What are your personal religious/spiritual beliefs and how did you cme to them?

Question

I was just wondering what the rest of you all thought.

Answer 1

I called myself a Christian for years. I wasn't really but I didn't know it at the time. My mother was Catholic & dad was atheiest. After husband's death I became a Wiccan. I studied all sorts of reiligions because I wanted to understand everyone:), I know it's impossible but I have tried. I became a born again Christian November 2001. I try to quit putting God in a box and dusting Him off when I want something. I try to follow the guidelines in the Bible and live as Christ, loving all and praying for all. Somedays I really just stink at it, I am a work in progress.

Answer 2

II am a spiritualist and found God many years ago, although I feel sometimes he came to me when I was ready, I have always looked for the truth, and found that the truth always seemed hidden if you asked questions someone would pick up the bible and start to quote bits from it, but I felt they never really knew the answer, they just took the word from some book, I got more interested in religion, and found that man had turned religion away form what it was intended, they used it to make a profit, and to control. there fellow man My Grandfather told me about his time at the hands of the nuns, at a RC home for boys, how he would be whipped was this punishment suppose to teach him about God, no this went against everything God wants from us, I found out things like the poor translation of the bible from Hebrew, like there was nothing said about a Virgin Mary, that was just put in because they could not translate the words they had until much later then it was to late.
The only religion i know in my heart is right and that is being a spiritualist, I know what people say about us, but I don't care, and yeas I am a medium I speak to spirit, and pass on messages, and to those who say it's mind reading, or cold reading you have no idea what your talking about, I know there are some who may try this, and may find it's works to con people, but not me, nor many thousands around the world. Sometimes I do a reading via e-mail, with just a photo, no address, no name, and no questions asked, the only thing said is can you do a reading, and I will say yes, or no, how can that be mind reading, or cold reading, give me an answer to that, and for those who says it does not exist, or God does not exist prove it, no you can't, but that won't stop you trying, and I wouldn’t want you to, but I know that one day you will find the truth.

Love & Peace

Answer 3

I was raised Presbyterian, lost faith and belief in God at the age of 9, was atheist for a while, then agnostic, and eventually started following a Pagan path. Over the years I have done a lot of reading and research and personal introspection, and have developed a set of beliefs that make sense to me, offer me solace and comfort, and that help me understand the world around me and my place in it.

I believe there is a Higher Power that transcends gender and consciousness as we know it - I usually refer to it as "The Higher Power", "God/dess" or "Universal Energy". I feel that it is an energy that permeates the universe and everything in it, as opposed to a sentient, omniscient, omnipotent Being that is sitting somewhere watching us all.

The similarities between various world pantheons in the types of Gods and Goddesses (Love, War, Fertility, Home, Death, etc.) leads me to believe that the various Gods and Goddesses of the various religions are all aspects of the same Higher Power that has been "broken down" by man into something that we can relate to, and to help deal with whatever needs dealing with at that point.

I also believe in the idea of "Harm None" ("An it harm none, do as ye will" - the Wiccan Rede), and the thought that what energy you put out will come back to you threefold. In this way, my Path is similar to Wicca.

Answer 4

I am nominally a Christian because I was brought up in that particular religion. My husband and my children are Muslims.

Since I was a teenager, many many moons ago I have believed in one supreme being , which we call God. He may be worshipped in many ways. It is a bit like going to the petrol pumps. It all comes from the same source but it is refined to suit your needs.

How did I come to that idea? I couldn't deal with having friends from other religions who were kind, caring, religious etc but infidels and non believers in the eyes of my religion and I in theirs.

I see God's work in my life every day. It gives me peace,humility an endless sense of wonderand the power to continue with what I do with my life.When I am pressed by friends to change to their religion, living as I do in the midst of Muslims, I have a stock answer. When someone can show me a religion where the followers never let themselves down and end up in jail or worse; or someone comes back from the dead with proof that their religion got it right, I will convert.
Until that time I talk to God in my own way through prayer. And I believe that everyone who tries to be the best human being they can be regardless of their religion, goes to heaven.

Answer 5

I believe that God is a valid way of looking at the world, but is only one way of doing so. I believe that Jesus probably was based on a real person or real people who was as accurate in his attestment to Godhood as you or I would be today, but believe that his memory has been tainted for the worse by those who came after him; particularly from Paul onwards.

I do not give much truck to the afterlife, and believe that helping others is its own reward. I do not fear death and strive to make the most of my short time here for the sake of those I leave behind. I believe that religious organisations have an unreasonable monopoly in today's society on the quest for understanding. I believe in the power of humans, both individually and together, both for acts of great altruism and great indulgence. I believe that, ultimately, it is the actions of us as humans that will decide the fate of our descendants, not those of any supernatural force beyond our own.

I got here simply by searching for answers to life's questions, and I continue to wander that path as a ronin mystic, pleased as I am with the experience of the journey. I subscribe to no religious label or identification, but would certainly like some more company in my travels.

Answer 6

I know that we have a Father in Heaven who loves us and who through his Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ's atonement, that was a gift for all of mankind, we may one day return to live with them and our families in the eternities. Since I was very young I always believed and after investigating many religions decided that I didn't know which was the right one, then I was blessed by having the opportunity to be taught by missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and after personal study and prayer about what I was being taught knew without doubt that what I had been taught was true.

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I wish you peace and that you will come to know for yourself the truth. God Bless.

Answer 7

i went to sunday school until i was about 11. thought about christianity a lot and now i am an atheist. not a militant one, i don't want to convert anyone or anything. but i do not want to have anyone else try to convert me or impose accepted truths on me. it is a shame that i cannot be seen as a proud british person without standing for our national anthem in which we ask a fictional character to protect the head of an institution that has plundered our nation's wealth for centuries. as for spirituality, i think that when you are dead your existence has been snuffed out. the idea of there being some remnant of prior existences that we do not understand but sometimes become exposed to is appealling... but probably rubbish.

Answer 8

I worship Kenny from South Park, he is just another Dying God, but what makes him different than the others is that he comes back to life in every episode. All, Praise Kenny! If you don't accept his sacrifice he will make you watch (for all of eternity) a never ending true life drama.

Answer 9

I'm Wiccan. I believe in the threefold law, the harming none, the Godhead, Goddess and God as creators of all in the universe and on this planet. I believe we are here to learn lessons, that the Universe will continue to pound us over the head with repeated "problems", "hard times", what have you, until we learn our lessons, and that we are bound to be reincarnated again and again, learning more lessons with every life, as we come closer and closer to the Goddess/God/Godhead.

My belief in reincarnation and specifically why we are reincarnated lead me to Wicca. I was always curious about it, so I bought some books on magick and magickal philosophies and read through them, and eventually went to a Wicca I class to learn about the basic principles of the path. It really shocked me to listen to what the teacher was saying and find it was what I'd believed in on my own - balance, masculine and feminine in all, the sanctity of nature. It was really a lovely, thrilling moment.

Answer 10

I believe in one God, and that is Allah, and in the Qur'an which he sent down. I read many books to learn more and more about the religion i was born in to. I still try to find out more and more even now. Although my parents are nowhere near religious, i turned out moreso then them because I was interested in learning more, and am keen on my religion, and really believe in it.