What is your Dogma?

Question

This can mean a variety of different things...

religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof

a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative; "he believed all the Marxist dogma"

a religious truth established by Divine Revelation and defined by the church

A generally held set of formulated beliefs.

Answer 1

The last one...as i've got older my beliefs have become generalised i believe there is a path to one true entity but i want to step on every path to see the different ways of getting there.

Answer 2

It seems like you provided an answer already. The term can mean a number of things, and it's even used in a pejoritive sense, like if somebody says, "Wow, he's SO dogmatic he won't even listen to any alternative ideas."

So is there a question here?

Personally, I'm not that into dogma. Catma makes more sense. In my environment, Malcolm the Cat makes all the rules, so catma seems more reasonable.

Answer 3

My thinking is along the lines of the Gnostic teachings, minus
the story-telling aspects of the Old Days.
There are real forces at work that the Source of Life uses to
keep everything going. Like magnetism.
Evil is like a recycling aspect of Creation. Drawing unused
energy into it and refining it so the Source can use it again.
Our spirit, (energy body), whatever one wishes to call it, is
affected by these forces. We either take control, and become
a part of the creative aspect of things. Or lose control, and
end up in the recycling aspect.

Answer 4

You are in trouble on your second sentence: "religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof: Why? Because are confusing two belief systems. Reveal knowledge (revelation) and observed knowledge (science). Simple put, God reveals, man observes.

Let's start with "proof". You start with a theorem and prove it using assumptions and theorems. This is just one of the mathematics systems to describe science. It comes directly from the scientific method that forms theories to account for the facts where a fact is an observation of men (note plural) independent of location.

Where revelation is God's word as spoken by the prophets as documented in the {Christian]. It is believed or not believed. But the belief is not determined by the scientific method. There are not facts that can observe God. God existed before and created everything we can observed. To have a fact about God would require us to observed something outside our observation. It short we can not proof the existence or non existence of God.

Surely we can find in the bible a proof of God's existence. Wrong. There is not proof of God's existence in the pages of the bible: It is assumed. One again we come to belief.

Now what does this have to do with [Christian] dogma? Let me take your four points in order.
1. Religious doctrine (set of beliefs we live by) is neither true nor false. True and false belong to the observed truth. There is no truth to the way I live as opposed to the way you live.
2. The bible (revealed knowledge) is not Marx theory (science meaning). We either belief or not the bible. But we can make a judgment based on observation. Marx accounted for the facts for formulated a theory. Marx is not a prophet, social scientist. Marx theories were used in communism, some worked, some do not.
3. Revelation (divine or otherwise) is subject to belief or not belief. The church on the other hand is a man made organization which may quote, justify, control whatever. The church may claim it authority from God, but its organization is not based on revelation. It's authority comes from man. For example, the Roman Catholic church gets its authority from Peter, the first "Pope" of Rome. The pope is a mediator between Jesus and the faithful. You will not this organizational structure.
4. There is no "formulated" beliefs. Formulated comes from observed knowledge. It is like theories, theorems that account for facts or assumption. You will find the bible is religious (one again a way of life).

Dogma a set of observations based on assumptions comes from observed knowledge. Even if the assumptions are based on the bible. The dogma you created to account for the facts is quite different that the bible that has no facts, no theories, but only the words of the prophets. These words are not theories or facts that can be explain by the scientific method.

This is my belief. It has no logic. It isn't a dogma in the sense that you describe. Because you either belief or not. And what you believe is yours. But remember you live in a world with two or more belief systems.

Answer 5

I like #1. Foolish religious doctrine proclaimed true without proof.

Answer 6

ma is a schnauser, dogma is a word that insults people, was that your aim??
most christians have no Dogma, true Christians religions have a dogma and most just go to a church to help those who aspire to understand what is true. True in the Word and true in experience. Dogma is rigorous and impedes growth. Truth sets you free.

Answer 7

I Have religious beliefs but it comes in direct conflict with the dogma of Church
I like the ethics but not the fairytales
so my dogma is a mix....one sick puppy?
make your own rules ...maybe

Answer 8

You cannot have a "personal dogma". When it comes to your own limited personalized sets of life rules, it is called "Morals".
...Unless you are at the head of a sect, and you establish a dogma to this sect.

Answer 9

I believe in Jesus Christ. That he is part of the Holy Trinity. That He was made God incarnate and that he suffered, died and was buried. I believe that he resurrected on the third day so that all sins may be forgiven. He is sovereign Lord and Master.

Answer 10

I believe the Bible. I love Jesus.
I Cr 13;8a, Love never fails!!!!!
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John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.