...which one should I adhere to and why?
2006-12-18 17:22:16 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's not like picking a Hobby.
2006-12-18 17:30:58 · answer #1 · answered by Bahaus B 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The one to which you have a connection by blood and ancestry, naturally. Each of us cairries within our genes up a predisposed psychological make up that is connected to out ancestral ethnic heritage. Each of those ancestral cultrues had a religion that was suitable to meet those psychological needs. Sine the needs of different cultrues were different, the religions of those cultures were different. By taking on a religion from a culture that you have no ancestral link to you are taking on ideas that can ONLY be psyhcologically damaging, which is why ther is much mental illness in much of the world, becasue the people are either by force, coercion or legislation requirede to adhere to religious. moral and ethical precepts that can ONLY damage them. Those that have returned to their ancestral religion (or those that never left it) have no such difficulties.
So your first order of business is to look to your ancestry, what countries did your family come from? Ireland? Germany? Mexico? Egypt? Where ever they came from there was a religion that was indiginous to those people and that is where you start. If you are of mixed ancestry, then the process is somewhat more difficult, but even then one path or another will have a stronger pull. That's how is wass with many that have returned to their ancestral religions, the TRUE religion that they should have been following all along.
2006-12-19 01:47:00 · answer #2 · answered by kveldulf_gondlir 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quite simply the one which has stood the fiery tests of time and has not been eradicated through persecutions. The one which reflects a genuine life change in it's followers. The one which exalts God and His Son Jesus. It's not just a religion, it's a relationship with the Way, the Truth and the Life living in your heart. Awesome!
2006-12-19 01:39:58 · answer #3 · answered by Lovin' Mary's Lamb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These facts about Jehovah's Witnesses are perhaps relevant to this question. The more one compares this Christian religion with others, the more remarkable it is shown to be.
1. Jehovah's Witnesses have no paid clergy. Yet they remain tightly organized with more than 6.5 million active Jehovah's Witness preachers (about 16 million associate themselves with the religion). Even fulltime preachers and workers at their branch offices are unpaid volunteers.
2. There is no elite class among Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the few 'anointed' among them enjoy no special privileges in their congregations on earth. An anointed person (one of those relative few with a heavenly hope) is not elevated above his fellow congregants in any way, and he may not even qualify for appointment as a simple 'deacon' or elder. There are no titles; EVERYONE is addressed as 'brother' or 'sister'.
3. No person benefits economically from the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the 8 to 20 men who serve on their Governing Body receive simply room, board, medical care, and reimbursement for certain personal expenses according to the exact same provision as every other branch volunteer.
4. About a hundred men have served on Jehovah's Witnesses' Governing Body committee during the past 125 years or so. The vast majority of them have spent the vast majority of their adult lives volunteering for their organization's purposes, and the vast majority have died faithfully and near-pennilessly while still under their legal 'vow of poverty'.
5. Amazingly, Jehovah's Witnesses did not splinter as a sect from some other religion. Instead, a truly tiny but sincere group of bible students studied only the Scriptures to determine the will of God. Thus their religion remains absolutely independent of and not carrying the sins of Christendom's history, yet carries the authority of Christ's teachings.
6. Despite the distortions of anti-Witnesses, throughout their modern history Jehovah's Witnesses have refused to claim divine inspiration or infallibility for their teachings. They have pointed to the bible (and not any particular translation) as the only inspired infallible means of knowing God's thoughts. For over 125 years, their teachings have been presented as merely the results of sincere bible research by imperfect but godly humans.
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/article_07.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20040601/article_02.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/who.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm
2006-12-19 12:18:43 · answer #4 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Little man choose a relationship with Christ not religion. There's so many wars just because of religion. if we all just loved Chirst and not seperate into groups sooo many things could have been prevented. Pray about it. God Bless you.
2006-12-19 08:20:17 · answer #5 · answered by cuteness757 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
create your own. create a deity to symbolize all those attributes about yourself you would have amplified and glorified. then invent rites and rituals that induce you to meditate on those amplified and glorified attributes. then write a book of myths, morality tales, parables and rules and call it your "holy scriptures" then seek to become more like your perfect deity and adhere to the rules and believe in the stories you've written in your "holy book".
it takes more imaginative work to create your own religion but at least it would be yours and it'd be no less valid than any other religion.
2006-12-19 01:32:56 · answer #6 · answered by nebtet 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You shouldn't decide on a religion, by asking Yahoo answers.
You should get copies of the applicable books and read them. I would suggest you start with the Bible and read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John first. Once you have decided on which book. Try different churches and see what fits.
2006-12-19 01:28:08 · answer #7 · answered by mommy333 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Read I Cor. 1:1-17 and John 4:21 (but after reading the entire chapter). Just ask God to give you eyes to see and ears to hear....Read Matthew 13 also.
The religion won't save you...
2006-12-19 01:39:09 · answer #8 · answered by Ezekiel 29 bumfuzzle~ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would do some investigating, attend different churches & see which one you can relate to. There are many to choose from & I would not presume to choose for you. Spirituality, is more important to me then religion, but, I do attend a church, one where I feel comfortable with & upholds my spiritual beliefs.
2006-12-19 01:26:52 · answer #9 · answered by amom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a Christian. I was a protestant during my young life but became Catholic later as an adult. I did this after much study of Christian history and religion. I would propose the same to you.
2006-12-19 01:25:59 · answer #10 · answered by Danny H 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
do not adhere to any religion.for God so loved the world that he gave His only son Jesus that whoever believes in him will not perish but have everlasting life. so simply believe Jesus and his word in the bible
2006-12-19 01:32:45 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋