Explain your religion in detail?

Question

I have realized how little I know about other religions, and I would like to know where other people are coming from, especially in evangelism. To that end, I would like people to provide detailed descriptions of your non-Christian Religion, or Christian denomination (especially Catholicism).

Answer 1

I'm Roman Catholic, born and raised. Below is the Nicean creed which is what we believe. We recite this at mass. Another form of it is part of the baptismal ceremony (basically the statements are in question form). Baptism, you might say, is when you officially become part of the Catholic church.

We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
one in Being with the Father.
Through him all things were made.
For us men and for our salvation
he came down from heaven
by the power of the Holy Spirit
he was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered, died, and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
in fulfilment of the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of Life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son.
With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified.
He has spoken through the Prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come. Amen.

Answer 2

We Catholics are not actually that different from Protestants or the Orthodox churches. We believe in only ONE God, we pray, and we study the Bible. People tend to us though, claiming we worship the saints, the Pope, and Mary. The Pope is just a leader, sort of like a religious president. We only honor the saints and ask them to pray for us, because they are human and went through some of the same things we do. Unlike Protestants, we believe that during the Eucharist, the bread and wine actually is transformed into the real Body and of Christ. We go to Confession when we have sins because, although God does forgive us, our souls are still troubled until we confess. Everything in confession is completely private; you could confess a without fear of being reported. You do a penance afterwards to show that you truly repent.

Answer 3

I am a Wiccan, Wicca is a non-Abrahamic faith that is Earth based. We believe that everything is a part of the Divine. We believe in Karma and believe in reincarnation. We believe that all paths lead to the same place, it is just different scenery along the way. And no two of us honor the Divine in the same exact way. We believe in magick (spelled with a 'k' on purpose) but we know that magick is best explained as being akin to prayer except that we feel the power comes from within ourselves as opposed to asking for help from an outside source. We do not believe in going door to door recruiting. We believe the Earth is sacred and we must work to protect Her and help Her to heal. We have but one law, called the Wiccan Rede, which states: "An in it harm none, do as thou wilt".

If you are truly interested in knowing more about Wicca I would recommend reading "The Truth About Witchcraft Today" by Scott Cunningham.

BB )O(

Answer 4

I am a Jehovah's Witness. We believe in one God, Jehovah, the Father (Psalm 83:18) and in his only begotten son, Jesus Christ who has given his perfect human life as a ransom for us so that we might be able to be free from the sin which we inherited from Adam. We believe that God's holy spirit can help any person to find the truth in any translation/version of the Bible if the person sincerely asks God for understanding, prays through Jesus Christ and has the right motives in wanting to know. We believe that the earth was made for man and man for the earth and that most humans who survive Armegeddon will live here but that the earth will be cleansed and Satan will be abyssed. We believe that these survivors will be joined by resurrected ones so that they too might share in living forever. We believe that the Bible is God's letter to man and that it should be studied every day in order to have a good relationship with God and be the best person we can be in immitation of Jesus Christ. I would love to tell you more. Just e-mail me at [e-mail]

Answer 5

Christian Gnosticism:

> We are all created and loved unconditionally by God, His genetic heirs who are equal in his eyes.
> There is a Mother God, Azna who is the female emotional aspect of the Divine just as the Father God is the male intellectual aspect. The Mother God is not some knee-jerk invention of the 1970s. She has been recognized and revered for more than 20,000 years. It's similar to be belief in Catholocism, one God three parts: The Father, Son and Holy Ghost. We have the same belief, more or less.
> God is not mean, kind, or judgemental. Ever. Those qualities, like evil itself are strictly human devices and they are not the result of God turning away from us, but of our turning away from Him. There is a consequence for evil--not an eternity in a non existant place called "hell" but rather a self-imposed seperation from Home (our name for the afterlife... Heaven I guess) and even that self-imposed seperation does not last an eternity.
> The answers to questions like "How could a loving God be cruel to someone who doesn't deserve it?" Or "How could a loving God let this innocent baby or this wonderful person die so soon" is very simply--"He couldn't." We each compose a detailed chart of our upcoming lifetime while we are Home before we are born. Everything we expierence here on Earth, including our hardships and time of death are ultimately our choosing, not His.
> Obviously we believe in reincarnation. God in His perfection has made us imperfect for one reason: to learn. There is no possible way that we can learn everything He wants us to learn in one life so it only makes sense that we reincarnate a number of times to ultimately better ourself for God in his perfection. How many times we reincarnate are of course, completely our decision.
> No religion is better than another. We are all ultimately on the same path Home. What one believes, or doesn't believe, will not put a hinderence on our trip Home.


Yay! That's Gnosticism!
Grayson-Michael

Answer 6

Not sure how much detail you are looking for but I will give you a short summary...
I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
We believe in God the Eternal Father, in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost. We believe we are God's spirit children and chose to come to earth to gain a body, have mortal experiences and prove ourselves worthy to enter back into our Heavenly Father's presence. We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous and in doing good to all men. We believe that through the authority of the Holy Priesthood, which is essentially the power of God or to act in God's name, families can be together forever, marriages do not have to end at death. We believe Christ is our Savior, that he bled and suffered for our sins in the Garden of Gethsemane, that he sealed his suffering with his death and was crucified. We believe He rose the 3rd day and broke the bonds of death for all mankind, that we may be resurrected and have the chance to gain exaltation in our Father's kingdom.

There is MUCH more to what we believe, but that gives you a good idea hopefully. If you have any questions about LDS faith, I would be glad to answer.

Answer 7

I am a Catholic and I try to live by it's dogma. The two teachings of Christ I try to live by daily and stress to my daughter, are forgiveness and this one is important if you think about it, this is the golden rule Jesus preached and if the evangelist (especially those high in government) practised it the world would be safe and a lot more joyful. This is the teaching I refer to before I take any action in my daily life "Is this something I would applied to me? said about me? etc. It is actually worded do unto others as you would have done to yourself.
In this respect most high profile Evangelist fall very short. That is being a hypocrite, Jesus was critical of this.

Answer 8

I am an atheist. Ther is no god. There is no soul, no ghosts, no spirits, no afterlife, no force, no chi, nothing, zip, nada. I don't pray. I'm not trying to get centered. I'm not on a "quest." I'm not "spiritual." I'm a biological entity that functions as a part of a collective culture. When I die, my consciousness will cease to exist along with my body. Just like everything else that has ever lived or died on this planet.

Answer 9

thank you for the question
i am a spiritualist and as such believe in the continued existence of spirit proven through spirit communications
it is 3 fold.... a philosophy, religion and science
there are 7 principles to our religion which you may be familiar with actually ... as i feel at the core , most religions are not too different
http://www.snu.org.uk/seven.htm

Answer 10

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