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what makes you believe in what you are practicing besides what a preacher or the religious text tells you? and is it something that you yourself figured out or part of a larger scale?

2006-11-03 19:27:19 · 13 answers · asked by Red Eye 4 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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It is a personal relationship with God. No one can tell you that you have to. They can only tell you how they did. Read the bible, open your mind to God without being judgmental and biased. Find out for yourself. Put your trust in NO man. All Christians can do is give advice. Christians don't hate the atheists. Christians want them to see what they see. That's it. And if you don't want to see then, I wish you well and have a good life. Christians aren't perfect, we sin like everyone else. But we know that there is a higher power to answer to.

2006-11-03 19:33:31 · answer #1 · answered by RIDLEY 6 · 2 1

Red eye...I know from personal experience. I have proven it time and time again by studying the Bible and then having what I felt it was saying confirmed by several other sources.

More then that, I have felt the peace and joy that only Jesus can give and I have seen this same joy and peace overflow others the moment they placed their trust in the LORD.

I have had phone calls in the middle of the night and have been cussed up one side and down the other by those who said God did not exist...or worse..where was He when I was being abused and I have seen that anger vanish immediately when that person accepted the LORD because I was willing to listen. Just last week, a woman who was asking me why God hated her the very moment that she accepted the LORD...her immediate reply was...HE DOES LOVE ME...HE REALLY DOES!

Red eye...in reality, none of us can tell you how we know as much as personal experiance can. It is like telling a blind man what a sunset looks like. We can not explain it but if he saw one, he would not want to miss another one. Read the link below...call upon Jesus..then you will KNOW.....

2006-11-04 03:43:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Here's what I previously responded to a similar question in the past:

"Simply because I consider myself too miniscule in the grand scheme of things that science is only beginning to grasp and/or hypothesize as to its present day findings. Up to now we haven't discovered every living creature in the depths of the seas or in the midst of the rainforests. Up to now we still cannot tell exactly where our memories are lodged. Up to now we haven't reached the edge of our own galaxy and already theorize that there are millions of other galaxies beyond ours...

Up to now science cannot make a living tree or a blade of grass out of all the available chemicals that we've found thus far. And up to now we don't have the EXACT measurement of our own planet Earth up to the minutest detail or centimeter; nor have we reached its innermost core to actually know what's lodged deep inside it.

Yet man has such a huge ego to think that EVERYTHING came about and can be reasoned out by mere science. Yeah, right!

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P.S. It amazes me to no end how simple people with simple minds react so vehemently to merely a few words and immediately become so defensive. Imagine that! And to think that I haven't even touched on making any direct statements pertaining to deities, supernatural after-life locations, or any religious beliefs or books whatsoever... It's a good thing that I don't even consider myself qualified enough to proselytize like others seem to be doing in these pages!

LOL. "

2006-11-04 03:36:05 · answer #3 · answered by Arf Bee 6 · 0 0

To Red Eye that sees everything in red only!

I pray whole heartedly and my prayers are answered!

I would like surprise you the effects of my prayer in the following text:

My sister gave birth to a cute baby boy some 10 years back. At the time of birth doctors detected that the baby was having a severe heart ailment and advised my brother in law that the baby has to undergo cumplsory heart surgery after 18 months from then to rectify the defect.

We were all staying together in a joint family. Daily I took the baby to a nearby place of woship and prayed for his heeling. After 120 days from the date of birth, the first medical checkup was conducted and found the ailment was was still existing.
180th day day checkup showed there ws the ailment but it was slightly on higher side. 270th day medical check gave us a jolt that the baby may not survive for 2 months.

Friend you won't believe, I lstarted living on liquid food and started praying in that place of worship contineously after having shower daily in the morning sitting with the baby and practically at night exactly 312th day, our baby showed the symptoms that that we never noticed or happened. That he stopped weeping / crying once in a hour for about 5 - 10 minutes due to some uncomfort.

My mother felt that the baby is in danger zone and admitted him in the hospital immediately!

He was totally asleep and and doctors informed us the baby is fine and there is no more heart ailment to him

What it shows? If you have great trust in the faith and you pray whole heartedly He listens your prayers and extends that blessings that others even don't deserve for it!

2006-11-04 03:31:13 · answer #4 · answered by SESHADRI K 6 · 0 0

It is something that I chanced upon after seeking God.

That is, one of the last things I was looking for was God's Son. But while God permitted me a certain degree of access to him, he at some point kept directing me to his side. I--having heretofore approached him pridefully, not knowing who he was--grew irritated, frustrated, and indignant that the access I previously enjoyed had been barred.

And I kept thinking to myself and asking, "What could possibly be at God's right side, that he keeps directing me there?"

Once, when I asked this question out loud, it dawned on me with a creepy and grave clarity.

What is at God's right hand is God's Son. I (still indignantly) started trying to talk to him--as in, Jesus.

And thereby I took the first step on the path of humility, upon which I have continued.

Which opened up a whole world, for which now I am profoundly grateful.

2006-11-04 03:40:32 · answer #5 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 0 0

I was introduced to Christianity in my late teens. I was atheist, then agnostic. I read the bible, I followed the teachings, and I had a considerable improvement in my peace and my life. I believe in a creator. I did a lot of studying of all religions, and history. I cant say I agree with typical Christianity, but I do believe there are benefits in living a Christ like lifestyle.

2006-11-04 03:32:19 · answer #6 · answered by ♫O Praise Him♫ 5 · 0 0

I believe that which I have studied on my own and has proven to be true either through supernatural occurances in my life or personal conviction.

Blessed Be

2006-11-04 03:31:36 · answer #7 · answered by Celestian Vega 6 · 1 0

Jesus came into my life. I had been waiting and asking a long while but I Finely felt his acceptance and new he was the one and only way to God.

2006-11-04 03:32:46 · answer #8 · answered by Mim 7 · 0 0

The Bible. You must ask yourself "is there a God"?Anybody who says there is no God is just not thinking straight. In your brain there are 100 billion neurons. Each one of those neurons(remember, there's 100 billion of them) is connected to 1000 other neurons. That comes out to 100 trillion connections in your brain. These connections send electronic signals(and you can measure the electricity) from one place to another. If part of the brain is damaged and you lose some function that is controlled by that part of the brain, the brain can actually re-wire itself and let other neurons in the undamaged part of the brain take over so that you can get back that function. That's only the connections in the brain, not the rest of the body.
Our bodies also have tons of information in the DNA. You have enough information in your DNA to fill encyclopedia sized books stacked from here to the moon and back 500 times. Do you really think that came about by just random chance........kind of like a monkey typing out the works of Shakespear just by randomly plucking away at the keys?
You need to step back and look at the big picture of what is being claimed by evolution, namely, that the unbelieveable complexity of the human brain(not to mention the rest of the body) is nothing more than re-arranged pond scum. It’s pond scum from the original prebiotic soup re-arranged over billions of years into 100 trillion connections in the brain by luck…..just random chance.
Assumming there is a God, how would you know anything about Him. You certainly couldn't find out anything about Him by investigating Him Sherlock Holmes style. If you're just going to use your own reason and logic, there just isn't enough facts about God to tell you much about Him. You wouldn't need reason to investigate God. You'd need revelation. You'd have to have some kind of a Holy Book to tell you about God that was from God. Reason will tell you that there is a God. Where you see design, common sense tells you there must be a designer. But common sense isn't going to tell you whether there is a heaven or a hell or what are Gods requirements to go to heaven or to avoid hell. Again, for that you need revelation. God is simply up there and we're down here. If we're going to know anything about God it's because He chooses to reveal it to us. So you would need to check out all the Holy books and see if one has the signature of God in it.
The Bible has the signature of God attached to it in many ways. One of those ways is Bible prophecy. The old testament has 333 prophecies about the first coming of Jesus Christ and 456 specific details about his life(all written between 400 and 200 years before he was born). The 4 gospels in the new testament(Mathew, Mark, Luke & John) tell the story of jesus. Had those 4 gospel writers chosen to not write their gospels, we could still have re-created the whole life of Christ just from the old testament(all written before he was born). In fact, that is how the christians preached the gospel in the first 20-30 years after the death of Christ. They preached it from the old testament because the new testament had not yet been written. Man sees history like a person sees the Rose Parade sitting in the stands. The floats that have already gone by him are like the past. The floats in front of him are like the present. The floats still coming are like the future. These prophets in the old testament who wrote about Jesus Christ seemed to be able to see history the way you would see the Rose Parade from a helicopter. They seemed to be able to see the end from the beginning. That tells me that though they were writing these things down the info was not ultimately coming from them but from a higher source because man simply doesn't see history that way. Also, the bible has amazing knowledge about many scientific principals long before these principals were discovered. Seventeen times in the old testament the bible says that God is "stretching the heavens". For thousands of years bible scholar struggles with what that could possibly mean. Then in 1929 Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe was expanding. The bible told us that long ago.
No other religion or Holy Book has this king of knowledge. All this tells me that these prophets in both the old and new testament were not nutcases but true prophets of God.
As a Christian, that's why I believe what I believe.
http://www.ankerberg.com/

http://www.intouch.org/index_76034.html

http://www.pleaseconvinceme.com/home.php

http://www.tektonics.org/

http://www.johnankerberg.org/Articles/_PDFArchives/theological-dictionary/TD4W1003.pdf

2006-11-04 03:49:23 · answer #9 · answered by upsman 5 · 0 0

well i read the bible and found what i believe to be a hidden goddess, and thats why i believe that Sophia is a goddess (even though i was not the first to find her) and all the rest i believe because my soul is telling me to belive in it, if your soul is drawn to something you cant ignore it.

2006-11-04 03:31:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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