Is it possible to believe in God, but not religious doctrine?

Question

Is this contridictory? Is it possible that God exists, but no one has recorded his or her thoughts correctly? I have not read any other religous texts, but some parts of the Bible make little to no sense in my opinion. Does a non-sensical Bible disprove God, or could he still exist?

Can the holy spirit tell me why the OT says not to eat from a cloven hoof, but Christians all eat pork? Why does the OT ban homosexuality, but people choose to hate gays and eat bacon? People seem to believe in what is conveinent to their own ajenda.

Answer 1

You'd probably get closer to having a true connection with god, the creator, deity, or whatever you choose to call it if you chucked the doctrine out the window. All that crap was written by human beings, not by any god. You don't need some other person to tell you how to honor or worship your chosen god. You are intelligent enough to figure it out for yourself. It's when they start telling you that any book has all the answers that you should run screaming the other direction.

Answer 2

YES!!! Absolutely. Especially since most people don't understand the doctrines to start with, the doctrines just become ways of putting up walls between "us" and "them". I think doctrines have value, btw, but they're often incredibly misused. Also, most Christians don't interpret the Bible as the literal, dictated words of God. There are other ways to understand and interpret it. Let me know if you need help...

Peace to you.

Answer 3

surely, you may believe in God with none formal practise or doctrine. I grew up genuinely faithless, my mom and that i could attempt a church now and then over the years, yet would desire to no longer stumble on a faith homestead she became chuffed in. each thing felt pretend and contrived. finally, i got here across my thank you to Catholicism, and it rang actual for the two myself and my mom...yet in basic terms after years of finding. i will say, however, that as a baby, with a baby's youthful eyes and open heart, I continually knew God existed and enjoyed me. It wasn't because of the fact a preacher instructed me, or a Sunday college fed it to me, or a toddlers group in severe college introduced me in. It became an trouble-free fact of the international around me, and the sparkling thought that each thing and all and sundry got here from someplace. the super thought of humankind and the universe we inhabit, had to be somebody's thought...why no longer God? it relatively is an thought taken on faith, definite. So is our faith in human nature, or faith that the solar will arise day after today, the international will pass on, existence will proceed. I worked out my faith in God way until eventually now I ever took all people else's viewpoint or rendition of the Bible into attention. It only proves that if your seek for Him is an truthful and open minded one, you will discover Him.

Answer 4

When you ask Jesus into your heart, the Holy Spirit then comes in and shows you things about the Bible that do not make sense. Without Him, the Bible can be very confusing. Ask God personally to show you His ways, He is ready and willing to do this for you, because He loves you and wants you to understand His ways.

Answer 5

Just because the bible doesn't make sense to you, doesn't mean it is non-sensical. The bible is the word of God. The handbook of life. The answers are there for the reading.

Answer 6

Hell to the yeah, you can. Most Unitarian Universalists do. Actually, nearly all of them do. It's not about dogma, what (religions and religious books tell you to think), but what you want to believe.

Answer 7

Yes, that is possible. Millions of people believe that way. But technically, that is a doctrine.

Answer 8

Yes and vice versa even in some instances.

Answer 9

The Lord is not a personal savior. His blood washed
away every one from their sins.

Answer 10

Yes.