How can someone just realize that they want to convert religions after being raised by another religion?

Question

So I don't quite understand why someone after being raised as a child would want to change their religion as an adult.

Because then that questions your faith before with your first religion and then it questions how strong your faith is after your religion.

Why did you change in the first place?

And how do you know if the religion you're practicing is right?

So really I'm asking about your faith, and why you believe in whatever religion you believe in.

Cause every religion is contradicting towards another.
And I don't want to seem biased cause I do have a religious affiliation. And I don't want offend anyone either.

Answer 1

When you are a child, you pretty much believe anything you are told by adults. As you grow older, you begin to question things that just don't seem right. I was raised Christian and when I became an adult, I began searching for truth. I found a teaching that answers every question I ever had that Christianity could not answer. It is my experience with the teachings and personally verifying what I have been taugh that has convinced me of the truth within these teachings.

Answer 2

A person can be raised in one faith, gone to Sunday school as a routine and heard more about that faith and so on. He might have had questions at that age but he never asked for fear of offending parents or others, or being singled out by the teacher or some one else. Time went along and he realized that faith is his personal thing and thinks that he has to be logically satisfied with all aspects of the faith he is supposed to believe in. If after growing, he realizes that the explanations of things in his faith of birth do not satisfy his mind then he either becomes an atheist in rebellion, or if he is in search of the truth, he may find another faith that satisfy his mind. If after though search he is still satisfied with his new found truth, why should he not embrace the truth he found.

Answer 3

Because if someone was raised up in a religion they didn't have much of a choice in it, their parents choose it for them. When they are an adult, they have a choice and more information to make an intelligent decision.

Don't assume that because someone changes religions that they never had faith in their childhood one, they may very well have. You cannot know what is in anyone's heart or mind. I never judge how strong a person believes in something, I take their word for it.

Me personally, I was raised a Christian when I was a child and have since switched to Paganism in adulthood. My reason for doing so is because I am more at peace and find more comfort in the Pagan gods.My beliefs are simple and elegant. I love Nature and believe in harming no one and living life to its fullest.

If someone finds that sort of peace in Christianity, then good for them. But it is not for me. I believe everyone must choose their own path in life.

Answer 4

It's very simple actually. As a child i was brought up Catholic, and when i did raise questions the adults got upset with me, as i was told to never question, that's just how things are. i fell away from it by high school. in college i decided to become protestant, and went to baptist, assembly of god, pentecostal, , just about every christian denomination you could think of. And again, i had sincere question/concerns and wanted to truly know and understand what it means to be a christian. And like my childhood, the christians got angry with me, and i was deeply hurt by people i thought were my friends.
it was then that i discovered i needed to broaden my horizons and keep an open mind. i looked into islam, judaism, wicca, and still looking......)
So in my experience it is pretty simple to break away from a faith you were raised in. To me, i think what makes it hard is finding the God that you have always wanted to know, get hints of the divine here and there, but can never seem to find.

Answer 5

It happened in third grade when they told me that all of the hypocrites that i went to church with were going to heaven, but all the good people that did not believe in my particular brand of Christianity were going to hell.

This left me with two possibilities.

1. Either God was an idiot.

Or.

2. Religion was just a lie about God.

After much deliberation I decided the God was probably not an idiot.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 6

im a convertor myself, and the reason i converted was because i found this religion more appropiate. everything made sense. and i was finally someone. i finally saw the point of life and who im living for. i had many many questions when i was a christian, and none of them were solved. but now, i feel more comfortable, i feel like im in peace. my religion offers many interesting things. and now i have faith for this religion. i never really had faith for chrisitianity, because nothing made sense, like being born with sins and stuff. now my religion is islam, and im quite happy, and i think u should check it out too

Answer 7

A woman asked, "Rabbi, what of those that follow other Teach-
ers?"
And He answered, smiling, "There are many rooms in your Father's
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house, and many fields in Heaven. And I come again, and yet again, and
as there are many languages of mankind, so are there many Names for
Deity. Rejoice in it, and be glad of the diversity of Deity, and do not
hate those that call the Diety by other names, but rather weigh them by
their deeds."
He taught of the Way of Salvation: to love. To love the Diety,
and to love your neighbor, whoever he might be.
He brought a message of hope to the poor, and a warning to the
opressor.

Answer 8

That was what I was scratching the surface on in my question. I only asked if they were forced, and if that was what may have caused anyone to actually resent church. Check those answers for the answer towards your question.

Answer 9

i think of the belief of the golden rule is a competent coaching....thogh christianity replaced into on no account the 1st to apply it or teach it. the best Samaritan is a huge tale, that's all approximately being type to those that have not got faith as you do. the myth of feeding a guy a fish as against coaching a guy to fish is a competent lesson to check.

Answer 10

People believe what makes most sense to them. So, if they find a religion that they feel makes more sense than the other.......they convert.