Do you have your religious belief because...?

Question

1 You researched all/most/lots of the different type of beliefs in the world.

2 You researched all/most/lots of only a FEW of the beliefs in the world

3 You researched all/most/lots within a category (like Christianity, Islam, Non-religions, etc).

4 You were told by your family, friends, church what to believe and went with that.

Please state your religious belief please.
Thank you,

Answer 1

1. <--- I have researched most of the different belief systems, and there was one, Ralien, that I really liked the idea of, but I didn't truly believe.

I am a proud aetheist. I am someone who cares not so much about the individual, but more about humankind in general. I believe life leaves us with one thing only, influence. Our influence is our immortality, and is what should make us strive for moral rightness.

I think religion is a dangerous tool, because it makes people do right only due to their God-fearing natures. And global warming might not be such an issue if people cared less about their position in a fictional after-life, and more about how to help the earth which is concrete in its need for our help. Unlike the prospect "god" which is abstract in is needs.

Answer 2

I came to where I am via the long road. I've researched/dabbled in "lots of the different types of beliefs in the world" and wound up with a sorta of eclectic "all paths/ blind men and the elephant" sorta belief system which I was perfectly content with until I decided to major in Philosophy (stupid Law of Non Contradiction!)
Long story made short - here I stand, a Bonafide Believer (read Christian - but I couldn't come up with an adjective that started with "c" I liked as well as "bonafide" - and I'm not really looking for any suggestions - lol).

Answer 3

None of them. I believe what I believe because I got on my knees before my God and asked him if what I believed was true and I got a confirmation that it was. Belief is personal, there is no way around it. I went on to study many of the world religions, but never as a serious student of them, I had gained faith and that is all that counts in these sort of things. I am a Christian. It should be noted that I am also somthing of a scientist in that I know how to think like one and decide like one. However faith is rather different than science and I leave them in their different places until I have enough knowledge that I no longer need faith.

Answer 4

my religious teachings were learned through Study and prayer and pondering.
but I first became a believer when someone taught me the doctrine of the "rapture" Of course i didnt want to live in this mortal "toil" so when she gave me a bible i began to read it and i began to pray.

Line upon line i learned what to believe. precept upon precept i began to learn what is not true as well.

because of what ihave studied and been taught, i dont believe in the christian tradition (imagination) of the trinity. but there sure are a lot of good ideas that prove a false doctrine.

finaly one day, i was frustrated with the different views of church and religion when it came to teaching biblical truths. i found the bible says that Paul said to desire the gift of prophecy because it was the greatest to be able to teach (the church) correct principles. Cor 14 or 13 last verse.
i prayed and fasted and received personal revelations and a few visions. What i was taught, i had never heard before in most christian theology.
what i was taught I found later to be taught only in the LDS mormon religion.
I found out that another young boy of 14 had similar difficulties in choosing a church, so he found a verse in the book of james which said to ask of God if you lack wisdom. He went to pray and lo and behold, God and Jesus appeared to him, and when this young man asked God which church to join was told not to join ANY religions because THEY all taught doctrines of men.
So, while i was raised by a mother who was excommunicated from the catholic church, and I had received a bible, and saw an angel, and had revelations and then beheld the glory of the visitation of Jesus, and studied all my life, I have found that my beliefs have become what they are by all of these influences and sometimes through many tears and frustrations. but mostly I believe in God because God gave us the scriptures, both the bible and BoM and the Church doctrine.
Seeing the glory of Jesus christ is the best thing that has ever happened to me, and, oh yeah, IT IS better than Sex.

Answer 5

I am a Christian..I used to be agnostic..I have to say I believe because ....1 You researched all/most/lots of the different type of beliefs in the world.

Answer 6

I am a Mormon because I researched alot of different beliefs including Taoism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and many sects within Christianity. As I researched, the only religion I found that truly accepted each person's struggle for Truth and pursuit of happiness was Mormonism. Plus the Christian Gospel resonated more with my personal need for comfort and redemption in my life. Then as I embraced it, I found that my life was consistently better when I lived by the precepts taught in the Book of Mormon. I still want to research some more eastern religions, just for their emphasis on meditation and enlightenment, but as far as Christianity goes, only Mormonism made sense to me.

Answer 7

I am Native American, but was born a Catholic. I was baptized Catholic and went to Catacism and then began to search out my Indian Culture and beliefs. I also, began to read about the Southwest Native American beliefs and experimented with translation of spirit. I also read much about Budda and the Hindu beliefs. I was then awakened one night by Jesus Christ and shown he is God. I soon converted to Christian, because since that night I knew for sure which one is true.

Answer 8

3 You researched all/most/lots within a category (like Christianity, Islam, Non-religions, etc).

I am a Christian.

Answer 9

I'm pagan. I researched a large variety of religions. Buddhism, catholicsm, Judaeism, Islamic, Mormonism, and several other religions. None of them seemed to fit me. But the polytheistic beliefs I now follow did.
My father's side of the family is catholic and baptist. Neither of those beliefs seemed to hit home with me. My mother's side of the family was never very religious.

Answer 10

I guess it would fit in your 4) it started out with family, and it works for me, so I don't need to shop around for new ones.
If I don't agree with parts of it, I don't go out and try to find a new denomination or entirely new religion that has all the old stuff but agrees with me better on a few issues, I just continue to disagree on some issues.