religions-which one?

Question

There are so many religions and different beliefs/dominations out in the world today, how can i know which one God wants me to live by? or should i just stick to my bible and go by that? i was raised as christian/baptists beliefs. but there are so many more such as catholic methodist and jehova witness including others i cant think of right now. whats a girl to do?

Answer 1

Jehovah's Witnesses have the true religion. They are Christian (of course), but they are unique for their rejection of paganisms, use of God's personal name, and global preaching by every active adherent. No other religious organization can claim such purity of worship.

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

Answer 2

Reading your Bible every day and asking God for holy spirit to help you understand it is a very good place to start. Then, beginning with the faith of your childhood, carefully examine the practices and teachings in light of Bible truth. Most all churches print a list of at least their major beliefs. Use this list to keep accurate records for your own references. Then, examine those who profess to believe in this religion-not individually (because we are all imperfect) but as a whole. Do they believe what the Church teaches or are they there because of the chili cook off or because they like the minister's daughter or some other reason. If their motives appear to be good--how are they doing? Is what this church teaches making them a better person? Are they able to help others do better? Are they doing it?? All these things are important. There is not enough time in your lifetime to examine all religions in this way, but if your motives are pure and good and you truly pray and ask God to help you to sift out the bad and decide what is good, he will help you. Don't give up until you find the one religion that you know is true--and you are willing to risk your life on it because ultimately, that is what will happen. May God bless all your efforts to draw close to him.

Answer 3

How do I know which religion is right?

This is a difficult question to answer because it involves discussing some principles that the person you are witnessing to may or may not agree with. For example, does he or she agree with you that truth is knowable, that God would attempt to communicate with His people, or that only one religion may be right? Usually, I start by acknowledging the difficulty of coming to an easy answer. However, I tell them that I do have an answer; I am sure it is the right one, because it is an answer based on evidence. What kind of evidence? Prophecy and its fulfillment Jesus and His miracles, the resurrection of Christ, etc. Then I ask that person if he or she knows of these things happening in other religions.(1) The answer is invariably, "No." Then I point out that they have only happened in Christianity. If any religion were true, Christianity fits the bill.
Religion is whatever you feel is right.
How do you know what you feel is right? Haven't your feelings ever turned out to be wrong? Are you are saying that what you feel determines truth? If so, then you are putting yourself in the place of God, and looking to yourself for what you "feel" is right.
If religion is whatever you feel is right, then that could lead to chaos. What if some people had a religion where they felt stealing was acceptable? And what about lying and cheating? Would you trust someone who believed in a religion that felt it was alright to steal, lie, and cheat?
Hitler felt killing Jews was right. He was wrong. The Bible says that the heart is deceitful and untrustworthy (Jer. 17:9). If you could come to know truth by what you felt, then the Bible, which is the revelation of God, didn't need to be written. But, it has been written, and it has revealed that only God is the Source of truth, not your feelings.
I've never known truth to contradict itself. What if someone felt that something was right, and another person felt it was wrong? Would they both be right? If your statement is true, then how could there be a contradiction like that, if feelings determined truth?

Answer 4

Start with Jehovah's Witnesses.

http://www.watchtower.org/

If they have the truth, you will elimate 1000's of religions that are similiar with a few minor changes.

Protestant and Catholic both believe in the immortality of the soul.

Jesus taught it can be destroyed.

Matt 10:28 And do not become fearful of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; but rather be in fear of him that can destroy both soul and body in Ge·hen´na.

John 3:16 “For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, in order that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life.

The choice Jesus gave is life or destruction, not eternal torment.

Protestant and Catholic both believe in the trinity.

Jesus said to worship Jehovah your God.
Jesus 60 years after his resurrection still worshipped Jehovah.

Rev 3:12 “‘The one that conquers—I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will by no means go out [from it] anymore, and I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem which descends out of heaven from my God,

These are just two examples of why Jehovah' people are different.

These are just two examples of teaching only bible truths.

Both the immortality of the soul and the trinity are not taught by Jesus but are teaching of Plato.

The Living Pulpit observed: “Sometimes, it seems that everyone assumes that the doctrine of the trinity is standard Christian theological fare,” but it added that it is not “a biblical idea.”

Historian Arthur Weigall notes: "Jesus Christ never mentioned such a phenomenon, and nowhere in the New Testament does the word 'Trinity' appear. The idea was only adopted by the Church three hundred years after the death of our Lord."—The Paganism in Our Christianity.

In the preface to Edward Gibbon's History of Christianity, we read: "If Paganism was conquered by Christianity, it is equally true that Christianity was corrupted by Paganism. The pure Deism of the first Christians . . . was changed, by the Church of Rome, into the incomprehensible dogma of the trinity. Many of the pagan tenets, invented by the Egyptians and idealized by Plato, were retained as being worthy of belief."



I hope this helps you make up your mind.

Answer 5

Hi :) well I went through that too. I was raised by an agnostic mom and an atheist dad; then swung the pendulum...Lutheran (using a Jehovah Witness and/or Catholic Bibles-there is a difference!), to extreme Baptist, Church of Christ, etc...then I tried to turn away and get "rid" of God and all Christianity. Guess what? nothing "worked". I realized that He is my source for everything-peace, wisdom, life, truth, eternity. So, its all about HIM. NOT about ME or what I DO but about HIM and what he IS, what He has done and what he is DOING.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh blessed assurance-eternal rest!
Don't practice any religion-just be His child ;)
Soni

Answer 6

You obviously believe in God, since you are wondering which one He wants you to live by. So I suggest you do some indepth study of each of the God-believing religions:

Judaism, Christianity, Islam

Don't just look at a couple of websites. Read their books and talk to people who actually practice the religion. Ask tough questions and find out the reasons behind what they believe. And of course, pray for guidance along the way. You're off to a good start... may God guide you!

Answer 7

God doesn't care what religion you are under as long as you give yourself to him and his word and beleive that he will save you and take you to heave when you die. Find a demoniation that you feel most comfortable in by the beleifs that they hold, don't let your parents make you stay Baptist (which I am as well) if you don't agree with some of the teachings. You are right, there are so many out there so just hang in there in your search. You could ask your pastor what some of the differences are if you want to look into a change.

Answer 8

I think you should seriously investigate the major world religions. They are all divine in origin.

I am a Baha'i. The Baha'i Faith teaches that all religions come from the same God. They are all progressively revealed by God to humanity. The Messenger of God for this day and age is Baha'u'llah. His teachings will become the foundation of a new world civilization. See http://bahai.org/ for more information.

Answer 9

Jesus is the only one who proved that he was God by raising himself from the dead. Jesus is alive and sitting at the right hand of God in Heaven and interceding for you. All these other religions are changing the Bible to suit their beliefs. If you want to learn about the other religions that are counterfeit go to http://macgregorministries.org

Answer 10

I personally think that the attitude that ''which God will guide me for a religion of truth'' is not appropriate to select a religion.
The reason because in this world humans have been given complete right to choose and reject, so you will find in the history the prophet's own close relatives denying his words!!
So logically you have to struggle if you have a desire to find the reality and purpose of your birth. Our existence is not coincidence at all.