You feel, from the bottom of your heart that you have the truth.
Do you acknowledge that other's may have just as strong of a conviction in their beliefs...eventhough, they may differ from yours.
How do you rationalize such thought? If you feel your way is the only way....yet, you realize that other's feel the same about their beliefs.
Can you answer this question without scripture....for you may believe it to be 100% truth...but, someone else may believe their, "holy book" to be 100% truth.
How do you rationalize such thought?
2007-09-28 07:23:24 · 18 answers · asked by G.C. 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Of course everyone believes that what they believe is 100% truth why would they believe it otherwise. I am a born again christian and I belieive in Jesus Christ and The Bible with all my heart. We have the freedom to believe whatever we want to I guess no one will know for sure until they die or the end of time.
2007-09-28 07:27:35 · answer #1 · answered by peeps 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses and I know it to be the truth as it's in my heart. I was not raised as a Witness so I know what the rest of Christendom teaches. The Bible is God's Word and I live my life according to it, not what man has taught me before I became a Witness. It is a part of me and a weight was lifted off of me when I learned what God's plan is for mankind.
Man tries to make God a mystery, He's not, it's so simple and man can mess up a one care funeral. Jehovah isn't that way at all.
2007-09-28 16:26:08 · answer #2 · answered by Suzy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I sure do.
How do I rationalize it?
I wonder, is it easy to rationalize such things?
Part of the reason I am convinced beyond a shadow of doubt that I have found reality, is that it has SO changed my life.
When I meet someone who feels like that about their religion or belief, I like to take time to discuss it with them and find out WHY they feel that way.
The interesting thing, is that I rarely do and most often others aren't even willing to answer my questions about what they believe and why. Now I wonder why?
2007-09-28 14:30:34 · answer #3 · answered by Lisa 3 · 5⤊ 2⤋
I once asked my very Fundamentalist family a very similar question. I also believe that people of other religions believe their way to be the truth and are just as faithfull and devoted to their own religions. I said, "If you think they're wrong, than how can they find such peace in their God(s, Goddess, etc)? How can they be happy (which many are) if they're wrong?" My parents then told me that Satan came make people feel at peace and feed them lies to make them happy but its all coming from Satan so their peace and happiness is a lie.
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I thought that was a very strange and unsatisfactory answer. Satan can make people happy....? So, yeah, I don't get it.
*Einstein-- Hmm, maybe I didn't make myself clear. But yes, I do believe that people can find "happiness" is harming themselves or others. What I meant as "happiness" (and I guess I was using the term too loosely) was fulfillment-- feeling whole-- at peace-- at one with their god-- satisfied-- having a sense of peace beyond all understanding. That sort of "happiness"-- the sort that my parents would have me believe only comes from "our" God.
2007-09-28 14:32:51 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
what do you mean, how do we rationalize it? Of course there are others that believe strongly about their book and their religion.....so what....that doesnt mean that its right....I can sit here and believe with all my heart that I can fly and then jump out a window and splat on the ground....your question is full of holes. Sure, others believe they are right, they same way that we do....its just funny that 1) the Koran (Qu'ran) came about a few hundred years after the Bible, and was written by a few people that "heard" a child molester talk (Muhammad), except you basically repeated the BIBLE exactly, just changing a couple names and made himself as Jesus.....this was predicted and described in the Old Testament...We are the only ones that have a book that can truly be called Canon....we have historical sites that can be found and records of nonbelievers claiming to see Jesus and his believers do things that are recorded in the Bible...(Romans/Greeks/Chinese scholars)....whereas no other religion does....that good enough for you?
EDIT: FERESHTE.....of course Satan can make people happy....There is pleasure in sin for a seaon....remember that? You can be happy and be an unbeliever....u can be happy and curse God if you wanted to...I wouldnt advise it...but you could...thats not the point..
2007-09-28 14:29:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
I have absolutely no doubt that people of other religions are as devout in their beliefs as I am. I saw evidence of this in China and Japan where I visited Buddhist temples...
and one only has to read some of the answers here on YA to see that Muslims and Mormons are extremely devout in their beliefs. No one is questioning the level of their devoutness.
I can answer without quoting scripture directly. I respect their devoutness -- I just happen to believe that they are following a path that ultimately leads to their eternal destruction, and I am worried out of love for them -- the worries being based upon my own beliefs, of course.
Maybe not a "rationalization" per se, but there it is - so I pray for them, and THAT in no way imposes upon their good will nor their ability to freely and devoutly practice their own faith.
2007-09-28 14:35:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
When the individual subjective experience of my religion is unrefutably duplicated, a million times over....bringing about the same changes, transformations and improvements in people across EVERY possible cross section of society irrespective of class, background, socioeconomic status and race...(not just everyone in a particular nation) ON TOP of having both eye witnesses, multiple authors over hundreds of years prophecying the same thing, and the only Deliverer who actually CALLED Himself God.... and evidences His omnipotence by allowing others to decry Him a phony and not SMITE them either directly or through directive to His followers....
thats sufficient rationalization for me.
2007-09-28 14:42:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The problem is that while other religions also promote homophobia, in the US, those religions don't enact harmful laws which deny gay people the right to marry the person they love and protect their families; prevent gay people from adopting, serving in the military, putting our partners on our health insurance plans, or visiting our dying partners in the hospital.
Therefore, while anti-gay Fundamentalists believe only they are right, the reality is that they refuse to admit that their beliefs lead to harm, ridicule, attacks and even murder of gay people. This is not "love" or "truth," this is immorality.
2007-09-28 15:35:45 · answer #8 · answered by Michael B - Prop. 8 Repealed! 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
What need is there to rationalize such thoughts? That makes no sense to me. If others have a faith that leads them astray, am I really suppose to be surprised? The Bible says such things will be so; therefore, there is not need to rationalized why others are deceived.
2007-09-28 14:28:16 · answer #9 · answered by L.C. 6 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Truth must be absolute, it can not be relative. For example,2+2 is equal to 4., and it is true always everywhere and for everyone.
Everyone believes that God is one. Suppose this is true why different belief systems exists? Christians only claim that Jesus Christ is God
2007-09-28 14:50:01 · answer #10 · answered by jaya k 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋