Once you earnestly question your beliefs, is that the point of no return?

Question

Or is the point of no return only reached when/if the questions lead to doubt?
Can you ever return 100% to your beliefs once you have doubted?

Answer 1

Faith with out doubt it nothing but fear.
I doubt faith all the time. It makes me ask questions. Hence I seek answers. I have a very strong faith. :) Now asking questions might lead to you to a DIFFERENT faith, but that's not always bad either.

Answer 2

You can always come back. Questioning your beliefs, whatever they may be, is usually a sign of wanting to understand more, learn more, and be a better whatever-it-is you are. If you doubt and leave the belief system, I don't know of any that won't take you right back in. (With the possible exception of wacked out David Koresh type cults, and maybe, just maybe, JW or Mormons -- no offense intended, I'm really not sure about the last two).

Answer 3

No, I've met people who had questions about their faith. Sometimes people accept that they won't receive answers to various questions, but remain faithful to their religion nonetheless. Others, like me, are not content with unanswered religious questions and thus continue pursuing them until full-fledged doubt sets in.
Even once the doubting starts, some people manage to remain within their chosen belief system. But often, once doubts are rooted in your mind, it is difficult to go back to your former beliefs. Sometimes doubts lead to a change of religious denomination or tenets, to searching for a new religion, or to abandoning religion altogether.
For myself, I'd say that serious doubting was the point of no return.

Answer 4

I almost agree with that statement. I ?'ed my Lutheran up bringing. Since then I have tried Wicca,Buddhist,Jehovah wittiness,Eckankar,Scientology,Shamanism,studied probably a dozen more religions and traditions around.Still have not found anything I can claim to believe in 100%
I know that anyone of these could and would enrich your life if you believed in them 100% problem is I believe in something else I found a common demoniator in all of these.
here is my delema I can not tell anyone what it is I believe I have found in the past when I commited to anything and someone asked me what I believed as soon I I told them as the words came out my mouth dought came in. And of course they asked ?'s witch cause that crack of dought to rip open then I'm off in search of a knew beleif. This Time I'm not telling anyone....

Answer 5

Everyone should question their beliefs once in a while...it's a sign of intelligence and rationality. Look at it this way...if your beliefs can't stand up to a little scrutiny, then they weren't very good beliefs to begin with, were they?

Answer 6

It is not the point of no return. It can be the beginning of finding what you once knew and knowing it better than you thought possible. Seek and ye shall find!

Answer 7

My mind does not work like a computer. Its much more complicated which gives me the right to change my mind. Points of no return are for robots, oops, we should not have told the Rover to go down that steep embankment.
If we are in agreement then you are free to change your mind at any time.

Answer 8

Without questions how do you know what to believe and what not to believe. It is only with those sincere questions being answered can you then really say you have a belief.

Answer 9

Path-independent belief structures are the best way to go - they lead to freedom of beliefs.

That said, we tend to NOT be built that way. Evolutionarily, we have an incentive to stick to our guns, whether they're right or wrong.

Answer 10

I think God gave us brains to use them.. if you're not totally satisfied with something you should question it... the only thing you want to be sure of is that you take your own decisions and you do your own research and not let others push you or take decisions in your place... and God is the one who will guide you to the right path... insha-Allah!