Mistaken? If I'd believed in God initially,prior to knowing religion?

Question

As it happens to me,
which comes first,do you think? believing in God or just accepting a religion and learn about The Almighty later.
Any answer from the monolithic faiths only please.
thanks

When i was a kid,i used to ask who made the sky,sun etc to myself.but one day i asked my beloved grandpa(may God be merciful on him) answered me as- look those things in this room,the chair the table definitely done by some one(man),by the same token God has made the powerful bodies(earth,sky,sun...).I just asked anyone From a brothers either from Muslim or Christian side that can have similar experience.[All I mean -think about your creator-believe/trust-then follow a religion]?.

Answer 1

believing in GOD...

Answer 2

God showed life and knowledge giving truth from beyond the depth of my self idea before words, or religiosity were known in my personal experience. Though slightly later in life, as intellect formed, my mind was delivered from within the silence of itself and the forest in which i sat, names that were and are currently centerpieces in the monolithic (world founding) faiths, religiosity has always, except through the living truth of individuals, created paradox in my mind. For example after i had heard the name Christ in the quiet expanse of my forest bound experience (six years old), i began to be curious as to what the people in the christian churches were doing. I went with friends to church and this was very confusing -- the mood, the sensation in the nerves etc. Later by study of history i would hear more of christainity and this only was more confusing.
God however never gave anything but the undeniable, inescapable, and eternal.
Religion for me has been a study of how to enter the world of man, not an approach to God.

Answer 3

There are only two possibilities.

One, you cease to have an independent existence, and thus know God directly, religion is then subordinate. Now in order for this to be so, it must also have to been always so, and then is not so.

We are then left with, you will always have an individual identity, though it may become so self-effaced it's as though it weren't there at all, and only a perfect depiction of what God is to the rational individual experience remains visible.

Now how can one attain that perfect image of godliness in themselves? this requires two things, knowledge, and honesty. Knowledge is determined by circumstance, and honesty is determined by detachment. these are two sides of the same coin.

To become detached, one must leave all love and hate, all reactive emotion and prejudice behind, and question endlessly until knowledge of God's quality is attained, this in tun is dependent upon God being reality, and a faithful acceptance of what is taught, both inwardly through prayer, and self observation, and outwardly through observation and prayer for rational applicability of knowledge, and brought into practice.

All else is error. All truth agrees with knowledge and honesty as essential prerequisites for any individual knowing anything for certain.

God bless.

Answer 4

As I advance older i'm finding that my ideals are no longer constantly in music with the religions i became referred to with (my mom being Jewish and my father being catholic). often once you grow previous, you notice the important issues much less, and the trivial issues extra. You develop into extra closed off to new suggestions and techniques of interpretting issues. What I even have additionally observed, is that the religions i'm responsive to tend to inspire this way of habit. i think of quite some formal religions have solid intentions, yet go approximately issues in a backwards way. I additionally think of that the stringent, formal attitude, with the regulations and tenets, undermine the invidual's skill to think of independently and creatively. i'm constructive Jesus became a great guy and God's son and all, yet he could be embarassed at how some Christians behave if he have been to verify them on the instant. consequently, i do no longer carry on with religions because of the fact like something, they have been corrupted. whilst human beings give up thinking for themselves and initiate following information of unknown foundation, you could desire to initiate asking some questions. ask your self If there's a God, does he have a will? Did he communicate with human beings in the international? Did God coach men them to record his will for all to be responsive to? and finally, Do men constantly do merely as they're informed? All i'm asserting, is look, Joe or Jack or John or whoever wrote a majority of those historic texts, they weren't the author, they have been the interpreter. men are liable to deviating from the actuality, ommiting the actuality, distorting the actuality, and flat out mendacity. to no longer point out the literal meanings could have been lost in translation whilst the Bible, as an occasion, became converted from Aramaic, to Hebrew, to Greek, to Latin, to German, and finally to English. Then human beings easily have the nerve to take each and every thing they study from the Bible actually, as though the unique meaning continues to be one hundred% intact. faith is super. yet human beings could desire to give up being sheep, and initiate being their very own shepherd.

Answer 5

Believing in God without knowing more about God without question, then religion comes into view that muddles the acceptance of God.

Finally, accepting the truth leads me into my enlightenment that leadership stands up along the way to be were God should be.

Answer 6

I expect you might have meant to type monotheistic, but I thought that your use of monolithic is interesting, given the definition...

mon·o·lith·ic (mŏn'ə-lĭth'ĭk) pronunciation
adj.

1. Constituting a monolith: a monolithic sculpture.
2. Massive, solid, and uniform: the monolithic proportions of Stalinist architecture.
3. Constituting or acting as a single, often rigid, uniform whole: a monolithic worldwide movement.

Answer 7

I have always felt protected most of my life; I think I have been led by a voice in my head; as long as I keep trying to go forward. When I get distracted is when the devil finds his opportunity to move in. My most earnest prayers are answered a lot quicker now, maybe because I am older. I spent a few years in a lapse (desert) to get where I am now. I'm not sure about that monolithic? Guess I need to go look it up? Peace to all.

Answer 8

I guess it could depend on the age or the ability to understand of the individual. Head knowledge, thinking, intelligence(or lack of) come with age. A person might know Bible stories and some things about Jesus, but that isn't saving faith or actually knowing God. Actually knowing God comes from faith, trust, and knowing how a person is saved. It's good to know stories and events as displayed in the Bible but that is just intellectual assent. A non-believer might know Biblical stories. I guess most everyone of an adult age knows the Christmas story and that being the birth of Christ, as written in the Bible. But that is just knowledge or receiving a Biblical account. It's when a person trusts such an account and what it ultimately means and led to that counts. Jesus birth was the starting point of His earthly life. His earthly life led to His ministry. And His ministry led to His death. His death marked our salvation. When a person knows, honors, believes, and has faith in this as their gift of salvation they have gone from head knowledge (temporal assent) to faith.

Answer 9

For me, it was knowing that God existed, then I looked for a religion that explained the God of my understanding.

Answer 10

Kinda the same as monte54que.

Figured out that some deity was the most logical explanation for things, and then used process of elimination to figure out whose 'god' was the right one. It was only after I eliminated every other religion that I came to Christianity.

Monolithic?

Answer 11

You learn about your god from the religion you are raised in. You are born as a blank slate...the ultimate agnostic. It is religious indoctrination and teaching at a young age that instills the notion of "God" in people. There is no such thing as "inborn knowledge".