I feel that I do not have the ability to decide from all the world's religions which one is correct. What makes religious people so certain that they havn't chosen incorrectly? Are they really THAT sure of themselves?
2006-10-04 10:59:46 · 12 answers · asked by Skippy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Answers to Christine O:
Do you really even believe there to be a higher power? No
Are you a faithful person and therefor can faithfully commit to something for a long period of your life, and would you want this commitment to change your life for the good? Yes, faithful to my wife :D and its been good for both of us.
Do sin alot, or do alot of bad things and have these things on your mind?, and or have let this bother you in some way? No and No.
do you really have people around you that love you and respect you? yes
or do you have people around you that beilve in thre god or religiona, and has it made there life better? yes and its been mixed. My atheist friends are just as happy and successful as my religious friends.
But I'm not sure what you're getting at.
2006-10-04 11:20:22 · update #1
What do I believe? I believe I don't have the ability or evidence to properly decide which of the world's religions is the True One.
2006-10-04 11:22:15 · update #2
i do not know that the one i have chosen is correct ... it is only right for me and my personal beliefs
but yes there are people that are very sure and although i would not call them arrogant .. they should be more open to possibilities
2006-10-04 11:04:19 · answer #1 · answered by Peace 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Faith is only arrogant when it is disconnected from relationship. An individual can know they have chosen correctly if they have found a relationship and not just a set of rules and regulations for making ones' way to some afterlife. You can be sure if you're sure about a person and that person is involved with you personally. As far as the world's religions go - they are almost all based on the same premise, do A, B and C and you'll get this that and the other thing. There is only one where you're not earning your way and that person breaks through to convince you rather than you trying to convince yourself. The way is not a religion - the way is a relationship. That's the difference. If I didn't care about people - then to say I was sure would be arrogant, but if I care about people the way I've been cared about - it's not arrogant at all - it's life changing reality coming to you. The Faith I know is the evidence of things not seen not a vague hope that may or may not come true. I'm definitely not sure of myself, my thoughts or my intellect, my decisions or even my ability to communicate in a non-arrogant way as it were - but there is someone I am sure about who is perfectly faithful in all things.
2006-10-04 18:03:37 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please take this into consideration, Do you really even believe there to be a higher power and if so, what do know about it have you herd what you know, or have you or need to research it in others eyes and lots of them so you can choose,
Are you a faithful person and therefor can faithfully commit to something for a long period of your life, and would you want this commitment to change your life for the good? or at all?
Do sin alot, or do alot of bad things and have these things on your mind?, and or have let this bother you in some way?
do you really have people around you that love you and respect you, or do you have people around you that beilve in thre god or religiona, and has it made there life better?
you should know yourself deeply and know what you want, and need, what you need to change, then pray, just say these things out loud and ask that if a god exist show you him, or speak to you, or show you if there is one relgioe that is real or should be chosen, just pray and let your heart feel the truth ......
goodluck!!!!
2006-10-04 18:07:06 · answer #3 · answered by Christine O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would hardly equate faith with arrogance. Faith can be a very quiet and personalized thing. The people who are damning others to hell and screaming about their religion from the top of their lungs are exercising something beyond simple faith.
2006-10-04 18:08:09 · answer #4 · answered by solarius 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have answered this before, but will stab at it again:
Religion is the culturally acceptable expression as defined by the collective higher self of the group or sub-culture. Spirituality is the individual expression or search for meaning outside the boundaries of the physical but with the evidence of the physical. That is why you have a quest for the spiritual, by you have national religions, even if they are unofficial.
2006-10-04 18:12:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
my personal experiences prove to me that I am correct, in the same way that you have no doubt that gravity exists.
I have no more doubt that souls, and the afterlife, and the God that I belive in, exist, than I have doubt that gravity exists.
but in that case you can't really call it faith, because its simply accepting and understanding what I perceive.
but then again, I don't belive my religion is the "one true way" or anything like that. some of the things I believe, are definitely the truth, in the same way that Gravity is true.
but, IMO it IS profoundly arrogant to claim you have the one true way to god or whatever.
2006-10-04 18:07:16 · answer #6 · answered by RW 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have studied many faiths and weighed the evidence and arguments for each. That is how I know I chose correctly. Does that make me arrogant? I do not think so. I think it makes me grateful.
2006-10-04 18:14:05 · answer #7 · answered by Tim 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
True faith gives humility. However the 'faithful' are often arrogant.
Follow your own path and learn everywhere there are lessons.
2006-10-04 18:06:18 · answer #8 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one actually believes in their god entirely and without a single doubt, that would be astoundingly arrogant.
2006-10-04 18:03:02 · answer #9 · answered by reverenceofme 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Faith is not arrogant, some people are.
What do you believe?
2006-10-04 18:17:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋