If you could name ONE THING apart from "personal experience" that shows you have the right religion?

Question

What would that be?

Answer 1

Great question, Laptop Jesus!

Being Wiccan, my answer would have to be the collective experience of those participating in Sacred Circle. All participants will experience both the energy and work being done in a similar fashion. Consequently, as individuals and as a collective, we walk away with a common understanding and a common experience.

Any psychiatrist, good or bad, will tell you that no two people can have or experience the same precise hallucination. Further, it is even more impossible (if you can in fact quantify impossibility) for two people to to have the same hallucination at the same time.

Given that participants of Sacred Circle both "see" and "experience" the same thing at the same time - in actuality having what the material world would describe as the same hallucination occurring at the same precise moment - it is my humble opinion that this religious and spiritual path is the closest to the truth, due to the sheer impossibility of this taking place in the temporal world.

Answer 2

The historicity of the Resurrection and the evidence in the New Testament.
Consider the following:

1) The textual transmission of the NT is far better than any writing from antiquity. This is in terms of copies in existence and dates of earliest copy. For the NT there are about 24,000 manuscript copies in existence and the earliest one is dated at 125 AD, which is about 50 years after it was written. The Iliad is second, with 643 manuscripts the earliest of which is 500 years older than the time it was written. In short, to reject the NT is to reject all documents of antiquity.

Having established the authenticity of the text of the NT, look at what it records.

2) No one has been able to explain the empty tomb. All the theories fail. The theory that Jesus didn't die on the cross betrays an ignorance of Roman crucifixion. People did not survive crucifixions. What's more even if Jesus did, He could not have rolled to stone away, and certainly would not have appeared in such a way to inspire worship- He would have been weak, bloody and dehydrated, probably barely able to walk. The wrong tomb theory fails since it is hard to believe that EVERYONE made the same mistake. The stolen body theory fails on two counts: one, touching a dead body would be anathema to the apostles, and someone would have recanted when faced with death.

3) Followers of Christ, believing in the Resurrection, went into the world preaching it and were willing to die for that belief. Contrary to what some think, it was not a "new religion" or a moral code they were dying for, but a belief in a bodily resurrection. Why would 1st century Jews become missionaries to Gentiles? Judaism has always been largely an ethnic faith. No one hears of Jews witnessing or evangelizing. What's more, Gentiles were thought to be unclean and not worthy. Something profoundly changed the early apostles.

4) The Gospel records contain information not especially beneficial to a movement. First the Messiah was crucified. Everyone knew the verse "cursed is a man who is hung on a tree." A crucified messiah was a ruined messiah. Secondly, women were the first witnesses. In the first century a woman's testimony meant almost nothing. Finally, the Gospel's record human frailty and weakness: the disciples lack of understanding. Why make up a story and make yourself look like an idiot? The apostles frequently misunderstood Jesus and failed to understand His mission.

5) Finally, the Gospels do not have the mythological/legendary flavor one would expect of a myth. The stories are simple and straightforward, with a very natural feeling. (Yet the words are powerful). The Gospels, and especially Luke, place Jesus at a specific time and place around other historical characters. Jesus was born under Herod and crucified under Pilate. Unlike myths of a dying an rising God, the life of Jesus was at a specific time and place. The myths of other resurrections are usually in the distant past and are connected to the cyclical nature of death and rebirth of the seasons.

I apologize for writing a treatise on a "one thing" question, but I feel that it requires development so I am properly understood.
The short answer is the NT provides compelling evidence for the truth of the Resurrection. I encourage skeptics to read the Gospel of John with an open mind and heart.

Answer 3

I don't think any religions are correct. Once a spiritual perspective or experience is put into words, there is a limitation on it. Words are imperfect, and most the religions (as far as I know) look to some sort of bible or text for answers. Then there is the issue that words can be (and often are) misinterpreted.
That being said, I am not an atheist, rather, I am a very spiritual person.
It's like the John Lennon song 'Imagine' goes (pardon me if there is a mistake): "Imagine there's no heaven, above us only sky, no hell below us, it isn't hard if you try." There is another lyric that says "no relgion too".

Answer 4

Where does that article say they HATE God's private identify? I did not see that within the article. If you're announcing that you simply ought to talk the phrase JEHOVAH so as to be stored, then you could have taken the Bible out of context. It is not improper to make use of the phrase Jehovah, however utilizing that time period does not prevent or upload on your salvation or support get on your so referred to as Earthly Paradise. I'd say your no longer improper for belonging to the Catholic Church ( I discover it curious, that you would bounce send and take three steps again to selected a person made group), however to mention they HATE God's private isn't for your great curiosity, on the grounds that you turn out to be mendacity approximately what used to be particularly mentioned. Loving God's identify is far a lot more than announcing Jehovah. It's what at the back of the identify you employ that issues so much. If you're announcing Jehovah and but outline him with ( only for instance) the Mormon view of God, then that identify does not replicate the actual God and as a consequence meaningless. Since the God of Mormonism does no longer exsist. Bottomline is that should you use a reputation and the outline at the back of that identify is improper, utilizing the identify is incomprehensible. So utilizing the phrase "Jehovah" can't and isn't, one of the vital signs, to end up that such humans ( or organization of humans ) utilizing it are the one actual fans of God.

Answer 5

Matthew 16:18

Answer 6

I believe that the principles in my Bible make sense as a great way to live life. Love, giving , serving... If everyone did these things, and avoided lying, killing, stealing... the world would be a much better place.

(I know that many "christians" don't always show these qualities, but if you base your opinion of Christianity on what the Bible itself says, you'll see these principles are good.)

Answer 7

How about seeing someone elses life change because they chose to follow the Lord? It is not my personal experience, but someone elses actual behvior completely changed....there is no other explanation for me. It was not natural maturation, which does not happen over night...it was the love of God. I can see the happiness in others that I always wanted for myself and that is one reason why I chose to follow Christ.

Answer 8

At some point in our lives, we have all had our trust betrayed. There exist few of us who trust anyone implicitly. The same goes for principles or philosophies. We have trusted them, only to be disappointed. In the same light, we have followed religious scholars, only to find that they too have betrayed us - either by being undereducated or imperfect. Maybe that is why it is so hard for us to let go of ourselves and truly trust Allah.

There is much reward in trusting Allah, paradise. There is sin in distrusting Him. We need to stop relying on our desires our minds our version of logic and realize that Allah is the one who Knows while we know not. Allah is the Wise, and His judgements are wise by default. Allah is the Just and His verdicts are Just by default. We can not see everything in every issue as Allah can, so why do we insist on believing that our minds can be trusted before or instead of Allah?

I pray to Allah, O Allah, to make us trust you and only you. May you make us of the Trusting and keep us from trusting or worshipping our minds before you. Ameen.

Welcome to ISLAM....

Answer 9

The experience of the vast majority of other people I respect in the world for non-spiritual reasons.

Answer 10

What is there besides personal experience that shapes our religious (or lack thereof) beliefs, and therefore reaffirms that we're on the correct path?