Someone on here before said, %26quot;There is no religion that is 100% correct.%26quot; If a religion is not 100% correct when you join why would you join in the first place. I'm sure there are things about your religion that you disagree with. Technically joining a religion and changing the beliefs to fit your needs is going against the religion. If the religion is right there should be no need to change it.I have a question for all religious people?Understand that religion is based on human experience, and human experience expands and grows over time!
For example, the Jewish scriptures are the codified experience, written accounts, of what happened to slaves in Egypt who found themselves in a new land, and the experiences of prophets who sensed that the Lord was speaking through them.
The New Testament relates the experience of Jesus' followers, who saw him heal many, who learned from his wise words, who were challenged by his call to love even enemies, and who saw him crucified -- yet later saw and touched him as alive again, and felt the power of his Spirit in their lives.
I accept those writings as ways to help me understand my own religious experiences -- a framework I use to live my life in, just as African or Asian immigrants accept the %26quot;story%26quot; of America becoming free from England in 1776. My Norwegian great-grandparents spoke of %26quot;us%26quot; becoming free even though we were not on this continent in 1776, and the meaning of all people being created equal is a treasure we embrace. Likewise, I have had experiences of healing and of joy and of forgiveness, and reconciliation -- and also visions and miracles. I interpret these experiences of mine using the Judeo-Christian %26quot;lens%26quot; or framework or frame of reference.
I may disagree with certain scriptures or *interpretations* of passages, partly because context and situation changes over time, and partly because we have experienced things that Old Testament patriarchs had not yet experienced.
Also important to realize is that in both Judaism and Christianity, it isn't just about a book! Rabbis and bishops and pastors and people talk together, and pray, and try to gain new understandings over time. If you ever read the Jewish Talmud, you'd find that rabbis all tried to glean truth from the opinions of other rabbis. Same thing among Christians (except the stupidly dogmatic ones).
I may myself be a Christian, and hang my hat on Jesus who preached total love and who rose again -- but that does not mean I therefore deny the experiences of other people around the globe.
I admire Gautama Siddhartha, the Buddha, and view him as inspired and holy.
I respect the Dalai Lama of Tibet.
I think Sufism is fascinating.
Though I dislike some attitudes of some Muslim groups about women and such, I admire their praying 5 times daily, and giving to the poor.
I am trying to learn more about Hinduism, and I'm open to the possibility of reincarnation.
Religion is not a set of golden books that fall down from the sky. Religion is the real experience of real human beings with a power -- a presence -- a love -- we call %26quot;God%26quot;.
And like children learning how to spell better, and progressing from addition and subtraction to multiplication and division -- and later to geometry, algebra and calculus -- we learn and grow in religion too!
Anyone who tells you otherwise doesn't understand religion very well, and is probably a narrow-minded person wearing blinders.
Love and wisdom to you, dear friend.I have a question for all religious people?All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining life’s purpose.
Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but also a caricatured view of even the best-known ones. Every religion at its core is exclusive.
But the concept of “many ways” was absorbed subliminally in one’s life as a youngster. One is conditioned into that way of thinking before he or she had found out its smuggled prejudices. It takes years to find out that the cry for openness is never what it purports to be. What the person means by saying, “ you must be open to everything” is really, “You must be open to everything that I am open to, and anything that I disagree with, you must disagree with too. “
Indian culture has that veneer of openness, but it is highly critical of anything that hints at a challenge to it. It is no accident that within that so-called tolerant culture was birthed the caste system. All-inclusive philosophies can only come at the cost of truth. And no religion denies its core beliefs.
Jesus on the other hand:
Historians, poets, philosophers-and a host of others have regarded Him as the centrepiece of history. He himself made a statement that was very dramatic and daring when He said to the apostle Thomas, “ I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me “ (J 14:6). Every word of that statement challenges the fundamental beliefs of the Indian culture, and in reality, actually stands against an entire world today.
Just look at the implicit claims in that statement. First and foremost, He asserted that there is only one way to God. That shocks post-modern moods and mind-sets. Hinduism and Bahaism have long challenged the concept of a single way to God. The Hindu religion, with its multifaceted belief system, vociferously attacks such exclusivity.
Jesus also unequivocally stated that God is the Author of life and that meaning in life lies in coming to Him. This assert would be categorically denied by Buddhism which is a nontheistic if not atheistic religion.
Jesus revealed Himself as the Son of God who led the way to the Father.
Islam considers that claim to be blasphemous. How can God have a Son?
Jesus claimed that we can personally know God and the absolute nature of His truth. Agnostics deny that possibility.
One can go down the line and see that every claim that Jesus made of Himself challenges every culture’s most basic assumptions about life and meaning. (It is important to remember, of course, that these basic religions within the Indian framework are also not in concert with each other. Buddha was a Hindu before he rejected some of Hinduism’s fundamental doctrines and conceived in their place the Buddhist way. Islam radically differs from Hinduism.)
Only Jesus is called the Prince of Peace !!! that is why is worthy of following and accepting His message !!!
C S Lewis expands on the idea and shows why the non Christian really has no logical alternative but to accept that Jesus is God:
“I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.” That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic-on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg-or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse.
You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. “I have a question for all religious people?If you ask a Muslim %26quot;Which religion is correct?%26quot; They will say Islam. If you ask them if other religions are correct, they will say no.
The same applies to most all religions. They view themselves as correct and everything else as wrong.Most people just join because their parents were part of that church/religion. I think people just grab a religion that works best in their lives.Good point, why don't people realize this?@ amy:
For your sake, I do hope you're joking.People join religions not because they believe it is 100% right, but because they (vaguely) share a common believe with a community of people. The end.I personally don't believe in %26quot;joining%26quot; a religion. I believe in following the moral values of a religion. No religion can ever be proven right or wrong to us still living, therefore, we have no facts to say whether there is no way a religion can be 100% correct or not. We don't know that. I think that no matter what you believe, whatever happens will happens. Just live your life as a good person for you because you want to, not so you don't burn in hell or whatever you believe.Either Jesus was the Son of God, or a fairy from the planet Voltrexx. Now, I don't know about you, but I've never even heard of Voltrexx in my life!
Ergohence, Jesus must be the Son of God! That's something we Christians call %26quot;logic%26quot;, atheists!For the record, not following every belief taught by a religion may go against many religions, but in Buddhism, you are encouraged ot practice only those truths which you have experienced or believe to be true, without being penalized.We know that the bible is the Word of God because of the prophecies. No other book does this.Well, the problem with the question is that you're assuming there are a significant number of religious people who are able to use logic. As the first answerer so beautifully showed, religious people don't have a reason and, when defending their beliefs, use the most circular logic- as in, I believe in God because the bible says he exists. Uhhh... and if I don't believe in God, your argument sounds ludicrous, because I obviously wouldn't believe in the bible, either. People believe their religion is right because 1. they want something to believe in and 2. believing that they alone are right gives them a sense of superiority.The real religion you have to seek...there is only one that Jesus made while here on earth not several...you will know by their conduct and im sure is a hard walk not easy...I believe I have found that religion but I will not tell anyone what I believe they have to find it their self. REsearch Research!!nice question. The religion now i am with and following is the religion followed by my elders, grand grand pa, grand pa, my parents. This is the religion created by countless maharishis, gurus. This is the religion showing the people good way of life. what else you need ?Samichs Said:
If the religion is right there should be no need to change it.
Bill Said:
Yes Patrick Henry explains religion and religionists the best .....
Patrick Henry quote:
“It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!”
What is the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
Gospel
GOS'PEL, n. [L. evangelium, a good or joyful message.]
The history of the birth, life, actions, death, resurrection, ascension and doctrines of Jesus Christ; or a revelation of the grace of God to fallen man through a mediator, including the character, actions, and doctrines of Christ, with the whole scheme of salvation, as revealed by Christ and his apostles. This gospel is said to have been preached to Abraham, by the promise, %26quot;in thee shall all nations be blessed.%26quot;
(Galatians 3:8 KJV) And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
It is called the gospel of God.
(Romans 1:1 KJV) Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
It is called the gospel of Christ.
(Romans 1:16 KJV) For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
It is called the gospel of salvation.
(Ephesians 1:13 KJV) In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
(Ephesians 1:14 KJV) Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Maranatha
Good job AMY and Brie ... Douglas don't cut the ear off like Peter they just might use it to listen. %26lt;Friendly Smile%26gt;
When the Trumpet of the Lord shall sound and time shall be no more and The morning breaks eternal bright and Fair .....
Will you be there??
Happy days are here again the sky .....
Happy .... New Heaven and New Earth
No oily ocean!My faith is in Christ, not a religion or church.
I exercise my faith both in and out of that church, and worship in a structure that houses imperfect people who don't all agree on everything...
What you are defining, for me, is more akin to a cult than a church...no one group has the corner on truth, and the Holy Spirit leads, guides, directs, teaches, enlightens in His own time with each individual...you will see your faith grow and mature and change through your walk, to ever think you know it all or have somehow arrived is to lose sight of truth all together, and to ever be forced to conform to man's dictates is not of God.How do you know the religion you believe in is right?
First Judaism and then Christianity and then Islam arrived as a final religion. I believe Judaism and Christianism were right religions once they were sent. Later on Judaism became racist religion and Christianity degenerated as seeing humanbeings like a God.
So Islam arrived as a final religion. God promised to protect Islam forever. This is how I know my religion is right.for people who say that the bible is 100% accurate....here are some facts...
((When scientific investigation into the natural world resumed in the Renaissance—after a 1000-year-plus hiatus—organized Christianity did everything it could to stamp it out. The cases of Copernicus and Galileo are particularly relevant here, because when the Catholic Church banned the Copernican theory (that the Earth revolves around the sun) and banned Galileo from teaching it, it did not consider the evidence for that theory: it was enough that it contradicted scripture. Given that the Copernican theory directly contradicted the Word of God, the Catholic hierarchy reasoned that it must be false. Protestants shared this view. John Calvin rhetorically asked, “Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?” ))
so for a scripture that say earth doesn't revolve around the sun.....how can this be 100% right?I am a born again Christian and not concerned with religion. I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. All of my knowledge and understanding comes straight from Him, the Holy Spirit or the Father. Yes I go to church but, I am non denominational. Religion is something that man has made and has turned it into rituals that take away from a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. I am not talking about us assembling ourselves, and God's Word. To have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ you have to read His Word and obey it and not compromise or contradict it in any way.Ask yourself these questions.
(1)?On what are its teachings based? Are they from God, or are they largely from men? (2?Tim. 3:16; Mark 7:7) Ask, for example: Where does the Bible teach that God is a Trinity? Where does it say that the human soul is immortal?
(2)?Consider whether it is making known the name of God. Jesus said in prayer to God: “I have made your name manifest to the men you gave me out of the world.” (John 17:6) He declared: “It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.” (Matt. 4:10)
(3)?Is true faith in Jesus Christ being demonstrated? This involves appreciation of the value of the sacrifice of Jesus’ human life and of his position today as heavenly King. (John 3:36; Ps. 2:6-8)
(4)?Is it largely ritualistic, a formality, or is it a way of life? God strongly disapproves of religion that is merely a formalism. (Isa. 1:15-17) True religion upholds the Bible’s standard of morality and clean speech instead of weakly going along with popular trends. (1?Cor. 5:9-13; Eph. 5:3-5) Its members reflect the fruits of God’s spirit in their lives. (Gal. 5:22,?23)
(5)?Do its members truly love one another? Jesus said: “By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love among yourselves.” (John 13:35)
(6)?Is it truly separate from the world? Jesus said that his true followers would be “no part of the world.” (John 15:19) To worship God in a manner that he approves requires that we keep ourselves “without spot from the world.” (Jas. 1:27)
(7)?Are its members active witnesses concerning God’s Kingdom? Jesus foretold: “This good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.” (Matt. 24:14)im saved theu GOD HIMSELF...JESUS IS TRUE AND SO ARE THE TRinity churches. Im Methodist.B/c the bible has been out for miiiilllllllionssss of years and I mean, if you read it, everything is coming true. It's so crazy! I don't see how anyone can not believe in the bible if they've actually read it
