If I believe does that mean I have lost the truth?
2007-02-13 16:46:38 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thank you all, some very good answers.
2007-02-16 07:18:20 · update #1
If you rest with belief you risk allowing yourself to stop questioning what the truth is.
2007-02-15 00:31:03 · answer #1 · answered by James 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To believe is to open the door to truth, if you harbor the correct beliefs.
If you believe lies, this will close the door to truth and open the door to suffering.
You will never escape having beliefs, they are the paints with which we create our lives.
You can experience yourself apart from your beliefs, which is what most want in the first place, but even then, your beliefs about yourself will simply change and/or grow.
'Believe' then,that you are a being, unlimited by nature, born into flesh,space and time to materialize that nature as best you can. You create your life,and your point of power is in the present. There is incredible power within your own being and you are learning how to recognize and use it. Everything you need to know about yourself, your life,and your challenges and problems are within you.
---If you let yourself be fully convinced, in other words, if you fully believe my last statement, and having no doubts, you will experience it as truth.
2007-02-15 12:04:00 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To believe is to have knowledge without empirical proof. Who can say whether what you believe is true, it might be proved to be true one day or not. The point of belief is that you renounce the need for proof. You make a leap of faith.
What you must concern yourself with is subjective truth. Does your belief fulfil your own personal criteria for truth, does it feel right? If you can assess your belief logically, based on the information that is available to you and it still holds up to scrutiny, then that is as close to a spiritual "truth" as you can get.
2007-02-13 23:50:22 · answer #3 · answered by queenbee 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Believe in what? Truth is truth It is universal it can not be changed. So it depends in what you believe. Want the original teachings of Christ before king Constantine misconstrued everything. Go to gospelofthenazirenes.c for the Original New Testament.
2007-02-13 16:52:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe that may be so, or if the belief is in line with the truth, then you have gained more truth.
The Catch: No one really knows, that is why it is called believing (or not, as the case may be)!
--That Cheeky Lad
2007-02-13 16:49:25 · answer #5 · answered by Charles-CeeJay_UK_ USA/CheekyLad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do we believe? We believe because we have the knowledge and accept it. Sometimes, we believe by faith and it is unwavering. This does not make us unenlightened at all bu rather brings to the core that belief does come in many forms.
2007-02-13 18:03:12 · answer #6 · answered by Laralyn 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You may believe because you know or you may believe because you think you know. The first is based on experiancing truth, the second is deductive.
2007-02-13 17:07:28 · answer #7 · answered by Edward J 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1.Blind belief stops the search for the truth .
2007-02-13 16:54:20 · answer #8 · answered by binda 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Belief is the beginning of truth. Revelation is the full manifestation.
2007-02-13 16:50:45 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
To believe in a religion is to block yourself from truth.
2007-02-13 16:51:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋