How did you choose your belief system?

Question

Did you choose one that "fit" you or did you change to "fit" the belief system?

Answer 1

I think it chose me in a way. I have been through many many "belief systems" in 47 years. No I wasn't forced to go to church or pick a religion when I was a kid...we just didn't talk about that subject. However at an early age I was really sure there is a God although I never liked the way "people" defined Him.

So in young adulthood I went looking in lots of different directions. Read the Torah and Bible and got caught up in the mainstream American Christian cult but realized after a few years that all I was learning there was to hate everybody who didn't agree with me. So then I explored all the "free flow" ideas out there, Anarchy, Paganism, Occultism...and eventually became a hard core Atheist.

Atheism turned me into a hateful empty shell with barely a soul...believing in NOTHING is a miserable existence.

After 9/11 (at which time I was also going through a divorce) I decided to give the Christians another try because, like many of us, I just couldn't rectify the un-reality of 9/11 and its aftermath. Started going to church and feeling a little better...my soul was starting to return. BUT I still had a hard time with all the "distractions" (who cares about who is on the Supreme Court or the evil gays) of American Christianity...so the "improvement was limited" and I pretty much reverted to Atheism.

Then I got on Y!A and started trying to "convert" people to my ex-religion Atheism. But I kept reading these Q & A's from the Muslims and they just didn't present the picture I was indoctrinated into by the Christians. So I started reading the Qu'ran on-line and asking questions of the Muslims...I eventually baought a Qu'ran and started "trying out" Islam. BINGO....this is the TRUTH that I knew when I was 5 years old. You know how Jesus said "one must approach God as a like a child"...well Islam teaches adults how to get back to that place they were in when they were a child...you know when you (or at least I) used to actually talk to Him...before all my "education" took control.

Now Islam is not a "simplistic" religion (or the Qu'ran would be like 5 pages long) but it is the best pair of glasses to see the true nature of the world we live in...the one that is about to go completely haywire. Islam also teaches you how to "fit" God's truth.

Answer 2

I changed to fit into my belief system.

It's kinda like when you have a teacher that wants the work you turn in to be presented in a certain way: no food stuck on it, proper heading, stay within the margins, etc. If you refuse to listen to the teacher, you get a bad grade and fail the class. If a teacher has the right to run their classroom the way they want to, why should God be any different?

It's the same with my belief system. Rather than allow myself to continue in God-dishonoring practices I've resolved to "put on the new personality" and live my life in a way that God approves. (Eph 4:20-24; Col 3:5-10)

With that said, I carefully studied the Scriptures for years and decided to become a baptized Jehovah's witness. It's the best decision that I've ever made in my life. Plus, it kinda already fit into my life.

Answer 3

I believed in the Lord & he has done the rest for me. It was written out for me I just had to have faith & trust in it. I didn't have to change, however once I got closer to the Lord I decided that some change would be best for my life & me. So I can say I didn't choose belief system it choose me!

How did you choose yours?

Answer 4

I studied many religions, beliefs and faiths with both a logical and open-minded eye. I chose to follow what I found to be the very closest to the truth. Many of those religions, I ruled out, after I learnt of their "corruption".

The faith that I now follow is one that fits me, but also one that I am changing myself for the better to fit.

I also learnt the bottom line with paticular religions are that fear and faith do not go hand in hand.

Answer 5

I walked into a catholic mass one day, and just knew that it was the one for me.

I didn't have to change to fit the belief system. I already believed everything. Everything just clicked.

Answer 6

The Lord led me to His church. After many years searching for a church where I could feel the presence of the Lord and where the truth of His word was being preached, I had just about given up hope of ever finding a church that fit with my beliefs. I prayed and asked the Lord to show me some kind of sign or to lead me to where He wanted me, and He did. He led me straight to the church that he Himself established. The Holy Roman Catholic Church. A from the first time I walked thru the doors I could feel the very presence of the Lord. He led me home to where i needed to be, and that Iam very grateful and thankful for. God Bless

Answer 7

I choose my system of knowledge because I can prove it with experience and own it into wisdom. Philosophy is useless without a way to experience it. My "system" requires me to stay conscious, instead of just sleepwalking through life. Sleepwalking will make your future just more of your past.

Answer 8

I grew up in an agnostic kin, and proceed to be that way. even however my mom's father and mom are commit Irish Catholics, she wasn't a fan (she calls herself a recovering Catholic - likening the religion to alcoholism). i think of it relies upon on the community quite than in basic terms the kinfolk. i think of if a baby grows up with strict non secular father and mom in a diverse community, they're extra probable to locate and in all risk adhere to different ideals. a baby from a non secular kinfolk residing in an area ruled with the help of that faith is way less probable. it extremely is subsequently that i choose to propose greater coaching. It provides little ones an risk to fulfill those with diverse concepts and suggestions. in the event that they ascertain to alter their perception device as a result, so be it. in the event that they save their faith, their faith would be better, by way of fact their faith became a call, and not a default.

Answer 9

Both. It fit me spiritually, and some aspects of my life changed once I learned more about my chosen religion.

Answer 10

I stumbled across it---before that I had no idea anyone *seriously* followed the old Folkways---and immediately recognized my core values within it.

Rather than "changing to fit" I'd say heathenry simply brings out the best in me.