How do you know your faith is the right one? Normally we remain in the faith we were raised in?

Question

If my parents were Hindu, Muslim, or Jewish, chances are I would be too. I have faith that my belief is right and that I have the word of God in the Holy Bible, I'm sure those who have the Quran, Torah, etc. think the same thing. We all believe we are right, although some religions don't believe in the Son of God.

Answer 1

Jesus is a real historical figure documented miracles, documented Crucifixion, only thing left to faith is what happened three days later. I believe he rose again, So therefore has the power over life and death, no other religion can claim that.

Answer 2

You are on the verge of discovering something, you are just not letting it happen.

What gives you the "faith" that what you believe is right? Your parents and the culture you grew up in.

You were taught your faith.

What is faith? A belief not based on proof.

Unless you can proove the authorship of the Bible, it is proof of nothing, as anyone could have written it. For example, many of the books of the Bible are written by anonymous authors or people listed by first name only. Then, you have to trust that they somehow communed with God. It's a pretty big stretch if you actually think about it. I could go on about this topic, but I won't.

The fact is, all "revealed" religions require the same:

For you to believe someone is a messenger/prophet/savior from God simply because someone else said so.

And you also know that not all of those religions can be "true". So.... are any of them???

Answer 3

You stay in the faith you were raised in because you have been trained to not ask any questions, be good little children, say your prayers and believe all the BS the church pastors tell you.

You gotta start thinking for yourself, reading a few books outside of the bible, and eventually start asking questions about why events in the real world dont match whats in the bible. Thats when the stone starts rolling, and eventually you end up leaving because your eyes and your mind have finally been opened.

Its doesnt happen all at once. It usually takes several years. From the time I stopped going to church, and starting asking questions, to the time I finally accepted that the Bible was just a whole lot of fantasy stories, that yes Jesus was human, (not the son of God) therefore he did not rise from the dead, took me about 10 years.

I decided that I did beleive in a Supreme Being who created the universe, but then stepped back and let nature evolve and take its course. Humanity has done the rest. I had no name for this belief, but I still beleived it. Took me another 10 years to finally find a name for what I believed in.

Its called DEISM.

ETA

Diligently seek Him out and He will reveal Himself to you.
That is God's promise to us all.

I did seek him out. 10 years of asking, and not once did I hear any small still voice. But during that decade (the 1980s & early 1990s), I heard plenty about priests abusing children, about evangelists getting rich off donations that should be going to the poor people. My sister died at age 32 leaving 3 kids all under 5. Of course I asked God why, never received any answer. The wars, the horrors of the wars as they got worse and worse. Kuwait, Kosovo, Bosnia, Humanity was (and is still) so violent and God was doing NOTHING to stop it.

Oh yes I got the message. God did not reveal himself to me by a small still voice and there were certainly no dreams. Instead he has revealed himself to me in the wonderful nature of life. the bird, the trees and flowers, the mountains, the rivers, the countryside, and the stars in the universe.
Not the cities - where humanity lives like a rot and destroys the planet. On that evidence, I chose to accept the nature and the creator and ignore everything else.

Answer 4

Faith, by definition is yours to keep in whomever you want.

To those who say Christ was a historical figure, here are two questions:
1. Is there any proof that he actually rose from dead (other than stories claimed by his followers), performed the miracles bible talks about and was really the son of god?
2. Buddha was a historical figure as well, so was Akhenaten (the heretic pharaoh) and Mohammed who also claimed to know God's will. Will you believe in them?

Answer 5

Did Jesus rise from the dead? If He did, then Christianity is the ONLY true religion because Jesus said so. And if He rose from the dead, that validates His claim. But, as the Bible says:

1Cr 15:14 And if Christ be not risen, then [is] our preaching vain, and your faith [is] also vain.
15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith [is] vain; ye are yet in your sins. 18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. 19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

But, praise God, it GOES ON to say:

1Cr 15:20 ¶ But now is Christ risen from the dead, [and] become the firstfruits of them that slept.

Answer 6

The key to it is to allow God to reveal Himself to you. He does this through His Scriptures. Do what God says in His Word. Don't do what your parents do or your neighbors do. Read Gods Word and Pray about it. Tell God you are serious about knowing Him personally and intimately. Ask Him to forgive you for every thought or action you have ever thought or done, that does not line up with His Words to you. Diligently seek Him out and He will reveal Himself to you. That is God's promise to us all.

Answer 7

Sounds like you are staring to think like an education person. Pretty soon you will realize that all religions are ridiclious. They were all created by man. People cant accept the fact that their life is not more important than a monkey. We are are born, life and die, thats it.

Answer 8

I wasn't brought up in any faith. My mother is an agnostic, and her mother is an atheist. I converted to Catholicism at age 32 after trying to prove it false but failing to do so.

Answer 9

I took a time of self reflection and found the religion that most closely paralleled my morals - Wicca. I was brought up Baptist, but it never really fit for me.

Answer 10

We all have the responsibility to find out on our own if we're in the truth. Mom & Dad could've been wrong. I was raised Roman Catholic, but upon investigation...I realized it was wrong. If you have the true faith, it will stand up under rigorous investigation.