Who among you believes in something you were not told to believe in?

Question

Please...give me a detail...yes or no is nice...but hey...talk to me. One answer was about switching from believing in one thing told to him, to another told to him in a book...what about something you have come to believe yourself because you just know?

Wonder Tricia,

I think this question is very specific for the person it resonnates with. It's not looking for vague answers.

Answer 1

I switched to Buddhism because it made sense to me.

"Believe nothing.
No matter where you read it,
Or who said it,
Even if I have said it,
Unless it agrees with your own reason
And your own common sense"
- Buddha -

Answer 2

According to public schools, scientists and the news, there is no life after death, but I believe in it completely.

Consider the contrary evidence to science from near death experiences. Here are just 3 excerpts from a heart surgeon's book on the subject.

Example 1: An elderly woman had been blind since childhood. But, during her NDE, the woman had regained her sight and she was able to accurately describe the instruments and techniques used during the resuscitation her body. After the woman was revived, she reported the details to her doctor. She was able to tell her doctor who came in and out, what they said, what they wore, what they did, all of which was true. Her doctor then referred the woman to Moody who he knew was doing research at the time on NDEs.

Example 2: One patient told Moody, “After it was all over the doctor told me that I had a really bad time, and I said, ‘Yeah, I know.' He said, ‘Well, how do you know?' and I said, ‘I can tell you everything that happened.' He didn't believe me, so I told him the whole story, from the time I stopped breathing until the time I was kind of coming around. He was really shocked to know that I knew everything that had happened. He didn't know quite what to say, but he came in several times to ask me different things about it.”

Example 3: In another instance a woman with a heart condition was dying at the same time that her sister was in a diabetic coma in another part of the same hospital. The subject reported having a conversation with her sister as both of them hovered near the ceiling watching the medical team work on her body below. When the woman awoke, she told the doctor that her sister had died while her own resuscitation was taking place. The doctor denied it, but when she insisted, he had a nurse check on it. The sister had, in fact, died during the time in question.

There are thousands of similar accounts recorded across the globe and seems to be a real phenomenon.

Answer 3

I do! I was told that there were three gods by the Mormons when I was a kid.

I left that church and read Swedenborg who insists that there is only one God - the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is like the soul, the body and the works in a single person!

Answer 4

I was raised Methodist but now consider myself just spiritualist. I like and dislike many things about many religions and I don't think it's right just to believe in something because you were told to or you were raised that way.

Answer 5

I was not raised to believe in God.

Now that I am of mature years, I am convinced of the reality of Divine Intelligence.

I see the divine light shining out of leaves; I see the miracle of design in hands and feet; I see a glimpse of God in all life and creation, and I know that, as Walt Whitman put it:

"I and this mystery, here we stand."

This mystery is Divine Intelligence or, as your might prefer to term it, God.

Answer 6

Ive not been told to believe in Christ, I was introduced to the Gospel, checked it out and ran with it never looking back

Answer 7

Well, I do, but not religion. I have no religion. This question is very vague. It could mean anything from religious matters, to somone telling you not to believe in clowns, and you refuse to believe his or her advice and keep believing in clowns.

Answer 8

I was told to believe in God, but I just couldn't do it. It never made sense to me. The more I studied, the less convinced I became that there was a God.

Answer 9

i was taught not to beleive in myself,,that i wouldnt ammount to a hill of beans,,and thats exactly what happend

Answer 10

Who remembers?