Why do you belief what you believe?

Question

If you could only give one reason for being your faith or being atheist what would it be? Please state the belief aswell.

Answer 1

I am a Muslim:
* Islam makes perfect sense to me
* Everything mentioned in the Quran always proves true though at sometimes seems impossible (scientific facts)
* Everything Prophet Muhammad taught us proves true also though sometimes seems impossible (when related to science or medicine)
* In essence, Islam is a fair, logical religion that addresses both mind and soul
* Islam values women and places them in a rank equal to men; all people are equal in Islam
* History teaches me that Islam works as a religion for life. When Muslims were true Muslim, the Islamic nation was a strong, compassionate, peaceful, successful, rich one. So the theory is correct. It's the practice that is a failure.

Thank you.

Answer 2

I am Atheist in the sense that I do not believe in a higher power, but I also don't believe that there is absolutely NOT a higher power either.

Until I was nine I went to church every Sunday because my mother told me to. One day I decided to stop just sitting through the sermons and actually become a part of it. First I arranged my own baptism. The Sunday after that I was (for once) ready for church on time and wide awake. I listened to what my minister had to say (which I recall being fairly intelligent and interesting) and then it came time to read off a prayer I had read every week since I could read, but never really listened to. This time, when I did, I was shocked. The entire prayer was me saying how sinful and wretched I was and how I was throwing myself in front of God in order to obtain his undeserved mercy. I thought "What the heck? I'm a GOOD person! I never steal or attack anyone or cheat or anything! It's not fair that I should have to beg for forgiveness when I have done nothing wrong."

From there I began to question the whole mindset. "What makes us so sure of all this anyway?" After that I never went to church and eventually became the proud Athiest I am today.

Answer 3

I consider myself as an humanist, I am also a fan of science and technology.

I have studied various religeous text, and in short they are not crediible.

For example: J.C. did not rise from the dead. The earth was not created 6000 years ago. Sacrificing myself and others will not increase by standing in the eyes of God ( or any other supernatural being ) or entitle me to enter paradise or some other mythical place.

Answer 4

I'm a christian because I met with Jesus despite not being raised in any faith, it was an amazing undeniable spiritual moment, when I got baptised in the Holy spirit and healed of depression, didn't know anything much about Jesus or the spirit until that moment.

Answer 5

We believe what we believe due to what we were taught. When one decides to accept instruction/information (correct or erroneous), then that is what they believe. I accept that I'm a Christian due to the integrity of the information taught to me from the Holy Bible. I was misinformed regarding this book due to misinformation taught to me when I was a child. I became more rightly instructed due to preaching and teaching I was blessed to recieve as a young adult. At the very least I can now accept that God is a being that knows all about me and still loves me based on scripture from the Bible.

Answer 6

We all have a belief system within us, it is what makes the most sense to use as an individal and may give each of us direction in our own life

Answer 7

Just look at the beauty of a new born baby and tell me that it is the result of chance!! Thats just one reason i believe in a creator

Answer 8

Christian. Because the Holy Spirit within me convinces me of the truth found in God's word that God created me and that Jesus Christ died for me and rose again from the dead and that through faith in Him I shall live for ever.

Answer 9

If we are like a sale boat in the middle of an ocean then the ocean is vast and unknown to us for its deep. Then we are travelling upon the surface of this ocean towards destinations unknown. We do not know what and where is the destiny of this important voyage, and neither do we remember where all this began. Sometimes if life feels like a candle with the bright halo around then the halo is our knowledge and awareness. We see what we find illuminated in our minds the rest and the most of existence in the dark depths and expanses of the unknown.

Religion where enables us to manage the known, it also defines the unknown for us. We cannot know fully what we know until we know what we do not know. We need to know the boundary of our knowledge for our rational mind. We cannot have full faith in what we have until we have light of faith upon things we cannot know, and do not know.

If we are like a candle then our consciousness is like a uniform sphere of light around us. With the awareness of our own existence as the centre surrounded by the knowledge of our being, then by the knowledge of things of life, and further along the knowledge of our world. Our rational knowledge about things, including our own being, is not sufficient and complete; it does not fulfil the needs of continuity of our consciousness. We know that things are there but we do not know why they are there. We cannot know fully what we know until we have known with fullness of faith all that exists and we do not know - the beginning, the end, birth, life, death, sufferings, heaven, hell, destiny and all.

Then we all have questions within the life we live and share with others – the life we know and understand. Things we do not understand, things we cannot come to terms with, things that we wish to happen and then things we do not like to happen in our lives. In the parameters of our known life we are limited but in the mind we are not. We have ambitions, desires, hopes, aspirations and dreams.

The reach of our mind is far greater than what we can grasp by our rational mind. This larger than knowledge aspect of our lives enable us to seek out better things in life, to search for the best. We cannot find the best, or our best in the world we experience and know but we can aim for it. And while we do this, while we set our gaze upon the best that we can see, we make better decisions, we choose better things in our lives for our lives. This is why I believe in what I believe. To me this the best I can see and therefore it is my best.

Answer 10

Because l seek answer, l seek the truth, an effect brought about by the eating of the apple