Is it easier to just accept what you've been trained or taught to believe, or do you search beyond that?

Question

These days the truth seems like it is playing hide and seek with me. The more I seek after it, the more someone tells me it doesn't matter. That's funny, (sarcastically speaking) I believe that it most certainly does matter. But how to know it is the problem or more so how to accept it. The truth is obvious, don't settle for lies!

Answer 1

It is so much easier for most people to simply believe what is fed to them. Personally I ALWAYS search beyond what is given to me. I come up with my own rules to believe what is true. I base them on the strongest, most logical foundation. It is the best basis to move towards true understanding of the universe. I don't take ANYTHING for granted, ESPECIALLY my own philosophy on belief and truth. That is why it is so strong, because I am always open to the idea that it is wrong. It can always be tested and improved. There are many people like me, joining together in a movement known as "the Brights". Very fascinating.

http://www.the-brights.net/

Answer 2

I think it's easier to accept what you've been taught. But since when is the the easy way, the good way? Here's a relavent piece of scripture from Matthew 7...

13. ``Heaven can be entered only through the narrow gate! The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide enough for all the multitudes who choose its easy way.
14. But the Gateway to Life is small, and the road is narrow, and only a few ever find it.

Elsewhere, in Luke, it says...

seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

In other words, you have to work for it. Actively seek and study and learn.

There are a bazillion people who sit and church expecting the pastor to cram understanding into their lazy skulls and who will end up dieing without the understanding and joy that would have come from a real effort to learn what God whats to teach us.

Also, if you don't learn this stuff, then you can't pass it on to your children and your family line can be lost in one generation

Good luck to ya!

Answer 3

Seek the truth...always. Test the "truth" to validate it.
What is the chance that you were "born" into a family, religion or belief, that has 100% truth? (Everyone can't be right.)
Because my church's affiliation is Baptist, does that mean that Evangelical Baptist doctrine is absolute? (Not even amongst church members).
I believe you should search for the truth and not remain "lazy" to set beliefs because "that's what everyone around you believes" (this includes believers and non-believers). Search diligently and then research and understand what you believe so that you can give account of yourself.

Answer 4

Sure it is easier to accept - who wants to admit they may have been wrong. Something has to rock your boat for you to question your secure position. Slave owners in the USA and Europe could look to the bible to prove that ownership was right. Martin Luther King used the same bible to show that all men are created equal and that slavery is wrong. Go figure.
The truth is not always obvious - truth is what you believe it to be at that moment. The truth is: I believe killing is wrong - unless my family is threatened - then it is right to kill to protect them.
Keep searching with an open mind.

Answer 5

faith or no longer we can go through. suffering comes with this international. some see it some adventure it. yet it occurs. harmless? in simple terms God is harmless,Jesus is harmless. There are those stricken and human beings that see the stricken. There are those that reason illness and human beings that make and attempt to end it. what's a valid life,here in this realm of the mundane? there are a number of perceptions of the international, life and the here after. particularly God's would be executed in the international because it particularly is in heaven. It would not rely what mankind thinks or acts on God has the final observe. Mercy and style isn't a license to sin. reason and influence. issues take place no longer by using fact we deserve it or by using fact we made it take place. It occurs by using fact we live in a international of uncertainty. guy makes a plan be it for the best or evil. God directs his steps for the best of all or for the undesirable of all. yet it particularly is his love that leads many to repentance. in case you do not have faith in it,issues will nonetheless take place in case you shop on living. no person teaches suffering. life teaches suffering,you do no longer want a faith to coach you that. It has no longer something to do with up bringing. It has each and every thing to do with have confidence and love. God is love. human beings go away. God continues to be.

Answer 6

It is "easier" to just accept what you've been taught but you need to find out if that is the truth. What if you were taught/trained in a cult, you can't just accept that. What is your spirit telling you? Always search it out, find the truth. My beleif is that you will find the ultimate truth in the bible. If you haven't already, look there.

Answer 7

I was raised in a household with NO religion.
I was aware of God and The Bible.
I was in my mid 30's when I accepeted Christ as my personal savior and became a Christian.
Try reading PROVERBS first, then maybe Matthew. Skipping through the Bible here and there has worked for me.

Answer 8

I always look beyond,and when I get to that bend, i look again.
I'm on the move through this life, and I don't intend on slowing down. i stop to smell the roses, then pick up and move again.


That's how I find the truth within my-self.

Good luck on your journy through life.

Answer 9

If you're asking this question, then you need to seek out the truth. Don't just act like you believe it, you'll be lying to yourself and others.

The greatest sin is to pretend.

Answer 10

It is easier to just accept, but it is BETTER to search beyond. When you search, and find the answers that satisfy your questions, you can be content with your belief, whatever it is.