Do you believe? Do you really trust your own conclusions? Spiritually?

Question

What do you really believe is true for you and what is your relationship with Spirit?
Is your belief carved in stone?
Do you remain open to other ideas?

trinity: Very insightful. Thank You!

spacepirate: Oh Yes!

carole: Wow! I very much agree with you.

Meerkatz: Yes, that is true for me also.

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Answer 1

Conclusions implies a logical train of events. Even the best human reasoning is not often even logical. We are flawed beings.

Beliefs tend to be unsupported concepts held as true. But this is not always the case. Many would claim that their beliefs are supported.

Spirituality seems to come from two sources. One is events perceived (with or without physical senses). This one is limited to people who have had these experiences and an awareness of how they connect.

The other source is Divine or Universal. All humans are capable of this, but some make the conscious choice to ignore this.

When beliefs are carved in stone, it is probably a head-stone. Personal growth often stops. Living beings that do not grow are either dying or dead, even if they believe that they are alive and well.

To remain open to other (new) ideas is to grow. This is often necessary for physical growth as well as mental, emotional and spiritual growth. Each path is different. Every human is unique.

Answer 2

I do believe in God, and unless some one can show me, beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am wrong, then I do trust my own conclusions. Because they are not just my conclusions, but they come from God and the Bible. I listen to other peoples ideas, I really do, but I have not heard anything yet to make me change my mind. And my opinion and belief is that I never will. If you call that carved in stone, then so be it. That is what is true to me, but it may not be true for you.

Answer 3

I used to have a "this is it!" attitude, as if I had found the ultimate answer I had been seeking. It is not like that anymore. I am not so sure that focusing on beliefs is important to me. I learn something and I apply it. That is not the same as believing. It is in my experience that I grow spiritually. All religions have helped me to do this, as have total strangers, puppies, children, wildflowers, the sky, the moon. The point is, nothing is left out. It is all a fluid movement. Beliefs are solid and block the flow of truth through me.

Answer 4

My mind is so open my brains fall out; I've spent nearly all my life learning to filter things and learning when to just keep my mouth shut. Still learning...when someone says a belief is carved in stone, that's when the mind has shut and thinking has ceased. It is all preprogrammed then. I have to think everything out from the beginning; it takes forever, but it makes more sense to me. If you believe, it is wise to understand why you believe, down to the individual particles and concepts, or else you are more easily deceived.

Answer 5

I believe in God of the bible, who has reveled Himself completely through Jesus Christ. If you have faith, in this God through Jesus Christ, you can be saved. I trust my conclusions because I have had and continue to have a close and personal relationship with my Savior. I have experience that line up with the biblical experience mentioned throughout the bible. My life has changed completely and totally for the better after this experience of receiving the Spirit of God. It was exactly as if I came out of a pitch dark cave into bright light. You may say that I'm exaggerating, but I would testify under the penalty of death that what I'm saying is the absolute Truth.

Answer 6

There are doctrines that I consider fundamental without which I am no longer a true Christian. For example, faith in Jesus Christ - the Word who created everything with the Father. This same Word who becasme flesh and lived among us- not only to reveal the glory of God but also to pay the penalty of sin and make us righteous before God. I believe that salvation is by the grace of God through faith in Christ, and that my life is no longer my own but God's. I believe that the Holy Spirit indwelled me and made me a temple - preparing me for the coming eternity. All these are fundamentals - and they are non-negotiable. All other ideas are open for discussion and possibly for assimilation.

Answer 7

Absolutely. Myself is the only tool I have for experiencing ... and what a great tool it is. And this experiencing and drawing of conclusions is an evolutionary process, a great movement of dao, nothing is carved in stone. But everything has to be lived through my own point of reference and integrated there, because otherwise it's just words in some stranger's mouth (or book). Spiritual truth is a fluid but individual thing.

Answer 8

It took me years to come to terms with a spiritual path that is actually mine and right for me...do i believe? Definately!
Spiritually i believe that we all have life lessons to learn and that our souls are meant to experience absolutely everything...
I think that we all must seek out our own spiritual path and as long as we are seeking, we are progressing spiritually....i do remain open to all beliefs and others ideas, but search for strands of truth in all beliefs...
As for when we die, i believe that after a physical death, our souls return to summerlands, a place where we rest and reflect on the lifetime and lessons we have learned, visit with our friends that we share soul ties with and then decide on what lesson we will move on to next, pick our parents and then off we go again...! And thus the cycle continues until we experience all we are meant to spiritually and have learned all of the spiritual lessons ...then and only then will we be able to finally evolve and become part of the ultimate power of the divine!

Blessings to you and yours!

i hope that you find what it is you seek.....

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Answer 9

I will be open to and consider anything that isn't forced down my throat with the only evidence being a book written by a bunch of different people who contradict eachother and could have just made up any old story.

I believe there's something out there, some form of energy that causes the certain things to happen, like the Big Bang, or other difficult-to-explain events in history that must have been caused by some force of nature. But I am certainly not a christain and I am proud to say it.

Answer 10

My belief leaves room for growth, because I know there is no way to truly KNOW the Unknowable and my faith is a conglomerate of things that I have learned, witnessed, prefer, etc.

Having said that, I do trust my own conclusions implicitly. I have gone over the various scenarios and mine is the only one that completely makes sense to me. I see the evidence of my faith all around me and I see my life richer for it.

My personal belief is that the creative force in the Universe (that which is so often referred to as God) is just that - a creative force, energy. I believe it facilitate our adventures here - adventures we undertake to learn things (mostly about relationships). I believe if God is an ocean, then we are all individual glasses of God. I believe that we have access to and direct that energy with our thoughts and emotions - that which we dwell upon in our hearts and in our minds is what we manifest in our lives. I believe that when we die, we go home - to another plane of existence (energy, most likely - return to our native state, as it were) that is so different that it is unfathomable from this vantage point, yet as lovely as coming home to people who love you.

What's more, I think that the organized religions all have a very similar message. I can see my faith in most of them - the difference is that most organizations put the faithful in a subservient position so they continue to need paid help. In my faith, I have a personal relationship with the Divine and I accept my role in it. It's liberating and uplifting and helps me in times of trouble. What else could I ask for in a faith?

Peace!