Question for all the deeply religious people..?

Question

this is just an honest question, i mean no disrepect by it. i wonder why are you so religious? is that because of your family, where did you get that "faith?" why do you need to believe in a god to set out how to live your life? Is it because you need guidance and a purpose in life?


please no cursing or ignorant talk here.

Answer 1

Religion and spirituality are two different things. Spirituality does not need religion, Religion does need spirituality. Faith does not need religion. Religion needs faith.
There is a very big difference between faith and religion. The people I know that are very very spiritual are people who have been up shits creak without a paddle and survived.
There are many very religious and pious people who have no faith at all they just go through the motions of ritual to look good and its a big ego thing, That OK at least there trying to improve themselves.
Everyone needs guidance people who don't have it,or us it are usually sociopaths.

Answer 2

This is the way I look at it.....as children we do as our parents do, and our up bringing sure does have a lot to do with our beliefs, but for me, there came a point where I did question it....thank god! My parents raised me to feel with my heart but use my mind too; to not be ignorant and afraid of other religions and peoples beliefs. So when I took a look at everything and decided for myself, I still chose what I had believed as a child but it was my choice! I know to some it really sounds weak or that I am living my life according to someone else. But I guess when I personally really felt God in my life and I had a real experience it was just enough for me to believe. I can't see God but I feel him in my life every day. When people ask me if I die and i followed the "wrong" religion or there just is no God wouldn't my life be wasted with so much time and energy into christianity? I guess I am not religious, but more a person of faith and I see no waste of time in being a good person and trying to be accepting of every person despite their beliefs or lifestyles like Christ would. I think a lot of people that are "religious" are like that too.....many aren't, but I think if you feel like you have guidance and a purpose in your life without any God you may do just fine and be happy and have everything you want....it's not like the religious live the good life and agnostics don't, but I think if you experience God once you will see that it is a love and just a feeling I guess that you can't describe and you will never understand how you missed. Just my thought...

Answer 3

My family was not religious. I am because I had proof that God does exist. I have seen the dead raised, the sick cured, etc. And I became an even more deeply religious person because I had more than one mystical experience of God's presence beginning when I visited a monastery. And no, I have never had a mental illness. I have chosen to live my life each day in a manner that will, by God's grace, make me a better human being and as one made in the image of God to awaken that image within me and live it in the world so that other may, as Mother Teresa said "see only Jesus". I am human and I do not do it perfectly, but Christianity is called "the way", and I hopefully am on it.

Peace.

Answer 4

I started life with Christian parents and was raised in the church, but this doesn't explain it all. I rebelled a number of times and now hold my faith by adult choice, not because I was exposed to it while young. If I ever got to the point that I did not believe in its basic beliefs, I would not continue in it. If I ever got to the point that I felt it was not true, I wouldn't continue in it. It is true that because I was exposed to Christianity while young I knew about that "worldview." But I also know about the evolution option (which I do not believe; I do not think it is science; I do not think it is scientifically possible--however, it is if you include God guiding evolution and empowering it; otherwise, no way). I know what it means to be an athiest--by the way atheist is an intellectually dishonest position. Atheists say there is not God. How do they know? Agnostic is a better position--"we just don't know."
I do not need religion to decide on a direction for my life. To live my life according to my beliefs is not a need; it is a choice.
To me, Christianity is the most accurate and credible explanation of life as we know it, all of it, not just select aspects.
If you do not believe in God or Christianity, where do you think evil comes from? If you do not believe that such a thing as evil exists, you're hopeless. I would say, open you eyes.
Here's one for you, do you believe that we live a mere 80 years, on the average (in the USA), each of us a unique person, mysterious and profound, only to die and cease being a person?
I don't. That to me would be ridiculous beyond belief.

Answer 5

Deeply religious? I don't know if I qualify, but I am a Christian who believes the Word of the Bible and believes there is a certain way I should live in order to please God. I don't always follow it or attend church as I should. So, I don't know if I'm the kind of person your question is targeted at, but I will answer nonetheless.

I was raised in a very strict Southern/Independent Baptist Church and home...but I rebelled against all of it in my early teen years and actually practiced a form of witchcraft for a while. It was not until I was so involved with doing evil things that I learned how real God was; and it wasn't until I wanted to change my life that I realized how much he loved me. For me, I turned to God out of choice and sought to make him happy to feel better about the relationship I had grown to need... I've seen both sides of the coin and for me it's not about "faith that there is a God", I know there's a God.

As for "having a need to believe in a God to set out how to live life", I can choose to live any way that I want, nothing stops me, I am fully capable of making any decision about living whatever I please. I was once worldy and lived day to day the way I felt was best to achieve success the way I felt I could obtain it...but then I reached a place where I was tired, tired of battling a war that might not even be necessary- so I gave it to God. I let God take control and lead me down the path that he created for me. It really wasn't a hard choice, I stumble, even stray at times, but I always return because I know what's best for me. I no longer fight life's battles alone or with the worry of the unknown ahead; and for me that's more than enough of a reason to seek to live life as God wants me to.

Answer 6

I think that the difference between the way I look at it and the way you look at it is I am looking towards God in as many things as I could think of. That's because it's a relationship. What you are saying is that I am 'religious.'

Many people who think that they follow after God think that they have to be 'religious'. They have their religious rituals and their religious timings to consider. Yet I do not look to rituals and timings religiously. I trust God, stay in the 'word', and go from day to day trusting God with anything in my life that I can trust him with.

So maybe I can shine a little light on the subject with you and describe the 'thing' that I do as a relatioship you are just discovering that is possible.

Did you ever think that it's something other than 'religion?'

Answer 7

well, lets see. my religion comes my family. my mom n dad's sides of the family were both are religious so I guess. also, I so religious because i want 2 and i have experienced somethin that most people ignore and juss go on 2 what their doin.

another reason is because:
1) I believe
2) I believe in heaven and hell and i don't plan on goin 2 hell
3) I have a purpose why i was on this earth and so do u even though u might not think so!
4) my n ur life depend on ur eternity in heaven or hell
5) we all weren't perfect but found a gift that changed us round 2 wat we are 2day

Answer 8

I discovered God on my own in my late 20's. I was at a low point in my life and out of desperation I gave God a try and he answered my call. He literally showed me the way. Ever since I've had a close relationship with God. He answers all my questions. He's like one of those Eight Balls that answer your questions. I seriously dont know how I lived without him for all those years.

Answer 9

for me its not about being religious its about having a relationship with God. A personal one. I dont want to go into my life story but the experiences that i have had in my life grow my faith in God thru Jesus everyday. God is beautiful to me and i can't imagine one day without Him being present in my life.

Answer 10

the reason why i am "deeply religious" is because i had nowhere else to go. i had commited a sin i felt was unforgivable and telling a friend was absolutely out of the question. i couldn't tell my family or go to therapy. i thought i had lost all hope.

but then i went on a youth retreat with my church. everything made sense after that. God would love me no matter what i did. he would forgive me and welcome me into his loving arms.

i am a devout methodist, and nothing can tear me away anymore.