2007-12-28 13:40:05 · 16 answers · asked by piperthegreat 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am Christian and my religion is deeply important to me, because the matter of birth, death, creation, and belief questions me. A religion helps you gain strength and courage to do things. It doesn't make you afraid of death, but favor it since there is a "heaven" and "hell" in most religions. You can understand that the world is actually fair as God promised us that if you are hurt deeply by one, that one will be punished by God. You feel more bright, optimistic, and happy with a religion. It is important also because theories of science clash in this subject. The Big Bang, Adam and Eve, Creationism, and death all clash in here. It's important yet I think it is fascinating. The science of religion is the most difficult yet interesting science there is.
2007-12-28 13:49:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Heathen
Because it fits my life and I fit it. It requires that I live an honorable life, to care for my family (at personal cost, if need be), honor the deities and the land. To be courageous and loyal, strive for wisdom and truth and live up to obligations to the community. It fits in ways that Christianity never did.
I'm part of a religion that is being reconstructed and I find that exciting. I have more self respect than I did before.
2007-12-28 22:02:44 · answer #2 · answered by Aravah 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when studing the bible I discovered [Ro 10:2] everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.This assurence was delightful because I suffered from extreme anxiety attacks.So then I could see I needed more information [Ro 10:2] they have a zeal for god: but not accordingto accurate knowledge:[4] Christ is the end of the law,so that everyone excerising faith may have righteousness.[1Tim2;5]For there is one God ,and one mediator between God and men,Christ Jesus. I always from childhood knew that Christ was Gods son though my families religion taught the trinity.We went to church but someone preached to us they never used the bible so I was totaly ignorant to what God had to say.So I was ready to listened with my heart to [2tim2:25] That instructing with[ mildness] those not favorably disposed ,as to an accurate knowledge of God's truth, so to become righteous and return back to there proper sences ,out of the Devil's snare,seeing that they had been caught alive by him, for the will of Satan the Devil. I then studied till I could defend my faith in God from his own bible and then dedicated my life ,pessessions and whole soul to Jehovah God.Then I was immursed in water as the outward symbol that my being baptized . I had made the unconditional dedication through Jesus Christ. To do the will of his Father Jehovah God. I've been with him over 27 yrs and I learn more all the time this continually reafirms my original faith and my love is deeper than then. I'm truly grateful to serve our God that blesses all of us each day .He makes it rain ,sunshine and food grow for the righteous and unrighteous. he's a happy ,loving God .Once you make the effort to really know him you can't ever stop unless Satan has caught you.I pray for his Kingdom to come upon the earth as it is in heaven so all men will live in righteous,peaceful,loving conditions under the Kingship of Christ and his adopted brothers from the earth.My Faith is my support ,joy and my dedication to God.
2007-12-28 22:34:06 · answer #3 · answered by oatesmokid 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Athiest because the concepts of religion are based on unproven speculation, the wildest fantasies, contradictions and all unsupported by any corroberating evidence. It is incredible, unbelievable. If any of it is true then this god that is describes is an accomplice to murder, and has acconplished mass murder and genocide - all with the fore knowledge that the events would all happen.
2007-12-28 21:56:26 · answer #4 · answered by organbuilder272 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My relationship with my Savior Jesus Christ is very personal. God found me at a very trublent time in my life. It was in my junior year of high school. I went to this Christian camp called "Disciple Now". I was raised in a Christian home, but the Holy Spirit had not yet come because I had not yet had faith in Jesus Christ to forgive all my sins at the cross. The camp made me question what I believed. I finally came to point where I told myself if I don't believe now in the sacrifice of Christ I would never believe on my own. So, I believe that only way for me to be a believer was to ask God. I asked God to reveal himself to me praying in the name of Jesus. I want to say about a week after that I was crying one night because Jesus died to save me at the cross. I was crying, and it was an emotional time. I also was kind of hard on myself because I never "got it" all those times I went to church.
2007-12-28 21:46:49 · answer #5 · answered by Dreamcast 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because through my religion I live my oaths to my gods, and place myself in harmony with the flow of the universe, and as I do so I am molded and shaped into a better person, and I can carry the blessings of that into family, community, and nation to heal the wounds we suffer.
I am Wiccan.
2007-12-28 21:45:51 · answer #6 · answered by Alexandra L 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't say my beliefs are a religion, but yes, they are important to me.
Logic dictates that if my beliefs were not important to me, I wouldn't have them, now would I?
Nope, I am not an atheist either.
2007-12-28 21:45:23 · answer #7 · answered by Jim! 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, I'm both religious and an atheist. (My religion just doesn't include deities... At least not external ones.)
My religion is important because it teaches me how to grown an develop as a person. It allows me freedom of emotional growth and spirituality.
As for atheism, it gounds me and keeps me sane. :-D
2007-12-28 21:46:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am a Gnostic Chrisitian and my tradition is very important to me. It allows me to find my path and seek higher consciousness.
2007-12-28 21:42:47 · answer #9 · answered by Mark W 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There is insufficient empirical evidence to support the hypothesis of a god or gods.
2007-12-28 21:43:36 · answer #10 · answered by What? Me Worry? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋