What makes you believe what you believe? Do you think your right, or is there a possibility your wrong? Does it matter who's right and who's wrong? Tell me.
( I take no sides, only curious. )
2007-07-27 17:01:45 · 17 answers · asked by lilpeaches0315 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Everything I've learned and experienced becomes a part of my beliefs. I keep the possibility open that I can be wrong. I'm agnostic, so it's easier to accept I may be wrong. I honestly think it's silly for someone to pick a religion at a young age and follow it so devoutly forever without contemplating the possibility of being wrong. Look at how bad us humans are at simple things, yet we think we know the answers to such bigger questions and have the audacity to tell people they're wrong about their beliefs? Nonsense.
Does it matter? Since we won't know until that rapture thing or when we die, then I guess it shouldn't matter. If it can't be proven while we're here then why let it divide us from doing good for one another?
2007-07-27 17:21:43 · answer #1 · answered by Dethklok 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lot of questions.
I believe what I believe because I studied it out and thought it out and it makes sense. It's logical. And the parts that don't seem logical, I have learned by experience are true anyway.
Of course I think I'm right or I would believe something else, like what I believed was right!
There's always a possibility I could be wrong.
Sometimes it matters who is right and who is wrong. But it matters more WHAT is right and what is wrong.
For instance, you and I could have a lively dispute going about whether or not a train could hurt me. It doesn't matter which one of us believes it could and which one of us believes it couldn't. And usually a train can't hurt me: It can't come to my house and stab me in my sleep; it can't say mean things about me that aren't true; it can't steal my money or my ID.
But there is a time a train can and will hurt me. If I walk out in front of a moving train, it will hurt me. And even if I truly, truly believe the train won't hurt me, the train will run over me just the same.
2007-07-28 00:13:07 · answer #2 · answered by Einsteinetta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My heart helps me to believe what i believe. There is a strong feeling when you go to cfhurch and hear how God has worked in others lives. Then you see him work in your life. At times you know for a fact it cant be anyone but God. I dont think that i am wrong. Aristotle even said, " I dont know if there is a God or not, but it is in the best interest to live as if there was one." I feel Atheists are wrong and it does matter bcuz they are lost and do not know God. If only they would open their hearts and let God in.
2007-07-28 00:42:59 · answer #3 · answered by Eric G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe what I believe (that is to say, don't believe) because I've done research into it and asked a lot of questions before I concluded anything.
Of course I could be wrong. No one truly knows anything with 100% certainty. That's impossible.
And yes, it matters. It matters when people who think a certain way do everything they can to force others to live according to that belief instead of letting them live their lives how they choose.
2007-07-28 00:06:50 · answer #4 · answered by Eldritch 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The love that I have for my Father in the heavens makes me believe. Whether you believe I am right or wrong, it does not even matter; I will always believe in him.
2007-07-28 00:08:11 · answer #5 · answered by Aeon Enigma 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Evidence. Of course there's a chance I'm wrong. There's a high probability I'm wrong on theological issues, but at least everyone's working with the same lack of evidence.
2007-07-28 00:06:17 · answer #6 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe God loves us and desperately wants us home. I, as a father, haven't seen my children in many years due to an ugly divorce. I know what God feels when one of his children is lost to Him.
Why do I believe? Simply I took a leap of faith and have seen amazing and marvelous changes in my life because of God's love. I don't need anymore proof.
2007-07-28 00:07:04 · answer #7 · answered by Mike V 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For I am, that I am, for the Lord made me this way after succumbing in an accident having been declared DEAD, but brought back by God to do his will. There is but "one" righteous path THOUGH mankind creates many, "just" as there IS but one Father in heaven, THOUGH mankind creates many. What makes me BELIEVE ? The GRACE of the Father in heaven is what makes me believe NOT by FORCE but by my choice for all he has done for me. Had you "known" me "before" and how violent I used to BE, you would SEE for yourself his "miracles."
2007-07-28 00:15:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I only believe everything President Bush says
2007-07-28 00:05:24 · answer #9 · answered by Darth Alfalfa 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that it matters who's right and who's wrong....the people who are right go to Heaven, and the people who are wrong go to Hell.
I believe what I believe because the Bible says it's true.
Nope, there's no possibility that I'm wrong.
2007-07-28 00:06:53 · answer #10 · answered by coolshades 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋