What made you choose your religion?

Question

I mean what REALLY did it for you? What truly made the faith seem so real to you?

Answer 1

My deities. I worshiped my deities, then one day I found others who worshiped the same deities and who had similar views that I do. It was great--I felt as if I "came home".

Answer 2

When I realized I couldn't be good on my own. That there was a God who loved me enough to take on flesh, see how hard it was to live in this world & care enough to allow his own blood to be shed that I might have a hope beyond this life & purpose while here beyond just existing and/or suffering. I'll never be perfect this side of heaven but like a mother loves her children, he loves me-unconditionally. I've witnessed many miracles in my life but most I never saw until looking back with a changed attitude. Now I see them daily because I've learned through faith sometimes a miracle can be as simple as a something bad that could've happened but didn't. I clearly remember my daughter's second Christmas coming & being so broke I thought we would be both hungry & homeless. I thought there was no God. I was literally on the floor weeping when suddenly I heard a voice say; "if I'm not here then why are you praying to me?" At first I looked around. The voice had been so audible. I flipped the Bible open & it fell on God telling Moses to stand firm & see his salvation that day. Then I started laughing. I thought I was going nuts. But you know what? Two days later not only were my bills paid but we had a tree, gifts & a big dinner. I had told no one but the Lord about my needs & I wasn't going to church anywhere. Yet 3 or 4 different churches had showed up with gifts & food & various family & friends came by & said they had just felt like buying us a gift & couldn't decide what so decided to give me some money instead. I still don't remember all the particulars, just the end results. To some people God is big enough to take care of the world. But to me He's big enough to take care of everyone as if they were the only one.

Answer 3

This is a long story but i will give the high lights, I was burnt up in a car fire and in the hospital I saw the devil and when I got out I started searching because i did not know that it was the devil , I thought I was being abducted by an alien, but 7 years later after searching through all the ancient tex i could find, I stumbled across Luke ch 4 and is were the devil tempts Jesus, and he said the same exact things to me 7 years earlier in the hospital, I really started reading and Found Jesus in John and received his Holy spirit in acts 2 and John 3 and then it was on, everything in the Bile starting making sense, why because of his holy spirit, that's what it is all about.Get this spirit and the rest comes to light.

Answer 4

Years of studying the teachings of this and that, the Holy Spirit had been calling from within me for a long time! I couldn't separate the Truth from all the lies, during this time I was a miserable and nasty person even. I found a site that sounded right, but seemed wrong according to all other teachings I had experienced. So I Started to read the scriptures again. It felt as if I had never read them before, everything just started making sense! I started thanking God at that very moment and praying to Jesus that I stay in the Truth forever!

Answer 5

Much like "Biblehelp"

The scriptures say that God draws people to his son:

"No man can come to me unless the Father, who sent me, draws him" -John 6:44

Those who are truely looking for answers can find them.
I studied for 8 months solid until I started to ask about being baptized as one of Jehovah's Witnesses.

I had to overcome alot of things that, in my former life, held me back from being pleasing to God. During and after my study I started to see things for how they truely are.

I wondered about the literal thousands of different religions and why they even exsist. I learned that not all are pleasing to God and they are measured by not ecclesiastical law, but what it written in God's Holy Word.

I learned who will go to Heaven and why, that the dead are not suffering in a hellfire, no matter how bad they were and that this wonderful planet will be made into a paradise. Not just an area that Adam and Eve could have spread to the literal ends of the earth.

I learned that Jehovah God is not a part of a Trinity. Why would he take on the same facets of the false gods that are named in the Bible? The Trinity goes way back to Egypt and Babylon.

If you really love someone you have to spend time learning about them. Their personality and how they expect you to conduct yourself around them. Doesn't everyone have friends that get upset when you do something that you know they will not like?

Why would God be any different? Look, if everyone truely wanted to find the truth they could, but people, even faced with the truth will still continue to make bad decisions.

Case in point?

"And the magic-practicing priests tried to do the same by their secret arts, in order to bring forth gnats, but they were unable. And the gnats came to be on man and beast. Hence the magic-practicing priests said to Phar′aoh: “It is the finger of God!” But Phar′aoh’s heart continued to be obstinate, and he did not listen to them, just as Jehovah had spoken."Exodus 8:18-19

Yes, faced with so many plagues, but still he, against his better judgement (as he himself was viewed as a god) continued in a bad course.

More than that there is the scores of fulfilled prophecy!
I mean, if someone always tells you the truth and you can see that from the proof that has been recorded and left secularly why would you not believe him long term?!?

Raised as a Methodist, it was more a social club and watching all the business people take there positions in the church than learning God's Will. I went all my life and don't recall one thing I remembered except for some corney song about "Aber Aber Ham Ham Ham!!!"

The organization I belong to has purpose. The nearing 7 million world wide (not separated by color or culture) are preaching the Good News Of God's Kingdom. They are having a part in fulfilling yet another Bible Prophecy that is being fulfilled in our day.

As a part of the three part question posed by His disciples at Matthew 24:3 - Jesus went on to tell them many things.

The one notable is this:

"And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come." -Matthew 24:14

Here is an excellent article you can read online now:
Why Look To The Bible For Guidance?
http://www.watchtower.org/e/200601b/article_01.htm

There are several other reasons, however, this will have to do for now. Oh, and regardless of what people think we are a very happy people and our life has pupose as well. We live similar lives to others however, there is one thing that is much different:

“Keep on, then, seeking first the kingdom and his righteousness, and all these [other] things will be added to YOU" - Matthew 6:33

Yes, the other things that we really need such as food, clothing and shelter are not things that we overly worry about such as those "determine to be rich" -1 Timothy 6:9-10

Thanks for the question!

Answer 6

I did not chose? I thought I was happy in the world? God pulled me into this life I live. And he takes care of my needs. I could not walk away if I tried. I would be dead if he did not take care of me. I have seen many miracles, I have spoken the words of God, I have been used as an angel to people, I have seen my mother, my brother, and my son healed when doctors said they were dying. I have spoken in tongues, given greater understanding than I thought possible, and I know things that only I know. But I do not trust in any of this. I trust only in the fact that I am being lead day by day by my Father in Heaven. I also dream the future of my own life often. But also the Bible is a book of promises to any that can believe in them. And I believe that with God all things are possible. I've been to Heaven and Ive been to Hell , but none of any that means much to compare to getting a Revelation of who God is and my purpose of being on earth.

Answer 7

It was a shift, deep down inside of me. I felt all of my silly frustrations and stubborn opinions dissapear, like ripples fading away in a pool of water. My being was calm pure, and I could perceive things more clearly. This was my first succesful meditation. I later adopted Theravada Buddhism, and have since been studying other religions in order to find pieces of wisdom that resonate with and embellish upon the teachings of Buddha...

Answer 8

I no longer belong to organized religions as I saw too much hyprocracy in not only the congregations but in the leaders of the churches. I choose to wirship with my friends and family now. Church is not just a building on the other side of town we visit on Sunday but it is really a way of life walking in the light of God.

Answer 9

My parents chose my religion, which is my ancestral faith: Christianity. If I could chose my faith without hurting or offending my family, it would be Baha'i. I am growing everyday in faith otherwise.

Yes, I know its seem like a paradox.

Answer 10

christianity is the Word of the living God - there are a lot of different religions in the world but ask God the Father to forgive your sins and read the bible and pray every day and the Holy Spirit will lead you.
God bless you

Answer 11

I went to church growing up as a kid and believed the Bible. I had heard lies growing up all around me, but I knew the Bible was true. But when I got out of high school and started college, I quit church and started living very badly. I began drinking very heavily and was involved in immoral relationships. I smoked marijuana and then started doing LSD. One night I drank a six pack and dropped LSD by myself in my apartment. I was watching Ozzy singing "Going off the rails on a crazy train." I realized I was killing myself and did want to go off the rails on the crazy train, so I wanted to get off. I turned to the Lord Jesus and got my Bible out and read from Isaiah 53. It says, "All we like sheep have gone astray everyone unto his own way." Well that was pretty obvious. "and he hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." Jesus paid the price for my sins on the cross. He rose from the dead and is alive. I called upon the name of the Lord and was saved. Jesus delivered me in a powerful way from the drugs. I became very sober in my heart and mind even though I was seeing a lot of hallucinations. God gave me a peace in the midst of this storm that was unshakable and I knew that very hour that it was over and that God had changed my life already and it was going to be completely different because Jesus was now the Lord of my life. Jesus saved me and brought me out of all my troubles. The Holy Spirit lives in me and gives me victory over sin. Before I knew what was right and wrong but that knowledge was not able to help me when I was tempted because I really didn't care what happened to me so much. I didn't have the strength not to do wrong. But Jesus gives me that strength and gives me true understanding.

I could go on and on about how God has blessed me in the past nine years, but there is not the space for it here and the hour grows late. Today I am married to a beautiful woman who loves the Lord. I worship the Lord Jesus for who he is and praise him for what he has done for me and those I know.

God bless you.

Merry Christmas!

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