Why do you believe they way you believe?

Question

Is it how you were raised to believe that way, or did you do research on your belief?

This question is for any one who wishes to answer :)

to PK_NICCA, i was board, and asked a question, it cost me five points, and you get two points just for saying my question was dumb...no problem, its just an opinion, ever one has one :)

Answer 1

Both.
I was raised to be a Seventh-Day Adventist Christian. I also know in the Bible that Christianity is the truth for the world today.

Answer 2

I was raised as a latter day saint (Mormon) and as a teen, went through a rebellion. It wasn't so much that I didn't know whether or not it was true, it was more that I really didn't care. After I snapped out of teenage rebellion, I did some studying and decided I did care, and I did believe my religion. I went though another mini-belief crisis/rebellion in my early-mid twenties. It wasn't more of a rebellion, just a questioning. I ended up studying a lot of religions and asking myself some really difficult questions. In the end I came to the same conclusion I did as a teen. I believe in my religion. The nice thing is, when the anti's come out....there isn't anything they can ask that I haven't already asked myself.

Answer 3

Raised to believe pretty much how I do now but then when i was older researched my beliefs by the Bible and learned some things that weren't backed up by the Bible and things I didn't know about that were etc. All and all it was basically close to how I was raised though but if I see anything not backed up by God's Word I trash that belief.

Answer 4

I was raised in one religion but became a member of another. It was all about research. I used several Bibles and compared their translations to the ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Scriptures. One word translated wrong can give an entirely new meaning, so it is a huge responsibility to translate a Bible. I also looked up historical and scientific facts in books or on the net and compared them with what the Bible said. I found some amazing things out. Keep in mind that you shouldn't be looking to find things that tickle your ears, but that you are looking for the TRUTH. Faith isn't based on emotion, but on reasonableness and rationality. Afterall, whoever designed our earth and universe was apparently organized and rational. Hope you do well in your search.

Answer 5

Up until I was 14 I was raised as a Christian.
I am now a strong agnostic.
I believe that because I can neither prove nor disprove the existence of spiritual beings I can't believe in them. I know that that's what faith is but how can I have that when there is proof of evolution.
I firmly believe in co-existence and wish that America wasn't so affected by Christianity in the law making.

Answer 6

I was raised to believe a certain way, but when I grew up and had some experience with how life REALLY works, I found those beliefs to be unsatisfactory and unfulfilling.

I am now in the process of figuring out what *I* believe through study and contemplation.

Answer 7

Well sir, I was raised Catholic. One day I thought about God's all forgiving nature and I came to the realization that Catholic guilt sucks. Later, after researching other religions, I came to the conclusion that God doesn't exist. At least in the way He is portrayed in organized religion. The turning point came when I saw this argument on the desk of a philosophy class.

God is good.
God is all powerful.
Evil exists.
God exists.

Answer 8

I was brought up as a Church of England Protestant. I attended church regularly, was in the choir and also a Sunday School Teacher.

However, as time went by I dropped out of church and just went along on my own sweet way.

After the death of my grandmother, whom I loved very much, I began to wonder about God.

I had a Bible Study and found it answered my questions and now I have abeen a dedicated witness since 1984.

John 8 v 32, "And you will know the truth and the truth will set you free".
John 17 v 3, "this means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you and the one you sent forth, Jesus Christ."

Answer 9

Believe..... I honestly don't know what to believe anymore. The older I grow the more I learn. Some of those things I've learned contradict the things I was taught as a child. Today, I really stand at a cross road. Who should I believe? What should I believe? Why do I have to believe in anything?

Answer 10

What I believe in now is definitely not what I believed in as a child. I was raised a Christian and was sent to Christian schools, but now I don't believe in it. It just makes more sense in Evolution than having a god who is up in heaven. I would like to think that there is a heaven, and if it is true, I would love to be there. I don't want to believe in something that nobody has any hard facts about it.