Explain if you can why you believe your truth. I understand there will be babes in faith that arent yet able to articulat their belief yet. Feelings dont count, they can be corrupted.
2007-11-25 07:26:09 · 13 answers · asked by Stephanie S 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Charles Manson believes like first answer, truth is relative. Then we are wrong for jailing people.
2007-11-25 07:32:38 · update #1
Yogini; I agree,yours is not the only path but to where? No good; you prove your open mindedness by being an A. hope that answers all Q.Cubs fan; unless your an archeologist, your belief is based on a mans word. I agree with your end but not your means of getting there. Let me; you didnt explain but you are correct i think. Soror; Feelings dont count, I will look up Al. to see but, why do you believe?Bub..; Why? Meis; False documents are made every day and there are just as many to the contrairy along with fos. and rec. Old guy;in the pursuit of knoledge one must wonder how we became, and seek the best hypothesis.Canada; not true,one could take that as a close minded statement.Jeff; you dont need the old testament, even though Jesus confirmed much of it, to believe in the truth.Pass; Way to articalate! Thanks.Ramb; 2nd place,When opinions are stated as opinions then we know said persons educated guess. If a person states a fact, then it should be tested. True, seekers are more capable!
2007-11-27 11:22:11 · update #2
Well, first I would have to start by saying I don't believe in what I have, I know of it. I took nothing on face value, but instead I was walked, like baby steps from my youth into experiences that provided confusion until I was given more understanding and capacity of those experiences. So it's not at all a thing of belief for me, because it has been direct experience, or Gnosis. There was no guideline I was to follow. If your knowledge has to come through direct experience, acquaintance then it counts for little. If it has not become an experience within you, that has movement then it counts for nothing. One must prove all things.
To me belief is entry-level. It's like going on a job with an individual and at first they say I want you to do this and that on the first day. You don't know if what they are asking you will result in anything, you don't really understand the process with any depth, but you do it in faith, having faith that your actions will reap some result. Faith suffices experiences, you must have some faith in the laws in order to believe that what you are doing will reap some type of benefit, that it will increase in some measure. The problem is if you are willing to live the truth "as you understand" then it can't become an enlightening experience where your capacity of the truth heightens and improves.
About truth, well technically it isn't truth that is relative, rather it is understanding that is. One must always remember that people perceive through their filters of beliefs, their perspective that merely clings to a fragment (division in mind) that is both a strength and great weakness and limitation. People understand the truth by the Light that is given unto them to understand it, this Light is through their development in mind and being. Truth is very much a growing thing, and there is different rungs upon the ladder of truth, which suffices the place where an individual is at in their development. In my mind truth is what is become and you can have no greater truth than what you are willing to live in thought, desire, action, and deed. There is the Truth, but how can one perceive Wholeness or Fullness with a mind that is conditioned and divided against itself? Our minds attempting to reflect the image of truth like mirror is broken into shards. Many only perceive and cling to a single shard, these things must be brought together into a unified whole to see the image in wholeness. This world is like a big school institution, I would gather that at the level of a 1st grader simple addition, subtraction is perceived as the whole Truth of math and it is at that very limited level which only defines a very limited instruction of math. From the level of a second grader it is beyond that, from the level of a 9th grader way beyond it, from the level of a college student, forget about it. There appears to be differing truths because there is differing levels of understanding that provides a window into the development of the mind, a mind that is divided where each part must be developed. I for one would not say a 1st grader is wrong. IN this world there is immaturity of mind and there is maturity, the more divided one is within their mind the more immature they are.
2007-11-25 11:04:35 · answer #1 · answered by Automaton 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My 'truth' has been tested already. God gave the Jews, and Christians the 'two or more witnesses' principle (Jews; Deut. 10-20 about three times, Christians Matt. 18:16, 2 Cor. 13:1). (Muslims have a similar principle also). That (amongst other reasons) is why I do not accept the scriptural 'old testament' as being Genesis-Malachi currently.
2007-11-25 07:45:52 · answer #2 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that what matters is whether or not there is a truth. If there is a truth, then gods are subject to the laws of that truth, so then truth is the over-arching law.
As for what that truth is - who honestly knows? There is no need to pretend knowing when both man and god abide by it, but it is good to try and know.
As for seeking truth - there are different modes of religiosity, and I tend to think that earnest seekers are the ones capable of the most good. (as opposed to the 'knowers' who are comfortable with their level of knowledge and set opinions).
2007-11-25 16:42:36 · answer #3 · answered by rambling vine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It appears to me that we have a choice between belief and knowledge. There are many areas in our human sphere of knowledge that are in desperate need of continued research and development. Some of these go right to the roots of our experience of life itself so, it may be possible to make your pursuit of truth lead towards a belief. What in fact is a hypothesis if not a belief?
2007-11-25 07:36:57 · answer #4 · answered by Old guy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe my truth because I'm allowed to question it but I do not feel that mine is the only path by any means. Many blessings
Buddhist
2007-11-25 07:29:20 · answer #5 · answered by Yogini 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe what I believe because when I came across Spiritual Alchemy, it felt like home. i was raised a Christian, and accepted Christ, but it never felt real. I studied Buddhism, Wicca, and plenty of others along the way. When I got here, I just knew. Thanks for asking!
2007-11-25 07:30:35 · answer #6 · answered by Katie Short, Atheati Princess 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My belief has thousands of documents to prove it along with countless studies, fossils, and records.
I am of course an atheist and I understand evolution.
2007-11-25 07:33:08 · answer #7 · answered by meissen97 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Could be an atheist, and have no religion and still be an open minded seeker of truth
2007-11-25 07:29:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
atheist. the only view one can hold with an open mind, all religions demand close minded acceptance of stupid mythologies
2007-11-25 07:37:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i do not believe in truth, or for that matter false. they are both a matter of personal perception. each to their own i say!
2007-11-25 07:29:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋