why do some people formulate their own way of understanding God and build religion of their own?

Answer 1

Your option is to accept what someone else formulated as their own way of understanding God and the religion they built on this formulation.

How is this preferable to ones own understanding of God?

God is willing to form a close personal relationship with anyone who is willing to listen.

Many can't do this because they are too caught up in religious dogmatic nonsense to hear what God is saying to them.

Don't be one of these closed minded people. God wants a personal relationship with you too.


love and blessings Don.

Answer 2

From this Christians perspective, going our own way is one evidence that can be pointed to of what sin really is.

The old story, the Knowledge of Good and Evil, was insinuated upon the ancestors, and the subjective opinion of humans has been around ever since.

We see ourselves as 'god' at times, making our opinion the point that must be the 'right' one.

In essence, Satan was right is saying that we would become like God. We became the judges of everything we see. Our view has to be the right one. And we departed from the communion that we had with God.

For example:
I was just reading this in the Old Testament:
Genesis 12:1 The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you.

And what did Abram do?
Genesis 12:4 So Abram departed as the Lord had instructed, and Lot went with him.

Lot was a relative of Abram. Abram was an uncle to Lot.

See the significance? Abram took Lot and wasn't given the land that God promised him until Lot and Abram parted.

And Abram probably thought that there would be no harm in it. But Lot would be a source of Abram's trouble in his near future.

That's what we people do. We know what was said to us, and make our own way according to our impulses. In relation to what you were talking about, the nature of what Abram did with Lot is the same kind of thing that we carry around in us in our own lives. We want the our opinion to be the right one. Some are leaders of other people, and they subject their opinion on those that are willing to follow. Jim Jones, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, etc. all had persuasion over people and the people suffered for the leadership that was involved in their choice.

All we can do is trust God to provide us with the right way, and study what is there, remaining open to the idea that we could be wrong. Eventually, I believe, we can come closest to whatever the truth is IF we remain pliable to what we are discovering. Ironically, through the time spent in scripture, I find that it strengthens our position by ridding ourselves of the prideful ways of what sin brings to us.

Answer 3

I think most people do to an extent. A lot of what the dogmatic religions teach is clearly rubbish so it's often better to formulate ones own ideas.

Answer 4

i latterly left Christianity through looking the inaccuracies between what we are taught as Christians and the fact of what's written interior the Torah. i found out how the concept, as Christians, we understood what it replaced into to be Jewish, replaced into very fake. Then, whilst i began looking heavily at what the Jews have faith and their definitions of Messiah and different perspectives of G-d and existence, i found out that Christians twisted the Torah to fulfill their expectation and concept in Jesus. in spite of if this replaced into wakeful or not, it remains obtrusive that Christians did not persist with the standards for Messiah and stopped living their lives by using the ten commandments and Mitzvot.

Answer 5

Core tenants of the faith are not open to that kind of interpretation in most religions. Minor aspects may be expressed differently and that is how people can belong to a faith without losing individuality.

Answer 6

Because the religion of their own answers their spiritual questions.

If you look closely; Abraham made his own religion; and three different religions was begun by his descendants (Judiasm, Christianity, andIslam in that order)

Answer 7

Because they try to understand God with a carnal mind, & not a spiritual mind. The things of God has to to be understand with a spiritual mind.

Answer 8

Doesn't everyone try to understand the Divine in their own mind. Even Atheist who deny the existence of a Divine try to understand it so they can disprove it.

Blessed Be )O(

Answer 9

Well when their view of God has not already been made into a religion they make the religion and get followers so they dont have to worship alone.

(Or atleast thats what i did before i came to Islam)

Answer 10

It is because many people want to be able to bear the title of Christian but cannot abide by the rules set up by Christ as the example Christians are to live by.