How much of your knowledge about?

Question

religion is based on heresay, common basic knowledge, friends, family exposure, remarks of few, OR actual self experienced or researched?

Answer 1

If you want to know about science, go to a science book. If you want to know about God, go to the Bible.

Answer 2

I was pretty much raised Christian (nondenominational) so a lot of my knowledge comes from teachings in Sunday school, regular church services and 2 years of a Christian school. What I've learned from the fore mentioned and some research is that it really does come down to faith. I like to think I haven't been misled but I think I would 'sense' it if I were. I know a lot of tactics false ministers use so I'm fairly confident that heresay is not an influence as certain things I've learned over the years are universal aspects of Christianity. Of coarse it ALL boils down to faith no matter what you've learned.

Answer 3

I did not seek The Faith I now have... on The morning of the day I became one of The True Christian Faith I would have cursed any one who told me I would end up one... four hours after waking a very strang anti religion God cursing sinner, I was suddenly one of those very people I had ridiculed and cursed for 40 yrs... I did no even own a bible... no man grabbed me and "converted" me... I did not ask it to happen, at least not conciously when it started... but God was there when I needed him and I accepted him and what he had been offering me... and what I had been rejecting...
It was just God and me... when I accepted, then God sent one of His people to help me... right then... and right then and there I was one of His and will be for all eternity...

What took only a moment of earthly time I can not state in this short space... I have tried repeatedlyover the last 6 1/2 years to write my testimony... I have yet to do so adiquatly...but if you would care to read of my first day of The True Christian Faith you may at:

http://pages.zdnet.com/mikevanauken/outreach/id109.html

Answer 4

Most of mine is until about 5 years ago was here-say until i took a class in religion and realized that so much of the original bible was left out because man deemed it not appropriate.

I was taught as a child or just believe that God wrote the Bible low and behold I find out later that a Pope decided what should be included and not included in the Bible and the expression it was inspired by God is not true. The Bible was written by men who wrote it down because that was their job at that time

Answer 5

Most of my knowledge about my own religion (Roman Catholicism) is based on study, research, and prayer. (Not to mention, graduate school!)

Most of my knowledge about non-Christian religions, however, is based on what I've been told by friends or some professors. I try to remind myself that what I've been told might not be the way things really work for those religions.

Answer 6

Your religious preferences are greatly affected by life experiences. Family, friends, ethnicity, and education all play a big role in what you are comfortable with. That is why there are so many different forms of Christianity.

However, every culture worldwide finds a way to incorporate a supreme being in their belief system and the environment in which you live (nature) leads to their conclusions.

Answer 7

Depends on the religion. My knowledge of Chritianity comes from 14 years of Catholic schooling, and a lifetime of casual research. My knowledge of other religions comes from many different sources - mostly conversations with members of different faiths and books and articles I've read.
I've heard plenty of heresay (and heresy) from lots of people, but I try to ignore it.

Answer 8

I took the route of formally studying religion as part of a humanities degree and I studied everything from 18th century deism to modern Christianity. After all that I rejected it completely as intellectually unsound and morally untenable.

Answer 9

I am the son, grandson, nephew, and cousin of Methodist ministers. On my own, I was a "Jesus Freak" during high school (in the 1970s), majored in Religion in a Methodist college, and spent one year in seminary.

When it became clear being gay would render me ineligible for ordination, I left seminary and divorced the Methodists, refused to return the Baptists' calls, fled abuse from the Catholics, & engaged in heavy petting with the Episcopalians & eventually the Unitarians. Each step led me closer to agnosto-atheism.

But then I fell in love with secular Buddhism because when following a Buddhist spiritual path, belief in God is unnecessary.

Answer 10

Research and self experience.

Answer 11

My relgion comes from The Almighty and self experiance.