Should we allow our beliefs to evolve?

Question

Do you allow your beliefs to evolve, or do you adamantly believe what you want to believe, regardless of new evidence or knowledge you encounter?

Answer 1

Yes.... they should evolve. There is no reason to believe something which has been reasonably proven to be false. Moreover....

I have always said... no human being can help how they feel. And no one should ever apologize or make excuses for how they feel (regardless of whether those feelings are based upon untrue input). But it is very important that feelings actively change through ones life... else we become stagnant and set in our ways.

Answer 2

i believe that having beliefs of life and existence is a life challenge. as you go through life, you experience many things and you interpret them the way you choose, and what you learn from these experiences causes you to live a certain way, and living a certain way is all about what beliefs are and what they stand for. i find it kind of silly that people just believe in religions just because they were raised around it. a real person discovers their beliefs on their own. so yes my beliefs do evolve with each passing day with the knowledge i encounter, and thats how it should be.

Answer 3

I agree that one's personal beliefs should evolve. I know what was told me to understand and to believe when I was a youth. But, as I matured, I saw the world through a different set of eyes that aged and understood life on a different playing ground. Same set of rules, but a different way of looking at the way that things are done......

It is not good to offend, but to learn from the things that cause that wall of separation between people for whatever reason, must be understood, or else, nothing changes.

Who can understand the big picture save that one who sees both sides of the story...... If the judge hears one perspective, how can he be a just judge?


Your sister,
Ginger

Answer 4

I don't know how one's beliefs could *not* evolve or at least change. That would indicate that s/he was never learning.

Anyone whose beliefs do not evolve are what I would consider "closed-minded." There's just too much constant change going on in the world for a person to not be affected by it.

Answer 5

Personally, I always allow my beliefs to evolve. I must admit it is hard sometimes but it seems to turn out for the better.

But as for everyone, I think it is like society. If a society does not evolve it dies. This is not a function of technology, scientific thought or any of the other things that we think of as modern evolving societies, but rather its intra-actions and interactions that allow a society to evolve. People within the society must have the room to move and grow. If this does not happen then the society stagnates and slowly dies.

The same applies for ideas and beliefs within ourselves. If we constrict our beliefs to one strict set, there is no room for movement and growth. We find that we stagnate and slowly die as our ridged rules, ideas and beliefs slowly strangle us the same as a collar will strangle and animal if not lessened as it grows. This will then lead to our emotional death, if not our physical death. We will be nothing more than automatons, going through the motions of our life until we stop.

Hope this helps.

Answer 6

Great question..... Star!!

Belief loses its original identity when it is allowed to evolve... that is why religious faith is not allowed to evolve. However, if it is not allowed to evolve, it can die and lose its identity altogether. In the normal course, our function of logic is all the time testing our beliefs in the light of fresh experience and this process makes evolution of belief a natural process to progress towards the goal of 'truth'... if this natural process is hindered, it can only create dogma and die-hard beliefs tend to throw us into the past and out of context.

Does it mean that religious faith where flexibility is deliberately prohibited, can make us into expired currency? Yes... in my view this is the reason why people keep their religious faith rather disconnected with their economic, social and political activities... and if and when one mixes religion with them, we have seen what kind of extremist activities result.

Answer 7

Our thoughts evolve with every new experience, whether it be smelling a rose or facing death in some faraway place. Every encounter we have adds to our individuality. thus, we have very little to say about allowing our beliefs to evolve.

Answer 8

I believe what I believe.
The phenomenon that occurs when people appear stubborn to new ideas occurs either because people genuinely believe that they're already right, or because they cannot admit that they are wrong to the other party. They do not make a conscious decision in their own thoughts to ignore the new idea, because that is impossible once you've heard it.

Answer 9

In my opion I think we shold allow our befiefs to evolve because they most likley get stronger with what you might hear. But on the other hand they could get weaker. But in the end it is always up to the person who belives in what they want to belive no matter what anyone else tells you.

Answer 10

i've got faith my Christian faith instructs me to advance, or evolve. we are being switched over into His image. We first choose the milk of the observe until eventually now we are able to deal with the beef of the observe. as quickly as we've been a new child we spoke as a new child, besides the indisputable fact that it's time to place away infantile issues. basically some exhortations to conform that spring to recommendations.