In the Christian community I've met superstitious and sincere, in your own words, what determines a difference

Question

Superstitious versus sincere...

Answer 1

What is needed is enlightened knowledge of the Scriptures through the Holy Spirit. Both the ignorant and enlightened may be sincere, but some are sincerely wrong.

Answer 2

Superstitious means make-belief, not true. Sincere means being true with your emotions. Well, I for myself do pray sincerely yet I do have beliefs that for me are true and really happening, but others look at me as psychologically troubled and what I do is superstition. Perhaps you are not a Christian, so you look at us superstitious. Your religion and culture affect you somehow. In any place in this world, whatever religion or race, we are sometimes sincere and not.

Answer 3

There's no trade-off between the two. A person can be both superstitious and sincere at the same time.

Sincerity is when you have honesty; superstitiousness is when you believe one thing can affect another without any actual causation between the two. (like breaking a mirror bringing bad luck)

Answer 4

yeah, there is definitely a difference in personalities. People who are sincere would be good people anyway, they just like the rallying point religion provides. People who are superstitious would be closed-minded jerks anyway, they just feel better with supposed divine authority behind their beliefs.

Answer 5

If you mean the difference between those who believe because they are scared of the consequences versus those who believe because of the rewards, I think the difference is in the greater level of self-delusion that the sincere have.

Answer 6

Superstitious people are generally more since, if you mean sincere to be "belief".

However, if you mean sincere to be "truly loving God" (not pretending - see Mat 7:21-23), then scripture answers better than I can (since they are the words I personally prefer):

1Jn 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

and this leads to:

1Jn 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
1Jn 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
1Jn 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

In summation, whomever is sincere keeps God's commandments. I hope that this answers your question.

Answer 7

What?? I don't understand your question. Sincerity has nothing to do with superstition.

Sandy

Answer 8

deeds