I'm creating a documentry about Religion and people's beliefs, tell me, what do you believe in? God? Allah? A Giant Cookie Created Earth? Are you God? Thanks
2006-10-04 03:32:53 · 32 answers · asked by Capt'nBenny 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Tough question for some of us.
As for me, I'm a Christian by faith and upbringing, a Taoist by philosophy, but my "spirituality" leans more towards the pagan/naturalist/Native American than anything else.
I do believe in the interconnectedness of all things. The sum of all things is what we call God/The Tao/The Great Spirit/etc... It is the interconnectedness of all things that gives us the sense of soul.
There is an interesting book called "The Holographic Universe" that you might enjoy. It uses the hologram as a metaphor for the underlying structure of the universe. The core concept is that in a photograph the image is made up of discrete parts. If you rip the picture in half you are left with two halves of the picture. However, a hologram is made up of a diffraction pattern. Each section contains information about the whole. If you rip a hologram in half you can still see the entire image in each piece.
2006-10-04 03:45:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I tend to side with the agnostics in that we cannot know the nature of what we call God. The point of the Adam and Eve tale being that we have been separated from the main body of spiritual nature and are stuck on the material plane. We only have a microscopic particle of the spiritual remaining with us on our journey through this place and time as a guide. We will be released through experience and understanding but putting a name or description on God is a blind alley.
2006-10-04 03:51:36 · answer #2 · answered by GJ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe there is but only one God known as our Creator, The One, the Great Architecture of the Universe and all that is. In the beginning God came to the people of the Earth in the image of those people he would appear before. Why this? Because he wouldn't appear as a white man to the people of the Middle East, Africa, nor Asia as this would create fear in the mind of these people. This explains why the different people of this planet have a different view of what God looks like.
This explains the different looks but not the different beliefs. The structure of Religion is man-made and religious beliefs are created and/or changed to fit given society. This is why we have re-interpretations of the Bible from time to time, and why there exists several versions of the Bible. It also explains why there are several different septs of Christianity. It answers the question "If Christianity is the only true way, why then must there be different versions of their belief system?" The answer is interpretation of what the Bible says which leads to why each Church (Baptists, Southern Baptists, Protestants, Presbyterians, etc.)
2006-10-04 03:45:19 · answer #3 · answered by Cambion Chadeauwaulker 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I disagree that religion was created to explain the universe. I believe it was created as a deliberate metaphor, to place the unknowable and unbelievable into story, as a way to relate to it - not to ":explain" it in the imperical sense.
Making the universe try to conform to organized "religion" doctrine didn't come about until monotheism invented the heresy that there is only one spiritual truth.
2006-10-04 03:40:02 · answer #4 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am not god, not to my knowledge. And I guess by definition I would know!
I believe in evolution. I do not believe in god. I believe in honoring nature, especially by taking action to care for our environment. I believe in doing good works while you are living this life and not being concerned with an afterlife. I believe in treating other people with respect and kindness.
I believe I need another cup of coffee!
2006-10-04 03:37:57 · answer #5 · answered by Chickyn in a Handbasket 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
God said it, did it, and I believe it.
2006-10-04 03:35:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I believe in God. I call him Olodumare. Olodumare is the name for God in the Yoruba belief system of Ifa.
If you want more do research on my name which is Omode Osun.
I means child of Osun. Do research on her and all around her and you will get an insight of my beliefs.
It is not voodun neither Santeria so ignore those sites.
Remember, it is not a religion. It is a way of life.
2006-10-04 03:40:53 · answer #7 · answered by Osunwole Adeoyin 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1) - Cite This Source
ag‧nos‧tic
–noun 1. a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.
2006-10-04 03:34:47 · answer #8 · answered by Tall Blonde Spaz 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I believe in spirit, not religion. I believe that there is something out there, and we are all trying to get back to it. i believe we are all part of the divine. I believe that religion has gotten so bound up in rules and regulations and interpretations that it is impossible to find spirit there. Ultimately, all religions are trying to connect to the divine, to spirit, and they are all just pathways to the same goals. It's because of the conflicting rules and regs that we have religious persecution and war.
2006-10-04 03:37:49 · answer #9 · answered by Autumn BrighTree 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe that all the religions of humanity are human inventions, but people put emotional attachment to them above rationality, and tolerate the obvious deficiencies in all of them.
I believe that some religions are worse than others. The two worst are Islam and Christianity, which are Bobbsey Twins.
2006-10-04 03:36:05 · answer #10 · answered by kreevich 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋