You always hear about the big 3 (Muslims, Christians and Jews). If one doesn't agree with these practices, but does still believe in a supreme being, then do they need to do anything?. Can't someone just believe that someone is watching over us and leave it at that? Why must others feel compelled to practice a specific organized religion?
2006-10-06 04:33:34 · 9 answers · asked by mpizzo616 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Can someone give me a better answer?
2006-10-08 22:04:34 · update #1
Please read my words carefully:
If you see footmark in the sand, you'll say that someone passed from here...
If you see a piece of dog sh*t on the ground, you'll say that a dog passed from here...
So what about the enormous universe, the sky, stars, planets, earth and all the beauty in it, doesn't it lead to that someone made it?!!!
Some people say that everything is created by itself after the big-bang... I won't ask you about what caused the big-bang, but I'll ask you a simple question:
If you take all the letters of the alphabet, multiples of them, and you threw them randomly on the floor. Do you expect (by a chance of one in infinity) to get a poem like shakespear's??!!
Can't you see how organized our universe is, the planets, the eco-system on earth, look even in your own body... Can you control your heart-beat? Can you control your breath while you're sleeping? Who stopped your eye-lashes from growing after reaching a certain length? Who told the baby turtles to move towards the sea and not to the earth after they come out of their eggs? Who taught the bird how to make nests?
My friend, think with your heart and brain. If you're still lost, think about the following:
Do you know how to play safe?
Your point:
If there's no God and you do all what you want in life, then nothing will happen to you after life. But if there was God and you were mistaken, then you'll blame yourself FOREVER...
Believer's point:
If there's God and I followed His commands in life, then I'll be in Heaven after life FOREVER. But if there was no God and we're mistaken, then nothing bad will happen to us after life...
Now you know how to play-safe, in case you're not convinced?
2006-10-09 23:31:57 · answer #1 · answered by toon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone can't, but anyone can. I pray daily and meditate and remain hopeful and try to love and respect others. Among other stuff. I'm somewhere between being a Deist and being a hopeful agnostic- which means I can't prove God, but I hope that God exists. To me, organized religions are nothing more than political groups. People have a right to be in political groups if they want, but I have the right NOT to be in a political group if that is what I choose. I am pro-life AND pro-choice and I don't listen to people who try to tell me that I can't be both. I can and I am.
You will obviously make up your own mind about how to believe. I will wish you good luck in whatever it is.
2006-10-06 11:44:53 · answer #2 · answered by anyone 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, believing in God (or a supreme being) is one thing. But doesn't it make you wonder more about this being? I don't think I would have ever been satisfied just believing that there is a God who created us and can see us. If I believe that He's 'watching over us', I believe that He cares about us, in which case I want to know Him!
I think people who belong to a specific monotheistic religious group are like that. They're not satisfied just know there's a God. They want more than that. They want to understand the supernatural more than that, and to know God.
2006-10-06 11:40:11 · answer #3 · answered by ryanjamesm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you saying that the other religions aren't worthwhile? Even though many of them have existed for much longer than Christianity, Judaism, and Islam?
People can believe whatever they want, and if they want to practice some other specific organized religion, that is their right. I don't understand what you're trying to say.
2006-10-06 11:48:42 · answer #4 · answered by fiveshiftone 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. It's called being non-practicing.
2006-10-06 11:36:25 · answer #5 · answered by sister steph 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think you mean denomination. It is your relationship with God, not which specific "faith" you choose. As long as you believe that Jesus is the Son of God.
2006-10-06 11:39:03 · answer #6 · answered by Tiffany 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
ok lets say someone is just watching over us, what is it he requires of us? How do you know what it is that he wants?
2006-10-06 11:38:33 · answer #7 · answered by norm s 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it's called Agnostic. That's what I am -- but didn't realize it until I came here.
2006-10-06 11:36:54 · answer #8 · answered by georgia b 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes, it's possible to be an independent.....
2006-10-06 11:37:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋