How do you know?

Question

How do you know what is the truth for all when it comes to religion? How do you know what happened back when your holy books wer written? It all happend so long ago and alot of documentation has been lost of mistranslated that how can you know for sure what happend and what didn't? Saying that how can you know if things happed (ie things Jesus did) that weren't documented. Just because it wasn't documented doesn't mean there is no possibility that it happened.

Answer 1

It doesn't matter what the documents say. Anyone who believes in something has their own personal, mental image of those beliefs. It's not about a piece of paper, it's about a message, one message, and it's never changed, doesn't matter which religion you belong to.

Answer 2

When you listen to man's opinions, ideas and theories, you have to remember that they are apt to change with time, culture, more evidence, etc.... whereas God's Word Never changes! If you read God's Word that was inspired and kept Holy by the God who is Our Creator and Master over all, you will see all the prophecies that have come true and are still unfolding before our eyes. All that lost translation stories is another one of satan's tools to put doubt in our minds against Our Lord. God has and will continue to preserve His Holy Word and will not let mere man taint His Truth!! If you have a relationship with Jesus, have the Holy Spirit indwelling you and experience the joy and peace that God gives, you won't live in doubt, confusion and the What if's will be gone. I know because I have Faith in Jesus who IS The Way, The Truth and The Life! God bless

Answer 3

Pearl Wagoner-- What you see as blue is every color that makes up white except blue. The eye works on the subtractive color principle. A European didn't "discover" America. There were real live human beings no different from you or me living here at least 50,000 years before CC was even born. If someone walked into your living room, planted a flag and said "I CLAIM THIS LAND IN THE NAME OF SPAIN" it would be the same thing. Is your faith as true as your other statements?


HERE FOLLOWS SOME PSYCHO-METAPHYSICS. If you are not hot for philosophy, best just skip it. The Aneristic Principle is that of APPARENT ORDER; the Eristic Principle is that of APPARENT DISORDER. Both order and disorder are man made concepts and are artificial divisions of PURE CHAOS, which is a level deeper that is the level of distinction making. With our concept making apparatus called "mind" we look at reality through the ideas-about-reality which our cultures give us. The ideas-about-reality are mistakenly labeled "reality" and unenlightened people are forever perplexed by the fact that other people, especially other cultures, see "reality" differently. It is only the ideas-about-reality which differ. Real (capital-T True) reality is a level deeper that is the level of concept. We look at the world through windows on which have been drawn grids (concepts). Different philosophies use different grids. A culture is a group of people with rather similar grids. Through a window we view chaos, and relate it to the points on our grid, and thereby understand it. The ORDER is in the GRID. That is the Aneristic Principle. Western philosophy is traditionally concerned with contrasting one grid with another grid, and amending grids in hopes of finding a perfect one that will account for all reality and will, hence, (say unenlightened westerners) be True. This is illusory; it is what we Erisians call the ANERISTIC ILLUSION. Some grids can be more useful than others, some more beautiful than others, some more pleasant than others, etc., but none can be more True than any other. DISORDER is simply unrelated information viewed through some particular grid. But, like "relation", no-relation is a concept. Male, like female, is an idea about sex. To say that male-ness is "absence of female-ness", or vice versa, is a matter of definition and metaphysically arbitrary. The artificial concept of no-relation is the ERISTIC PRINCIPLE. The belief that "order is true" and disorder is false or somehow wrong, is the Aneristic Illusion. To say the same of disorder, is the ERISTIC ILLUSION. The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered. Reality is the original Rorschach. Verily! So much for all that.

Answer 4

well, what makes religion so cool in a way is that you're willing to trust blindly on sumthing no one on this earth is capable of proving to be correct. ur right w/ the bible, which is why i dont put much faith on it...you just cant trust anything man has touched or created, period. when it comes to religion, ive discovered, that it is best to establish a relationship w/ god and communicate directly w/him. there is no religion out there that is completely sure of what happened or what god wants for all of us...all they do is SPECULATE. the bible was written by man many years ago....which makes it an unreliable source...plus like u mentioned the many years and mistranslations.

ive established a relationship w/ god and communicate just fine w/ him. i dont need others from different religions to tell me what He wants from me, what he thinks is right and wrong...He tells me himself.

just remember when it comes to religion...the key factor is FAITH.

Answer 5

How do people live while being so overly-logical like this? :)

The answer to your question is "I don't know". However, it's actually something to be proud of (in my humble opinion of course). I know the truth when it comes to religion by my instinct in the first place. We always say "Follow your instinct". If one's gut feeling is telling them that they're on the right path, why do they have to "know"? That doesn't suggest believers do not use their minds; we do! But I personally don't treat religion like a scientific subject. Just follow your gut feeling, that's it.

Answer 6

There is a big difference between religion and history. Religions maintain "historical" events only because they contain valuable psychological, philosophical or spiritual principles - never because they are simply accurate history. If your criteria for the accuracy of religion is whether or not an event actually took place, then you are evaluating history, not religion. The validity of religion is based on what the event means, not whether it actually took place.

Answer 7

All you need to know is written in the Holy Bible. Read it for yourself. It is God's handbook for life.

Answer 8

My life experiences tell me, and my relationship with Jesus confirms it.

Answer 9

I know because the writing of the Bible was inspired by God, and everything He wanted in the Bible is there, the way He wanted it.

Answer 10

Well thats the thing you dont...but Religion is all about belief....you read and make your own interpretations.....