knowing.
2006-09-09 14:06:58 · answer #8 · answered by Tommy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it has nothing to do with "self", if you believe in God, the only one true God, who is in heaven and believe what the Holy Bible says..
if you want to go to heaven when you die, you will believe in God and accept his son Jesus as your savior and Lord.. that is your choice.
( God Bless)
2006-09-09 13:05:31 · answer #9 · answered by charmaine_pennon 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you would never know.
2006-09-09 13:07:16 · answer #10 · answered by Leo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋