Does your belief system come from your parents or did you form your own?

Answer 1

Good question...I had no religious background at all, but was presented with the opportunity to study the Bible with J.W's.
I set out to find a chink in their teachings but failed. I have now been baptised 15 years. blind faith it was NOT.
Just too many scriptures throughout the total bible fit too well. How could 40 bible writers over 1500 years be so co-ordinated? It HAs to be inspired of God.

Answer 2

I formed my own. Both of my parents are christian and I am, well, not labeled. I have my own belief structure that I spent a great deal of time developing by studying the beliefs and ideas of other people combining them and expanding on them. I am very proud of my work thus far, but there is always more to learn and understand. So, my views will change and grow as I continue on my spiritual journey. By keeping an open mind and not limiting myself to any particular belief structure, I keep myself spiritually alive and growing.

Answer 3

Every kid with a family who practices religion will be indoctrinated into that religion in his/her early development. It is when logic and "religious logic" cross paths does a kid start to question his/her religion often either modifying beliefs on his/her religion, changing to another religion, or wholly doing away with religion altogether.

I am from Option C.
So while at first my belief system came from my parents, luckily I was born with a doubting critical mind and began to form my own belief system in my teens.
No longer religious while objectively seeing some social benefits to religion and obviously seeing the social costs FROM religion.

John Lucas

Answer 4

Parents. But as I grew I confirmed it by my own studies and relationship to God. God has designed that parents teach it to their children. That is the way it is supposed to work.
Eph 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Answer 5

Formed my own. My parents have no faith; I began going to church and became a Christian at the age of 19, following God rescuing me from almost-certain death in the intensive care unit...

Answer 6

my parents raised me to be catholic. all educational intitutions i studied from where catholic except for my culinary education.
the more i studied about god, the more questions i had and more doubts surfaced.
catholicism teaches you to owe everything to god so if you like get a perfect score in an exam, catholicism makes you owe everthing good about the exam to god even though you were the one who did all the studying and i find that shitty. i guess all religions teach the same thing, they teach you to be weak.
just an advice, if you believe in the existence of any god who i guess would almost always be intangible, then leave it that way. recognize its "existence" if you will, then leave it that way. just put in mind that everything that happens in your life is of your own doing, not from some ornate being.
try leaning on to agnosticism.

Answer 7

Completely my own. While my mom is catholic now, when we were growing up I can count on one hand how mny times we went to church. And although I'm a christian, I feel more comfortable as a Baptist. Not that I think my mom is wrong in her beliefs, but I feel more comfortable in mine.

Answer 8

My parents were devot catholics, it took me ten years to cast off the shackles, and another half dozen to shed the idea of God altogether.

Atheist now for around 25-30 years

Answer 9

My parents started me out Catholic, but I'm where I'm at now because of my own decisions.

Answer 10

From my parents initially but I've rejected most of what they believe when i entered the real world and got an education