Do you have a religion? What is your religion?
Why do you believe this? Is it because you have been socialised to beleive this? Is it because you feel you have to beleive this? Did you choose to beleive this because of something that happened to you? or is there another reason you beleive this?
2006-09-22 06:00:50 · 22 answers · asked by truelylo 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't have a religion, because that's how I was raised, and because that's what I've chosen as an adult. But I do believe. I believe in humankind, in my people, in my capacities, in my limitations...
Now that you mention it, I think it's not accurate to call myself and unbeliever, as though belief were defined only as belief in god... That's still another aspect of how dominated we are by religions.
2006-09-22 08:52:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believe the Holy Bible.
I believe that Jesus is the Son of the living God. I believe that He has sent His Holy Spirit to dwell in us...
I believe it and I know it to be true. Besides the fact there are additional historical documents to back up the Holy Bible. I have experienced things that nature and this natural world can not explain.
Yes, I was brought up a Christian. However, I became rebellious in my teens and walked away from the Church (I now call this "the dark years"). I never walked away from my faith. I became a CEO (Christmas and Easter only) Christian. Sadly enough, it seemed the only time I would pray is when I would get in over my head...or wanted something, instead of using prayer to draw nearer to God's heart and will.
In the dark years, I thought I was doing okay...but I was so wrong. My life began falling apart...and I ended up starting over.
My house-mate invited me to Church one Sunday and I went. ((This was also the Church where I was CEO)).
I continued to go on Sunday mornings...and everytime, the message seemed to be directed...you guessed it, directly at me. The Pastor was speaking into my life. During the praise and worship part of the service, I began to weep. I knew what I had been missing in my life.
Jesus, full-time. He was knocking on the door of my heart, asking could He come in and start the healing? I opened the door...and never looked back.
I have a peace now that I can only give Him the glory for...He has blessed my life so much and in so many ways...I have truly lost count.
For a non-believer, they have no idea of what they are missing out on. They see it as religion and perhaps that is what they've been exposed too.
I don't have religion, I have a relationship with the living God and His Son, Jesus.
I could never again live, without Him.
God loved us when we were sinners and non-believers. He loved us enough to send His Son for our sins. We all fall short of the glory of God...but He has shown us mercy and grace.
Would you give your life for your child, family member or close friend? That's exactly what Jesus did for us.
Jesus teaches us to love the Father, first and foremost. The second greatest commandment is to love one another.
May everyone find the grace of the living God and His Son, Jesus.
2006-09-22 06:03:53 · answer #2 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. I am Christian. Baptist. My church follows the Bible. The whole Bible! I have been going to the same church for years and I am not expected to know everything. I am allowed to ask questions which I was not allowed to do in the Pentecostal Church where I grew up. When I was in that church I & asked a question I got the 3rd degree and still no answer.
My church teaches the Bible and encourages you to read and study on your own. And there are so many people willing to help.
There are so many ways that God has answered our prayers.
My husband has had 6 back operations but walks without a cane or brace. And we finally got a Dr to give him pain meds (Praise) He's had 4 heart attacks but still has good blood flow to his heart. Despite being told of a dead spot on his heart the size of a 50 cent piece and a clogged artery (on the back side) He has been diabetic now for 15 years, but has no complications that we know of. (except he thinks I'm smart)
I have the most wonderful husband in the world. He loves and adores me and I have never been happier. (Prasie)
Right after our daughter was born, I was diagnosed as pre-cancerous. I was treated and now have little to no chance that the cancer will ever come back.
Our daughter is mentally challenged. It took lots of time and arguing but fianlly we found help for her. (Praise)
2006-09-22 06:16:48 · answer #3 · answered by helpme1 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I beleive in myself....it's a lost religion I know....but it is one that can be proven exsists. Most would think I'm silly, that I do not choose to beleive in invisible people who supposedly created everything and control it all by doing nothing.
Oh yeah...and I belive that religions are just a tool (or idea) created by people in "power" as a means of mass population control.
2006-09-22 06:06:08 · answer #4 · answered by archmage_chris_carnage 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believe in things that have passed the laws of logic and reason.
here is a nice concept chart that follows these laws.
Metaphysics- there is a knowable universe
Epistemology - Reason and logic are the best tools to understand everything
Ethics- ration self interest with the Life of the individual as it's highest value
Politics - free trade amongst rational men
2006-09-22 06:12:10 · answer #5 · answered by Real Friend 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm not religious, religion is man made and is the thing Jesus denounced in the 'religious leaders' of his time. I have a faith, in Christ, and since you ask, this is my testimony.
I wasn't raised in any faith, but to live and let live. I live in UK and the few Christians I met didn't even begin to convince me they had all the answers. I did believe in god because my grandad had told me about him when I was very young, but I believed in my own version of God without bothering to think if He is what He is, and not just what I want Him to be.
When I met my husband, he was a christian who fell away from the church, partly because I would have nothing to do with that side of his life.
So much for where I was
We moved to Dorset in 2001 and the first person I made friends with was a Christian. She gave me her testimony and I wasn't moved or impressed, I felt it such a shame that she had given up having fun at her age (30's). She never preached to me or tried to persuade me, but a year later she invited me to her baptism, which was on a local beach, and me and a friend went along because it obviously meant a lot to her, the same way people go to weddings even though they don't believe in marriage.
Whilst there, I was at first embarassed, all these loopy people who I thought were frankly deluded, waving their hands in the air. Then during the testimonies of those who were being baptised, I suddenly had a lightbulb moment. These people were far more content inside, far more at peace with themselves than me. I was independent minded, a big party goer, flirt, who was destroying my marriage. I thought I had all the answers but these guys kept on about meeting Jesus and how it changed their lives. When the elder got up to talk, I felt as though he was talking to me alone. He spoke about all the people in the world who look for their happiness in drink, drugs, sex, partying, etc. How many of them are taking anti-depressants? Well I was. This made sense, I was stirred inside and started crying. He asked, 'if you want to be blessed by Jesus, raise your hand.' I knew what my backslidden hubby would say but somehow I raised my hand, and then like lightning I was filled with the Holy Spirit (never knew you could be, in fact I didn't know what had happened until later), it was like being filled with a peace and love that is totally beyond human understanding. If that's a taste of heaven then I can't wait to get there!
My depression was healed at that moment. Nobody laid hands on me or prayed for me, it was just an intense meeting with Jesus. A bit like Saul on the road to Damascus.
Anyway, I did the alpha course a while after that but I'd already given my life to Jesus, started going to my friend's church, and have never looked back.
2006-09-22 20:36:31 · answer #6 · answered by good tree 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a muslim and i believe in God. I was born a muslim and fo many years I have been one because that's how i was born and what my family believes. i chose to study and look around me more. being a muslim means i do believe in the true messages from Allah to David, Jesus and Mohammed. i believe in every true religion that has ever been on earth, but with its true message, not the one that has been messed up by people looking to gain anything by changing it to their convenience. i now believe in islam because it is true. Islam is of the same version all around the world, unlike the different versions of bible for example. the Quran, which is the holy book of islam has lots of miracles that have been proven through the years to be true which means that no man could have ever wrote this Holy book, it was sent from God and delivered by Muhammed, His chosen messenger. i found it to be a moderate religion based on peace between people and on moderation, unlike what some people, including muslims, who think that islam is an exreme belief and that muslims are just extremists... they only have a wrong understanding of what that Holy thing is.. they have no brains to look deeper into the meanings sent by God. i wish someday they could realize that belief is not to be spread by force... only by deep understanding and full commitment
2006-09-22 06:10:15 · answer #7 · answered by messy_missy 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As a Buddhist I believe in compassion because I believe it is the thing that renews humanity. I picked Buddhism because it made sense to me.
“Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival”
- The Dalai Lama -
“In the Buddhist tradition, compassion and love are seen as
two aspects of same thing: compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness”
- The Dalai Lama -
2006-09-22 06:12:06 · answer #8 · answered by Shinkirou Hasukage 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Maverickism. I developed it myself, based on my own observations and conclusions. Basically, it leaves many of the big questions (Is there a God? Where did we all come from?) open to all possibilities, simply because there is currently not enough information available. It states that free will is an illusion created by our inability to fully understand and analyze the causal factors which lead to our actions. All is predetermined, by causality, and the immense "program" that the universe is executing is referred to as the Causal Web. At the same time, Maverickism acknowledges subjective value in personal experience and in the illusion of free will, itself. That the lack of free will is no excuse to escape responsibility or consequence, as both are equal elements of the Causal Web. To sum it up, Maverickism is an elimination of bias, in one's "official" stances, behavior, and policies.
2006-09-22 06:11:32 · answer #9 · answered by Master Maverick 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
My faiths in God. I did not choose to for most of my life, but i am without doubt now that i have made the correct choice.
There is so many reason's and so many facts. Ishmael.
2006-09-22 07:45:07 · answer #10 · answered by Ne Obliviscaris 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋