If you had to choose just one reason...?

Question

...what would be your BEST reason for why YOU believe in your religion/God verses all of the other religions/Gods?

Please state your faith, then your reason.

Many of you have said "God" but do not explain why you do not prescribe to some other interpertation of God.

Answer 1

Christian

No other belief system provides a way to remove sin. Jesus is the only way to do that. It's like refining gold, you go to Christ, and He takes your sin, refining you so you can become pure and get into heaven. Adding good works only covers up the impurities, which makes them harder to remove.

Answer 2

Christian.

The "real" reason is probably just because that's what I was raised with. But the reason I give myself for sticking with it is that I can still consider myself -- due to the many variations of Christianity -- to be Christian even if I interpret the Bible, spirituality, and so forth in my own way. Truthfully, I don't know much about other religions, but I've heard more about different types of Christianity having disagreements over elements of the base religion than I have of any other. Personally, I find that rather good -- it encourages debate and helps people form more informed opinions about what they believe or what their church preaches.

...Or something like that. I've never really thought about it before now, actually. XD

Answer 3

Non-denominational.

Because I don't believe in such a strict, regimented God. God is anything you want God to be. I have no set predispositions of what God is, what God looks like, and what God believes other then God is the great teacher. For me to put faith in God the way that so many do, in my opinion, would defeat the purpose of God and Gods teachings.

Answer 4

I'm an Eastern Orthodox. I just have my faith. That God is our creator and He gave us His Son to be crusified for our sins. But I don't think that if you don't belive what I do that you are going to "burn in Hell". I am not God and I will not judge anyone for what they belive. What if I'm wrong? I don't want people to jam their beliefs down my throat!! I like what South Park does when they show Hell and all the people are there for their orintation and the group leader tells them their all in hell and they're all upset and he lets them know that the Mormons are the religion that was right. Who knows! I belive that if God is Just and your a good person than no one is right or wrong!

Answer 5

I don't belive in organized religion.

I think people corrupt things when they get into groups. therefore I don't think people should come together to talk about religion or god- the truth will get blurred out after awhile.

I do believe in Jesus. I don't believe in the bible. I think other religions have good points and that following all the good ideals (from every and any religions) than you will be doing what god desires.

Answer 6

I am a pagan and worship the Gods of the Ancient Irish Celts. My patron is the Goddess Morrigan. She came to me when I was at deaths door, in fact I was technically dead. I have called on her at different times and she has helped me. But most important deep within me it feels right, I feel complete within myself something I never felt while I was still searching.
That does not mean that I do not believe that the other Gods exist. I believe they all exist. But they are not the right god for me.
I also believe in to many cases man has but forth words in the name of their God that are not from their God.

Answer 7

Christain: I can not tell you all reason that I believe it would be to much to type, but if I can sum it up in a few words, God has been very instrumental in my survival of the things this world has placed on me. Without him I do not believe I could have made it through any of my trials.

Answer 8

I have no organized religious connections.

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 9

My personal experiences with my deities.

I am a polytheist and I believe that many deities exist--but I only worship several. My religion only gives me the structure and ways to worship in a way that I feel pleases my deities and is fulfilling to me--which again brings me back to personal experiences.

Answer 10

Because the Holy Bible is what best reflects reality. Jesus was/is fully human, and we are to emulate His humaness (considering that we Christians live in a debauched, lost and dying world, that's tough, because we too were living debauched lives, until God called).
It is also hard to deny the reality around us, and say that NOBODY made this (the universe, not man's depravity)!

Answer 11

Christian.

I have seen God work in my life, and in the lives of those around me, in ways that cannot be explained away, that cannot be chucked up to luck or coincedence.