Can God truly help us to find ourself?

Question

Religion tries to answer the mystery of life with introducing external figure like, God, Jesus, and Alha. We all seek to know who we are and what our purpose is? Can these beings answer our question?

My believe is that if we seek to understand our self we must look within. Through insight meditation and deep contemplation. The mystery of life is within us all we have to do is look.

Answer 1

I am not lost.

Answer 2

This is how I know it. God has given all of a life to celebrate in this world. From the beginning he has given mankind the freedom to be independent. A lot of people ask this, if God know what i will become when I grow up, why do I need to plan? It is a very logical question, but the answer is that God has given us this life to live according to the will of God. All he expects us to do is to stay with him and pray to him, he will lead our way to success. In this world success without God is nothing because he knows everything that we do and when he thinks that you are moving in the wrong direction, he is there to guide us through our parents, friends, teachers. SO God will definetly help u find yourself, but u need to show the motivation to help urself and to work with God. It is kinda like this- 50 % of every task is ur responsibility and God will do the other 50 % if u ask him. God will help u to help urself. Go always have a plan for eveyone, the one who listens to these plans are the ones who share eternal life with him. SO listen to God and ask him, what his plans for u r. He will defenitly answer because he loves u more than u think.

Answer 3

well..here's how i see it in a nutshell:

whether u believe in God or not is not necessarily, in my opinion, the "point". and i don't mean this in the sense that God is not important.. of course not. i am a christian myself. *however*..as a HUMAN BEING, i also understand that you can't just be Told there's a God out there, Read his bible and believe everything he says, even if it does'nt make sense to you!!!

nope...i think that's the whole problem of religion. i really think the point of all of the different religions and differences within people, and culture, and thinking, male and female.... all of these things are here for a reason and purpose, and it's up to US to figure out what it Means to ourselves---> "finding ourselves by looking within".

for me, this meant drifting away from religion that i'd been raised in (christianity), and coming back full circle just by being CURIOUS at what i had been taught in my past. i wanted to Learn it. Understand it. Study it...not necessarily cuz it was "the truth", but because i found it Interesting..

then i realized, hey. this actually makes sense to me. there is a reason why there is Good in this world.. there is a reason why religion can be good for this world. so i delved deeper into it, but this time using my Mind and Heart to apply it to my own life.

and i realized..that seeking what is Good, Right, Positive, Healthy and Helpful in this world (whether thru religion or not) is one of the MOST important and wonderful ways to live our lives. that search to be a good person, and be able to be good to others, while searching what is Right and Wrong. that quest, in my mind, is a quest for Religion...someway, somehow. whether it leads u to Buddhism, Christianity, Catholicism.... it doesn't *really* matter.

personally i believe that if each person just read all about each religion and really studied it to the point of understanding the concepts and reasons why, i feel it would lead them to christianity. but even if it Didn't, i believe they would have respect for what Jesus was trying to say....

well good luck to us all :)

Answer 4

I suppose the real question is: "Is God, or the Divine Source, within or without?" In Pagan tradition we believe both is true. Everyone has a spark of the Divine within themselves, and we only need to look within to find what we need. We are connected with the Divine, as well as with every other being, and therefore the Divine isn't necessarily a separate being, but a force that works within and around us.

Answer 5

When it comes down to finding your innerself, every bit of it helps, even religion. I agree that understanding the self is probably the most important, yet religion does not necessarily mean external. God, Jesus, and Allah when taken literally can be external, but can also be internal as well.

Answer 6

Life on earth is a test – a preparation for what is to come. For believers, this is eternal life in the immediate presence of God. So how are we made righteous and able to receive this eternal life? There is only one way – through faith and trust in God's Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die like everyone else, will live again. They are given eternal life for believing in me and will never perish...” (John 11:25-26).

Answer 7

Your question can't particularly be spoke back. The life of God can neither be proved nor disproved, much less his/her/its motives for appearing if life must be proved. If we turn to faith, the respond is predicated upon who's God and who's scripture you're referencing. no longer very gratifying. The Universe is vast previous our ability to even think of---billions of galaxies each crammed with an widespread of one thousand million stars. nicely, the probability of different liveable planets with sentient inhabitants is quite intense. And if all that replaced into created via a ideally suited Being, that God is so previous our comprehension as to make our memories laughable. i'm no longer asserting that i do no longer have confidence in God. I purely think of the very be conscious "God" has been so misused that it does not even propose the comparable situation to all of us---and it truly on no account did. For in spite of reason, we are right here. we've been given the adventure of being alive and conscious for in spite of volume of time we've. In living compassionately and generously with ourselves and all beings, animal and human, we are in a position to be attentive to exhilaration, love and doubtless glimpse particularly the unknowable alongside the way.

Answer 8

I am an agnostic. I used to be a christian. Before I was a christian I was athiest. My reason for athiesm was ignorance to the truth, my reason to move onto Christianity was looking for the truth and my reasons for now being Agnostic is finding the truth. The truth is, until we die, we cannot know the truth.
Without going through christianity I didn't realise this, and probably never would have. So wether God exists or not, he has helped me find myself.

Answer 9

You are right, up to a point.

It is from looking within, we discover our true identity. We are searchers, we are looking for something of meaning and truth and beauty.

We are like electrical cords looking for something to plug into. And the outlet is God. Nothing else makes sense; nothing else provides that same level of satisfaction.

Then we know God, then we know ourselves; now in part still with questions and doubts, but then we shall be fully known.

Answer 10

yes....I agree...and there is a spark of the Divine in all of us! That is what seperates us from the animals. But God/Goddess is not an "external figure"---God/Goddess is within all of us if we will only take the time to look. Blessings!

Answer 11

There is no mystery to life. Is there a mystery to the life of animals and/or plants? We are no different and no amount of religious make believe is going to change that.