What is being spiritual? What is being Religious?

Question

Is their a different between the two?
Can you be spiritual with out being religious?

Answer 1

Being spiritual means being kind and compassionate. Being religious means talking about kindness and compassion but never actually practicing them.

Answer 2

Religious is the way you live, and spiritual are the activities that you perform according to the rules and regulations of the religious.

Being just spiritual is like being sentimental only, no any solid bases.

Answer 3

Being spiritual comes about by having the Holy Spirit enter your life as a result of salvation. It is a renewing of the heart, a change that gives you the desire to do the work of the lord in fulfilling His will. Being religious is having a preference or religion of which you desire to learn the teaching of the Bible.

Answer 4

SPIRITUAL — of the spirit or nonmaterial. The word spiritual refers to nonmaterial things, including a spiritual body (1 Cor. 15:44–46) and spiritual things as distinct from earthly goods (Rom. 15:27; 1 Cor. 9:11). But the most important use of the word is in reference to the Holy Spirit. The Spirit gave the law (Rom. 7:14) and supplied Israel with water and food (1 Cor. 10:3–4).
Our every blessing is from the Spirit (Eph. 1:3), as is our understanding of truth (1 Cor. 2:13–15; Col. 1:9). Our songs should be sung in the Spirit (Eph. 5:19; Col. 3:16), and our ability to understand Scripture correctly is given by the Spirit (Rev. 11:8). We are to be so dominated by the Spirit that we can be called spiritual (1 Cor. 2:15; Gal.
But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ [1 Cor. 2:15–16].
“He that is spiritual” is the one who has the Holy Spirit within him; he is a child of God.
He “judgeth all things” means that he understands these things. “Yet he himself is judged of no man” means that he is not understood. The spiritual man is in contrast to the natural man. He understands divine truth, but he is misunderstood by the natural man.

RELIGION — belief in and reverence for God or some supernatural power that is recognized as the creator and ruler of the universe; an organized system of doctrine with an approved pattern of behavior and a proper form of worship.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world [James 1:27].
This is a tremendous statement. “Pure” is the positive side, and “undefiled” is the negative side. You need to have both if you are to have the right kind of religion—and Christianity certainly ought to produce this.
“To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction.” This is the positive side. A child of God ought to be in personal contact with the sorrow of the world and the problems of the people of the world. This is where the politicians are very clever. They go out and meet the people and shake their hands. They make a personal contact. In the same way, Christians should be getting out where the people are. I feel there is a grave danger in our having a religion of the sanctuary but not a religion of the street. We need a religion of the street also. We should be in contact with the world in a personal way, with tenderness and kindness and helpfulness.
“And to keep himself unspotted from the world.” This now is the negative side. Contact with the world does not mean that we should become implicated in the things of the world. As believers we are in this world but we are not of this world.
McGee, J. V. 1991. Vol. 53: Thru the Bible commentary: The Epistles (James). Based on the Thru the Bible radio program. (electronic ed.). Thru the Bible commentary . Thomas Nelson: Nashville

Answer 5

1: relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity
2: of, relating to, or devoted to religious beliefs or observances
3 a: scrupulously and conscientiously faithful b: fervent, zealous


1: of, relating to, consisting of, or affecting the spirit : incorporeal
2 a: of or relating to sacred matters b: ecclesiastical rather than lay or temporal
3: concerned with religious values
4: related or joined in spirit
those are your definitions and yes non religious people have spiritual relevance sometimes if not always it's a matter of opinion for different people ...that's what I think....
5 a: of or relating to supernatural beings or phenomena b: of, relating to, or involving

Answer 6

IMHO spirituality is about taking personal responsibility - looking within yourself for understanding and answers.

- religion is about letting someone else tell you what the answers are.

Answer 7

spiritual is faith with no morals, religious is trying your best to adhere to the guidelines that your religion has laid for u

Answer 8

being spiritual is believing in little green men on an individual level
being religious is believing in little green men in an organized fashion

Answer 9

Knowing yourself, after that, when you are in peace with yourself you can try to make peace with your friends, and step by step, make the world a better place.