What is the Foundation for Your Views; World views, Political views, Religious views, Spiritual Views, etc.?

Question

Why do you believe the way you do? Inherited beliefs? Adopted beliefs?; persuaded by others?, original thoughts?
In other words how much effort have you put forth investigating your views to find answers.
Which of your ideas, if any, were confirmed?
Which of your ideas, if any, were changed?

Answer 1

The only thing that really matters, the only truth that has any real meaning in our lives is that Jesus is the King of kings and Lord of lords

Answer 2

Originally, I grew up without knowing all my thoughts were inherited. When I learned that people of all religions experienced miracles, I realized God was bigger than any religion. When I lived in India for 7 months...I am from America...I realized that my self definition of independent, depended on knowing my own culture, and acting in accordance with it. When I experienced menopause, I learned that the biological need to merge and procreate ruled large parts of my younger life. (What hormones giveth, hormones taketh away.) When I lost the feeling of nostalgia for the past, no objects or persons meant more or less to me. When I started working part time, I realized I preferred cooking my own food, to eating out, thinking my own thoughts as opposed to the thoughts necessary for the job, moving at my own pace instead of hurrying. When I really listened to others, I realized no two people perceive, or understand in the same way, even though they may agree. I think this is the way it is supposed to be, and we all should give up trying to persuade others to think as we do.

The older I get, the more I realize that most people with strong opinions, who think they are right, are like big megaphones shouting at empty space. So, I prefer my own company, or the company of quiet, kindly people, who have practical duties and attend to them.

I say, question everything. An old quote I think is helpful is "An unexamined life is not worth living." I'm not sure who said it.

Age and experience have been my biggest teachers. Most of what I thought was true as a young person, turned out to be the thoughts of a group of people, said often enough to turn the ears of the naive...which of course I was. Whether the group is about gender, race, religion, tradition, culture, career, it really doesn't matter. Just because a large group bands together to share their similar ideas, does not make those ideas true.

I will say that through everything, I still sense a power that contains all of love and truth, that operates underneath all the thinkingness of humanity. I call this God, and this is where my trust and devotion rests.

Answer 3

I would like to say that God called me and I finally accepted. Also, by reading the Bible and seeing most of the prophecies in it fulfilled, let me share one with you:

Bible predictions of things to happen in the future confirm the inspiration of Scripture as they come to pass. Notice the following examples of fulfilled Bible prophecies:

A. Four world empires to arise: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome (Daniel chapters 2, 7, 8).
B. Cyrus to be the warrior to capture Babylon (Isaiah 45:1-3).
C. After Babylon's destruction, it would never be inhabited again (Isaiah 13:19, 20; Jeremiah 51:37).
D. Egypt would never again have a commanding position among the nations (Ezekiel 29:14, 15; 30:12, 13).
E. Earth-shaking calamities and fear toward the end of time (Luke 21:25, 26).
F. Moral degeneracy and decline of spirituality in the last days (2 Timothy 3:1-5).

The 66 books of the Bible were written:
1. On three continents.
2. In three languages.
3. By about 40 different people (kings, shepherds, scientists, attorneys, an army general, fishermen, priests, and a physician).
4. Over a period of about 1,500 years.
5. On the most controversial subjects.
6. By people who, in most cases, had never met.
7. By authors whose education and background varied greatly.

Yet, though it seems totally inconceivable,
1. The 66 books maintain harmony with each other.
2. Often new concepts on a subject are expressed, but these concepts do not undermine what other Bible writers say on the same subject.

Answer 4

Everything I believe is based on what I've learned from God's WORD, The Bible.

Some of my beliefs have been changed by God's WORD, some have been confirmed.

Answer 5

i prefer to devolep my own ideas. someone once said the ideas u get when u r a teenager sticks with u forever. is that true? i kind of adopt some beliefs like religious but i adapt them though

Answer 6

I think as I grow my ideas and beliefs grow with me. I base my beliefs purely results. If my beliefs strengthens me as a person I accept them to be true, if it weakens me I accept them to be false. I get influenced by everything I see, hear, taste, smell, and feel (and something called intuition). I mould reality and reality moulds me.

Answer 7

The Bible. It tells us who our Creator is. It gives us hope that all of mankind's problems, including sickness, old age, and death will be done away with by God's Messianic Kingdom in the hands of Jesus Christ.