what is the word for the religion in which you believe in ahigher power, but that's about it? It starts with and A and its not aethiest. ohh, this is gonna bug me all night. first person to get it right gets the points!
2007-03-23 20:17:02 · 10 answers · asked by the oddity that is me 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
agnostic
2007-03-23 20:19:05 · answer #1 · answered by Oliver Kloz-Hoff 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Actually, the word is deist. The word you are probably thinking about is agnostic, but agnostics don't necessarily believe in a higher power. We believe that neither the existence nor the nonexistence of a god or gods can be proven. Many agnostics do not believe in a god, but there are plenty of Christian agnostics.
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2007-03-24 03:21:36 · answer #2 · answered by Weird Darryl 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Agnostic.
2007-03-24 03:21:28 · answer #3 · answered by Joa5 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Agnostic!
2007-03-24 03:20:33 · answer #4 · answered by Bliss. 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Agnostics don't believe in a higher power. > Deist.
2007-03-24 03:25:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sounds to me like the Alcoholics Anonymus type of religion. They have it in their statement.
THE TWELVE STEPS
OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol ï¾ that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
2007-03-24 03:27:15 · answer #6 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Agnostic is not sure what you belief. It's not taking a stance one way or another.
2007-03-24 04:38:19 · answer #7 · answered by caromelheart 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Religion requires belief in something that can't be proven. An agnostic has faith in something that can't be proven. Big, big difference. Faith without dogma.
"I don't know, but I have a good idea".
Oh, and AA/NA are "spiritual, not religious" programs.
2007-03-24 03:29:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Apostolic or Anglican...agnostic does not believe in God....
2007-03-24 03:45:56 · answer #9 · answered by sweetooth 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
agnostic
2007-03-24 03:23:52 · answer #10 · answered by Ash 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋