(to everyone of every religion even atheists)How do you know?

Question

How do you know your faith (or absence thereof) is the truth? Please, I dont want preaching, I am happy with my own beliefs. I am just curious how everyones faith came about.
I know pretty much every religious scripture says it is true, but how do you KNOW it? I could write a text and say it is the true word of God, but it wouldnt be worth the paper its written on until someone believes it. Can you help?

Answer 1

For myself, It's not about what I know to be "true", It's about what I don't know. I have studied many religions in order to find the "truth". What I have found is a common thread uniting all belief systems throughout the world. The only difference I have found in my studies is that people explain their spiritual understanding based on local culture and geographical differences. I believe that true spirituality is behind all dogma. God (he,she or they) is still God Universal.

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." Dalai Lama

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all." Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)

Answer 2

Because I have looked for answers and I have found them. None of the the answers come from any holy book. If you research the true history of human kind you will see a very close ties between most all religions. With that in mind how can you say yours is true. If you were born in Egypt in the time of Cleopatra you know for a fact you would believe in many gods. So knowing this how can you be sure your's is correct? You can't. Besides all that bs about religions and proving them wrong the fact of the matter is I am a realist and there is absolutly no evidence that a god exists. That is all we have to go by to make it through everyday. Pure tangilbe evidence of our surroundings. Now you may say well you have to have faith...to me that is a copout. Faith is the process of non-thinking. If you can't see it, smell it, taste it, feel it, or hear it then it isn't reality. Say what you want, you can not argue that. Period.

Answer 3

Believing anything does not make it true. A theory that doesn't explain, that has logical contradictions or denies the evidence of the senses is false. Humans can only get to the truth by conceptual thinking. The existence or non existence of God, for example, has no bearing on morality, productivity, happiness, values, love, honesty, or anything that is for life and important. But the logical manner in which we reason has every implication on these important things of our life.

Only when someone says that you must believe (instead of reason) does the problem of God begins. Once you abdicate your mind to a superior consciousness or authority, you must follow precepts that may be wrong or contradictory, but your judgment, being impaired by intense faith, can no longer detect the difference between truth and falsehood, fact and opinion, reality and fantasy.

Answer 4

I'm sure the most used word for this question will be "faith", which really isn't an answer, but I'm guessing it will be what most will fall back upon. In reality, I don't think anyone can know for sure if it's the truth or not. You believe what you do because of life experiences, or because it's what you have been told to believe. Nothing in life is for sure, so I guess we sit back and wait to see what happens. You are always going to ask questions to yourself and others asking if what you believe is really the right thing to believe. I know there will be people saying, "Oh no, I know it's true." But, do you really? It's only human to question things.

Answer 5

I know because when I was confused about God and truth God led me to find his truthand after researching it for quite a few years now the truth I have found, the more I look into it, the more remarkable it shows up to be! There is nothing else in the world that truly can compare, Truth is in the Bible for all and the paper it is written in is worthless if it is not looked into and without with out help from God to understand it! or if you expect the wrong god to help you with it, although the wrong god knows what is in the Bible he misleads people away from it so that he can get their worship for himself even though by doing so he is leading them into death and miss out on the benefits of truth! I truly is a very serious thing, to make sure that we are trully believing what is true and not oppinion either opinion of others or our own oppinions!

Answer 6

If any one asks that Christians most effective reply, then I do not, when you consider that I'm no longer. I'm pagan, and I do not evangelise. I admire the request if it is honest. But a few like to stir the pot, and it may be amusing to leap in for slightly. Lively dialogue and all, and a few questions result in it. There are one million web sites, chatboards, and yahoogroups on the internet. When I get worn out of this discussion board, I cross do anything else. I do not assume yahoo solutions to be whatever it is not. Or I cross take a stroll. Or speak to any one in individual. Read a guide. You could must arise with anything new, when you consider that that is what it's, and it is not going to difference.

Answer 7

I do not have faith. Faith is conditioned ideas about something to which can not be proven!

I am a Satanist. I know it is right for me because my philosophy is based not on what some ancient idiot said but on what I have concluded based on my experiences and research into philosophy, sociology and science!

Life is not about a God that doesn't exist but in doing what makes us happy. What this world needs is not a monotheistic religion that has people killing in the name of their nonexistant God. Instead people must learn to be responcibile for their actions! If you harm another telling some fairy tale God gthat you are sorry does the person you hurt NO GOOD!! You must attone for your actions!!!

Answer 8

Well I was batpized Romanian Orthodox and raised in a Lutheran Church school and went on a long trek looking at philosophies in the world and read a lot of books including the Bible, but the things that got to me were the ways I was thrust out of harms way time and time again by an unseen force. I had an explosive go off in my hands and it didn't harm me or my ears. I can play guitar and piano because of that. I was pushed out of the way of some auto accients. So my faith is earned with respect and thanks.

Answer 9

Actually, faith is knowing something without proof. After I got saved, there was a lot of proof revealed to me that really could not be explained in a humanly way. So I really don't think there is a way to prove it to someone else. They have to find out the proof for themselves. I was asked this question once, If there was only one airplane available for you, but you were told that the airplane had a fifty per cent chance of crashing, would you get on it? We can choose to believe or not to believe, but what have we got to lose if we choose to believe and it turns out not to be true?

Answer 10

I have studied many religions and Krishna Consciousness (Bhakti yoga) (devotional service to God Krishna. who has many names. Has more information about God than any other scripture I have read. It tells one what we do in the spiritual world and we practice that. I believe it is true because everything is their and it all makes sense. Not like so many mistranslations of so many other religions. It also has a disciplic lineage which stems all the way back to the Holy Appearance of Lord Krishna 5,000 years ago. It is the oldest religion. all other religions stem from it unannounced to them.