people believe in god because they are superstitious. but christians arn't suppose to be superstitious but they believe in god...... got my drift?? very contradicting leh...
2007-02-04 21:53:02 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Dear Jasmine,
I am a born again Christian.
I am NOT in the least bit superstitous.
It sounds to me as though you are generalizing based on what you have observed people who call themselves "Christians" do. I have seen this too and it makes me very sad.
Those people follow a manmade religion but they are not in a Relationship with the awesome uncreated Creator of the universe.
It is sad but I realize that God is still perfecting that which concerns His creation. We are Works-In-Progress so I'm not going to judge them but at the same time I'm not going to participate in their non-biblical activities.
Rather I'm going to keep drawing nearer to the Author of life and hope that others will notice and say "I want to have the same type of relationship with God that you have." Eliminating false belief happens one step, one person at a time.
2007-02-05 01:02:51 · answer #1 · answered by JOYfilled - Romans 8:28 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Our faith is based on truth and historical fact, and the evidence can be found in non-biblical texts as well (from both hostile and neutral sources). The men who penned the gospels did so at great risk to their own lives. All except for John, I believe, suffered brutal deaths for their faith. Rational men will not undergo agony in order to propagate a book of superstitions or fairytales. However, brave men will risk death for something they know to be true. When Jesus was arrested, His disciples scattered because they were afraid of suffering the same fate - crucifixtion. It was only after they had seen the resurrected Christ that they took courage and were fearless in spreading the gospels.
Missionaries in foreign countries today are imprisioned and tortured for their faith. Do you seriously think they suffer beatings, torture, and mutilations for superstitions?
2007-02-04 22:15:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Supersitions are based on an irrational fear of the unknown = I will have bad luck if I walk under a ladder.
Christianity is based on the historical events surrounding a man who lived 2000 years ago = Jesus Christ. You can read about this for yourself and think about whether you think the evidence adds up.
Check it out and follow the evidence where you think it leads. The unknown can be scary, but there is no need to be superstitious about it! :-)
2007-02-04 22:02:24 · answer #3 · answered by Deckard 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Believe in God isn't superstition, it's the truth. Superstitions are a form of spiritism, either trying to get good luck or stop bad luck and all spiritism is against God. The reason, is that all spiritism is connected to demons and communicating with them.
Deuteronomy 18:10-12
There should not be found in you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, anyone who employs divination, a practicer of magic or anyone who looks for omens or a sorcerer, or one who binds others with a spell or anyone who consults a spirit medium or a professional foreteller of events or anyone who inquires of the dead. For everybody doing these things is something detestable to Jehovah, and on account of these detestable things Jehovah your God is driving them away from before you.
1 Corinthians 10:21
YOU cannot be drinking the cup of Jehovah and the cup of demons; YOU cannot be partaking of “the table of Jehovah” and the table of demons.
2007-02-04 22:17:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because they believe in a God that produces results and is capable of communication.
As St. :Paul said, quoting a Greek poet: In Him we live and move and have our being. Or as an old hymn notes: ...And He walks with me and He talks with me, and He tells me I am His own. And the joy we share as we tarry there; none other has ever known. I find no contradictions or disappointments in Jesus.
2007-02-04 22:20:38 · answer #5 · answered by Tommy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing superstitious about God. God is a fact. The Bible is the Word of God and I believe in the Word.
2007-02-04 21:57:48 · answer #6 · answered by tracy211968 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Depends on your definition of superstitious. By most renderings, belief in God is not a superstition at all.
2007-02-04 21:55:28 · answer #7 · answered by NONAME 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
No, not if you understand the meaning of the word "superstition".
1. a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the ominous significance of a particular thing, circumstance, occurrence, proceeding, or the like.
2. a system or collection of such beliefs.
3. a custom or act based on such a belief.
4. irrational fear of what is unknown or mysterious, esp. in connection with religion.
5. any blindly accepted belief or notion.
There is no contraction here. Christianity is based on superstition, and Christians are superstitious.
Non-Believers
"Where No Religion is a Good Thing"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Non-Believers/
2007-02-04 21:59:03 · answer #8 · answered by ? 1 · 2⤊ 3⤋
We believe in a documented, witnessed proof.
You are showing your ignorance
2007-02-04 22:17:31 · answer #9 · answered by kenny p 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2016-11-02 09:06:33 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋