What is your religion? How do you know it is the right one?

Question

Can you please give me a good reason.

Answer 1

The Bible is true because the Bible says that it's true.

Answer 2

There is no right religion for everyone and I cannot tell you what is right for you or anyone else.

Can I give you a good reason for my beliefs?

No.

There is no "good" reason for a religion that can be explained to another. Here is where communication breaks down. Belief cannot be defined.

I have been a Wiccan HP, have studied Druidism (only made it to first level Initiate), have studied the Native American spiritualities (I studied extensively and got much farther than most non-Natives), one of my friends is Pentacostal, another of them was Roman Catholic. I have read up on modern Satanism and found that it is not like most people believe. I have enjoyed long talks with Buddhaists and am an old traditional martial artist (that is VERY spiritual).

I am rather diversified.

What is the right RELIGION for me?

None.

I am very SPIRITUAL in nature but I follow no religion. I do not believe that organized religion is for me. I have incorporated all into my personal spirituality but, if you had to place a label on it, it would lean more towards the Native American spiritualities but my "roots" are in Wicca (I was an HP). However, I love hearing one of my friends tell me about Jesus... he sounded like he was a "cool dude" and I agree with his teachings. Do I believe he is all everyone says he is?

I do not know.

I vary from day to day from believing in diety to not. I am in a constant state of flux and learning with willingness to have my mind changed at any time if provided with data that encourages me to do so.

Answer 3

Atheist
I find too many contradictions in religious belief. I see religious people as conditioned and brainwashed. I was once religous, but have come to the realization that it is as primitive to believe that the world was "designed" by a supernatural being as it is to believe the earth is flat. There is just too much information available today to justify continuing to fill the gaps in our understanding of things with supernatural explanations. Read Dawkins' "The God Delusion" for more reasons why I am an atheist.

Answer 4

Hinduism is my religion, and I don't say that it is right for everybody. I believe that since we all have different personalities and needs, different religious paths can work for us. For me, I relate to Hinduism's teachings so much. I just kept being so impressed with the Hindu Scriptures, and the practices really make me feel more devoted to God, and they help me keep my eye on the higher goals of life. The religion feels the most natural to me of all the ones I've studied.

Answer 5

I don't have a religion. Period.

I know God.

Why would I have to prove my religion to you? Either you know God, or you don't. And if you are just hoping God exists - then you fall into the second group.

I could give you all the reasons in the world - but unless you chose to actually know God then it would be like screaming at a plant.

Answer 6

Christian, because whatever can be said about other religions, not one has a saviour who predicted and accomplished His own death on a cross for our sin, and His ressurection from the dead, as Jesus did. As the Apostle Paul wrote, "if Christ is not risen from the dead, our faith is useless, and we are still in our sins" and," we are of all men most to be pitied, because we have testified falsly that God has raised Christ from the dead, if indeed He has not". And Peter, on the day of pentecost, said, "there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under Heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved", speaking of Jesus.

Answer 7

If you force me to choose a description I will tell you I am a Pagan. My concept of spirituality is *really* fluid and I dislike trying to fit into the mainstream. I have a theology degree (Sacred Music - yes, it's a MS&M *heh*) and I worked in the mainstream liberal Christian Church for years.

Life experience and comparative religion classes taught me that there is no one RIGHT way and that with spirituality it was important for me to find my own path.

It's not the "right one" but it's "right for me".

Blessings,
Zimmi

Answer 8

I have no religion, I am a Child of the Living God through the redemption of and by Jesus Christ. Mine is the only faith that lets me fellowship with my Creator every single second I live, and that will be continued into eternity.

Answer 9

The true Church is the one founded by Jesus Christ. That happens to be the Catholic Church. It is the only Church that can prove a direct and unbroken line of succession from Jesus Christ to St. Peter up to the present pope.

The first Christians had no doubts about how to determine which was the true Church and which doctrines the true teachings of Christ. The test was simple: Just trace the apostolic succession of the claimants. Apostolic succession is the line of bishops stretching back to the apostles. All over the world, all Catholic bishops are part of a lineage that goes back to the time of the apostles, something that is impossible in Protestant denominations (most of which do not even claim to have bishops).

The role of apostolic succession in preserving true doctrine is illustrated in the Bible. To make sure that the apostles’ teachings would be passed down after the deaths of the apostles, Paul told Timothy, "[W]hat you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also" (2 Tim. 2:2). In this passage he refers to the first three generations of apostolic succession—his own generation, Timothy’s generation, and the generation Timothy will teach.

The Church Fathers, who were links in that chain of succession, regularly appealed to apostolic succession as a test for whether Catholics or heretics had correct doctrine. This was necessary because heretics simply put their own interpretations, even bizarre ones, on Scripture. Clearly, something other than Scripture had to be used as an ultimate test of doctrine in these cases.

Thus the early Church historian J. N. D. Kelly, a Protestant, writes, "[W]here in practice was [the] apostolic testimony or tradition to be found? . . . The most obvious answer was that the apostles had committed it orally to the Church, where it had been handed down from generation to generation. . . . Unlike the alleged secret tradition of the Gnostics, it was entirely public and open, having been entrusted by the apostles to their successors, and by these in turn to those who followed them, and was visible in the Church for all who cared to look for it" (Early Christian Doctrines, 37).

For the early Fathers, "the identity of the oral tradition with the original revelation is guaranteed by the unbroken succession of bishops in the great sees going back lineally to the apostles. . . . [A]n additional safeguard is supplied by the Holy Spirit, for the message committed was to the Church, and the Church is the home of the Spirit. Indeed, the Church’s bishops are . . . Spirit-endowed men who have been vouchsafed ‘an infallible charism of truth’" (ibid.).

Thus on the basis of experience the Fathers could be "profoundly convinced of the futility of arguing with heretics merely on the basis of Scripture. The skill and success with which they twisted its plain meaning made it impossible to reach any decisive conclusion in that field" (ibid., 41).

Pope Clement I
"Through countryside and city [the apostles] preached, and they appointed their earliest converts, testing them by the Spirit, to be the bishops and deacons of future believers. Nor was this a novelty, for bishops and deacons had been written about a long time earlier. . . . Our apostles knew through our Lord Jesus Christ that there would be strife for the office of bishop. For this reason, therefore, having received perfect foreknowledge, they appointed those who have already been mentioned and afterwards added the further provision that, if they should die, other approved men should succeed to their ministry" (Letter to the Corinthians 42:4–5, 44:1–3 [A.D. 80])

Peace and every blessing!

Answer 10

Roman Catholic. Jesus said, "Thou are Peter and upon this rock I shall build my Church, nd the gates of hell shal not prevai against it". Peter was the first Pope. The twelve apostles were the first bishops. The Roman Catholic Church is the Church that Jesus established on earth. Jesus is God the Son. Jesus said, "I and the Father are one." So, therefore, the Catholic Church is the true religion.

Answer 11

Neopagan Taoism. Exclusively tailored to describe my own personal beliefs which I came to on my own, taking what I've believed in all my life, filtered through experience and research and pointed at what I want to focus on. It's right because it's right for me.