How many religious philosophies have you studied?

Question

Have you really put fourth the effort? Can you call yourself open minded if you haven't?

Answer 1

I will always be studying the world's religions, and will always try to learn from them.

Answer 2

Matthew,
If I go to a math class and learn how to add, do I need to learn all the ways not to add so that people will consider me able to add open-mindedly?

I want to see if you can understand these verses:

13 Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

In case that seems unclear to you, I would like to explain it to you. It took me years to pay attention to these verses.

Jesus was saying that we would never thirst again. Of course, he wasn't talking about the kind of water someone might drink, you know; H2O, he was talking about the water that was spiritual - the truth. Once someone hears the truth of the Gospel, they might accept it. If they accept it then they do not have to wonder any more what the truth is. So we never thirst again because we don't need to know any other religion, Jesus just got through telling us that He is the truth.

I just so happened to do a report on Zoroastrianism, and have talked to many different faiths about their religion. Islam, Jewish, Mormon, Atheist, Agnostic, there are many belief systems that I have purposefully sought out because when they say some things I want to know what got them to the conclusions that they reached to make the statements that they make.

So I might be open-minded, but I am also curious. But there comes a time when I must part with those other faiths because quite frankly, they get boring after a while, none of them have the attraction that I get from what I know about Jesus Christ.

Answer 3

I have not studied any other than Christianity.
I can call myself open-minded because I respect others' rights to worship (or not) as they please.


I think you mean "put FORTH the effort," as "fourth" is the ordinal number for 4.

Answer 4

Alot in Philosophy class, but I had a 15 year head start on my studies before I went to college. But most of my early studies concentrated on holistic healing in ancient religions.

Celtic, Native American, Shamanism, Hindu, Buddist, Kabala (Pagan and Jewish),

Raised Christian, Methodist. Familiar with Baptist, Lutheran and Pentacostal.
Married (non-praticing) Catholics...twice.

Answer 5

Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Manichiism, Mandaism, Zoroastrianism, Gnostic Philosophy, Ancient Paganism (Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Norse, and Greek), Theosophy, New Thought, Bahai, Sikhism, Jainism, and Judaism. Inclusion and acceptance require understanding your neighbor. It is impossible to "Love your neighbor", if you won't take the time to get to know something about them.

Answer 6

i'd say philosophy is extra approximately posing questions and finding the respond to those questions, while many faiths are comparable in that it solutions questions (regardless of the undeniable fact that it could no longer ask them, it solutions the follower's questions) yet with the aid of a collection dogma and preparation.

Answer 7

I don't call myself open-minded at all. I am very close minded. I only believe the truth. Nothing short of that satisfies me. That's why I'm Christian. Once you have heard the truth the religious philosophies are totally inadequate and barren in comparison.

Answer 8

Islam, Hindu, Mormon, Kabbalah, Jewish, and a total immersion into Christianity.

Answer 9

Baptist Christianity
Catholicism
Mormonism
Wicca
Seax Wicca
Celtic reconstruction
Roman reconstruction
Anglo-Saxon heathenism
Heathenism

added: sorry, forgot Shamanism (surface stuff, not indepth) and Satanism

Answer 10

I lost count . .