How would you feel? Just imagine it. If you cannot, do you realize you cannot out of fear? I don't care if you believe you are wrong or not, thats for your ego to hold on to. I care if you can even do it and feel "being wrong" and what it would be like.
If you cannot, if you cannot except being wrong, you live in fear and how will you ever not fear death if you cannot even fear being wrong?
So, how would you feel?
2007-09-17 15:27:16 · 19 answers · asked by Corvus 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
what if my religion isn't wrong? should be the question. Everyone puts so much effort into trying to disprove the bible and the life of Jesus Christ..The Roman centruion who was in charge of 100 soldiers who was there sure believed who Jesus Christ was and is.....the Jewish Historian Josephus knew who Jesus was, The dead sea scrolls even give more proof...Yet people decide to ignore it and put all their energy into disproving it when they could be enjoying a life in Christ instead....
2007-09-17 15:43:19 · answer #1 · answered by bmdt07 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Then I'm wrong, but I still helped my commuinity and family as much as I could. I was as good an example of my morals to my son as I could be. I was still honest, and responsible.
Being wrong hasn't stopped me from being me these 48 years, another 48 won't stop me either.
Death holds no fear, except not being able to see my son, and family. I've been ready mentally for a long time.
2007-09-17 22:42:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
That's quite a jumble of words. Once I figured out that you meant "accept" instead of "except," it made a little more sense.
The tone of your question, from what I can decipher, seems to suggest that you assume I've never had these thoughts of disbelief, never had to wrestle with it, and never came to terms with it. I have. Years ago. I succeeded and now I know what my faith is.
I have felt it, that questioning of your basic belief structure. It is not a good feeling, but every true Christian goes through it. It has been called "the dark night of the soul" by St. John of the Cross and St. Theresa of Avila.
Somebody once said that the most basic prayer a person can utter is the centurian's to Jesus: Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief.
2007-09-17 22:32:11 · answer #3 · answered by Acorn 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
If my religion were wrong (I'm an Episcopalian), then I would attempt to find out in that case what was right and adhere to that. I do not fear being wrong. I fear being ignorant and intellectually inflexible far worse than that.
2007-09-17 22:35:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, you'd have to define "wrong." It's my ancestral folkway . . . the cultural thews, beliefs, worldview, and practices of my ethnocultural pre-xian heritage.
As a reconstructive praxis, it is subject to *constant* study, examination, revision, and evolution. Many things I started with are "wrong" for me now, because I have better information and more understanding.
We're ancestor worshippers, we heathens. You could dig up Freyr's bones and it wouldn't change a thing.
2007-09-17 22:51:57 · answer #5 · answered by Boar's Heart 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess I would feel kind of silly for believing in something that was incorrect.
Then I would go about doing some serious soul searching though I have already done it in some hypothetical sense.
In all likelihood I would go though a significant lifestyle change.
2007-09-17 22:33:26 · answer #6 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
FOR WHAT IS TRUE AND TALK IN ONE WAY, NOT TAKE BACK WORDS.
OUR SCIENCE CAN APPROVE A LOT, INLUDING THE PREACHING HOW TO BE A GOOD HUMAN, GOOD SPIRIT, NO NEED WITH god.
BUT RELIGIONS JUST MAKE THEMSELVES WRONG ABOUT EARTH EXISTED, EVOLUTION ABOUT HUMAN ORIGIN AS SCIENCE SEEK OUT, ALTHOUGH THEY USE SCIENCE OUTCOME & CLAIM IT AS GIFT FROM god????
THEY AT LAST SHOW UP THEIR DOUBLE-FACE IN LIFES. JUST ONLY BUDHISM I CAN SEE ABOUT EXPLANATION RIGHT ABOUT OUR WORLD ALTHOUGH IT IS VERY UNCLEAR & SCIENTIFIC AT ALL.
BELIEVE THAT MOST OF US DONT FEEL ALRIGHT IF WE DO SOMETHING WRONG, AGAINST MORAL, HUMANITY, EVEN WE FOLLOW ANY KIND OF RELIGION, BECAUSE WE OF US KNOW THAT
WE MUST LIVE GOOD & WELL TO SAVE OUR OWN EGO, NO WONDER, NO WORRY ABOUT god or punishment, IF WE LIVE A GOOD LIFE.
muslim & christ MAKE YOURSELVES TO GIVE AN EXCUSE TO ALL OF YOUR SINS COMMITMENT, THIS IS REALLY DANGEROUS & MAKE YOU AWAY FROM THIS LIFES, CREATE YOU A DOUBLE-FACE IN DEALING WITH YOUR OWN LIFES. IT'S TOO DANGEROUS!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-09-17 22:45:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
if if if
There must be an absolute truth. What guideline can man live by without this? Everyone would have their own opinion and rules.
If you fear absolute truth, there needs an attitude adjustment.
2007-09-17 22:34:17 · answer #8 · answered by n9wff 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I did discover my religion was wrong. And there was no fear involved.
But discovering I was wrong, was VERY disconcerting.
I got over it, and made very sure I was right the next time.
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2007-09-17 22:34:51 · answer #9 · answered by Hogie 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
realizing all are right/ all are wrong I abandoned the point of division among my neighbors
now atheist and dont' care who 'wins'
2007-09-17 22:32:34 · answer #10 · answered by voice_of_reason 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋