What is the purpose of your religion? What Purpose does it give you? What does it say the purpose of Life is?

Question

Please Answer all of them, this is for a class report Thank you! If you are a pastor, rabbi, priest, imam or similar please let say as well.

What is your religion?
What does it say your purpose is?
What purpose does it give you (you feel)?
Does this purpose make your life better?
What sacrifices does it ask you to make?
For what payoff?
Do you 'believe' 100%?
Why do people convert to your religion?
Why do people leave your religion?

Thank you so much for answering!

Answer 1

Christian

To seek God and to enjoy Him forever

The feelings I get point to a reality but the feelings are not reality in themselves. Joy is the closest that could describe the feelings

Is my life better? My life is complete. It's like two people in love who say that their beloved makes them complete.

Sacrifices? It's like asking if it is a sacrifice to breathe or to eat.

The only payoff or reward for seeking God is to find God; the One who created me.

Believe is to hold as true. If we see our joy is in a fellowship or relationship with our Creator, then we have to hold as true that our Creator exists. If you get in a car with the hope of going to some particular place, you have to hold as true that you can get where you want to go otherwise you won't ever get there.

There is an inner struggle within all of us when we first hear that God created us. We have a longing to know this Person, yet we don't want this Person to tell us what to do. But we can't have it both ways. If we want to share the love of our Creator, we have to bow before Him as our Creator. When we make this decision to seek our Creator or to not seek Him, then we have also decided about Christianity or not.

Answer 2

What is your religion?

I study the teachings of Jesus from a book called the course in miracles.


What does it say your purpose is?

To learn the true meaning of love.

What purpose does it give you (you feel)?

A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.

After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.

Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.

I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.

I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.

If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.

I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.

Does this purpose make your life better?

Yes when I remember.

What sacrifices does it ask you to make?

Relinquish guilt and fear.

For what payoff?

Peace.

Do you 'believe' 100%?

900 percent.

Why do people convert to your religion?

Sick of all of the lies and limitations of conventional religion.

Why do people leave your religion?

They can't stand to let go of the guilt and fear that they cherish so much.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 3

1. Christianity
2. The purpose of life is the glorification of God.
3. I would say for me this means the purpose of life is the affirmation of life as God's creation.
4. I don't know. It just seems like the right thing to do, whether it makes my life better or not. Church-goers live longer, healthier lives than average, and one study found regular church-going women have more satisfactory sex lives than average, so I guess in general it probably makes life better, although it doesn't always seem that way.
5. It asks me to do the right thing regardless, and to share with others rather than keep material things all for myself.
6. For the payoff of doing God's will. The right thing.
7. Believe what? In God? Yes.
8. Don't know.
9. They go to churches where the rituals seem meaningless, and they don't really understand what it's about except in a superficial way, so they just don't "get it."

Answer 4

If you will go to Merriam-Webster's online dictionary, you will see that religion can be defined as "a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith", and faith can be defined as a "firm belief in something for which there is no proof". I believe ardently and with faith (since I cannot absolutely prove it) that there is no god. Atheism is my religion, and I am a strong atheist. A weak atheist would say they don't believe in, but I say I do believe there is no god. I hope you can understand the difference, since weak atheists can be compared to agnostics. I cannot be compared to them at all.
The purpose of my religion is to concentrate on this life and this life alone.
I feel it allows me to always look forward and to learn from mistakes of the past.
I sacrifice many things. I do not hide who I am, so there are many people, including family members, who shun me.
The payoff is that I do not feel constrained to perform tasks on certain days, so I can volunteer my time at the battered women's shelter and abused chidren's home whenever I want to do so. Also, I don't blame outside forces for terrible things, so I can seek to find an understanding of the root causes of these things.
I do believe 100%.
There are many reasons that people convert to my religion, but among the most popular follows. They feel that no other religion makes sense, they believe they have enough proof to deny any god's existence, and they believe the world's current state and past actions prove there is no god.
People turn to other religions for many reasons also. They may one day feel there may be a god, they may simply come to hope there is a god, or they may have sufficient proof to start believing in god.
I hope this helps.

Answer 5

Religion could be any( you can put the way u like). For instance people say Hinduism is a religion, which is not, it the way of living.

religion is a way of living.
It's purpose is it's teaching( studying about goddess of wealth or books). If u feel comfortable with what you worship or feel or preach your young ones, that's the purpose it serves or if u feel confident with those learnings that's religion.

Of course, u only follow a particular religion bcoz it gives u confidence, courage & lots of other moral support.

No sacrifice. No religion shud ask for any sacrifice. If u feel ur doing any, it's ur belief, bcoz God never asks for any.

it pays u in terms--of ur confidence, ur thinking, for what ur.

100% is not the answer, u r confident, so u believe in it. It gives to strength to think, that's how it wrks. Maybe u can say 100%, tht's ur perception.

Convert---mayb they r weak to understand their own religion or they r not well versed with their own religion.

I hope this helps you.

which grade is it for?

Answer 6

I'm a muslim, my religion is Islam
Islam means to submit to God, so we muslims have to submit completely to God and obey His commands.
Holy Koran says: "by remembering GOD, the hearts rejoice." (Koran 13:28) so we feel better if when we remember God, The Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Every year we should sacrifce a lifestock, usually a goat or a lamb, or even a cow or heifer, if we could. But it's not compulsory, i.e. in Eidul Adha, in dzul hijjah (the 12th month of Islamic calendar)
We pay 2.5% from our income ( the term is zakat)
I believe 99.9%

People usually convert to Islam because I think the concept of Islam is much simpler than, say, christianity.
In my country (Indonesia) there are so many poor muslims. Usually, the missionaries give some foods to these poor muslims in order they would be interested in christianity.

Please feel free to ask further questions about Islam, I would be glad to answer

Answer 7

LDS.

To attain eternal happiness through doing good to others and living as God commands rather than the temporary carnal fixes such as alcohol and drugs.

My personal happiness comes from striving to be the best I can be.

It offers different challenges that must be overcome. It can be tough but in the whole I am more succesful and find greater satisfaction in what I do.

Tithing and fasting. Service to others.

Blessings.

Not all the time.

Because we believe families can be together forever even in the afterlife, and after we are resurrected.

Don't like living the commandments.

Answer 8

ok well this is basicly your answer:

i am catholic and i believe that there is an all-powerful god up in heaven and i should thank him for what he has given me and pray and talk to him to thank him. my religion asks me to fast and go to mass. i dont fast but i go to mass 2 or 3 times a month. it is supposed to pay off in heaven, where i will be evaluated for all that i have done right or wrong, good and bad. i do believe 100%. we had to get here somehow and what better explanation could there be? it pains me to think of what it would be like if i died and nothing ever happened. people convert to catholocism because they believe in the concepts catholic people believe in and are preached to be the priests. people do not often leave. there is no reason i could think of for why anyone would leave

XOXOXO,
Hailey

Answer 9

Islam
To thank God for creating you, leave a peaceful life, abide by His rules/orders, be prepare for the life after the death.
To leave a peaceful life, not to do bad things (sin, crime, vise).

I feel mental peace.
Nothing but some time for prayer everyday, go to Mecca once in a lifetime, donate some money to the poor peoplel (if you are rich for the last 2 cases)
To be in heaven in the life after the death.
Yes.
For its simplicity and its goal.
I have not met anyone ever. But I have heard about very few. Most of them are very very poor people and they are given much money, good job and property for that conversion.

Answer 10

>>>What is your religion?>>>

Roman Catholicism.

>>>What does it say your purpose is?>>>

It says that my purpose is to get to Heaven. I came from God, and my religion is here to make sure I go back to Him.

>>>What purpose does it give you (you feel)?>>>

See above.

>>>Does this purpose make your life better?>>>

Yes, because following the moral teachings of Catholicism means that my life will be happier and healthier -- free from the worries of unwanted pregnancy or AIDS or prison or guilt or hurting other people, and so on.

>>>What sacrifices does it ask you to make?>>>

It asks me to put God and others ahead of myself.

>>>For what payoff?>>>

Peace of mind here, and eternal union with God after "here" is over.

>>>Do you 'believe' 100%?>>>

Yes.

>>>Why do people convert to your religion?>>>

For the reasons mentioned above, and because the doctrines make the most sense.

>>>Why do people leave your religion?>>>

Because they never really get to know it that well, and/or because they let themselves be scandalized out of their faith by the actions of "pedophile priests" or other "bad Catholics."

Good luck on your report.

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