Gaura Priya
IRL
Life experience, and without expectation of results in life, culminates in a more balanced mind, in my most humble opinion. 
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Reason for Faith
- Thread starter D-MITCH777
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A feeling. Maybe it's nothing more than just an electro-chemical reaction in part of my cerebral cortex, or maybe that's the tool God uses to inspire us. Some people listen to it, others override it. I listen to it.
Gaura Priya
IRL
Those voices in your head are pretty convincing, eh? :bow:
D-MITCH777
Member
Does anyone have faith because they feel they evidence which proves it?
Well, if there was proof or evidence, it wouldn't be faith, now, would it?
Storm
ThrUU the Looking Glass
That's where the personal experience comes in.
Depends on one's understanding of faith.
D-MITCH777
Member
Ok. I understand that most of your faith in God comes from your personal experiences, but why have you picked the faith you practice. What makes you practice your chosen religion in stead of another.
I like it better. ^_^
First not all religions invite for faith. Some religions don't even have the self awareness that they are religions. They thus never or seldom mention that you need to BELIEVE. Only Abrahamic religions are clear about belief itself.
Second, all religions have dogmas which nowaday humans can hardly keep. The more modernized human societies are the more difficult for them to keep such dogmas and "laws". And only Christianity realized this to provide an alternative 2000 thousand years ago. The Bible even said it directly that because your kind can hardly keep His Law and covenants signed with your ancestors that He provided an alternative. Jesus brought us a New Covenant that, sinners (law breakers) can by-pass the Law to survive themselves on the Judgment Day.
Storm
ThrUU the Looking Glass
Because my fellow UUs are the only ones who'll have me (the feeling is mutual)!
javajo
Well-Known Member
Well, this is just a footnote. I am a Christian partly because Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh to the Father but by me." I thought, huh, either he is crazy or ly8ing or telling the truth. I knew from reading about him he wasn't crazy or a liar so I figured he was telling the truth.
You know a lot of the Gods in various religions say the same thing. Is that really a good reason for believing on something? I mean this question respectfully.
javajo
Well-Known Member
I give my answer respectfully. I think there is a vast difference between Christ and Christianity and other religions and their gods. Jesus came so we could have life, more abundantly and eternally. Hinduism and Buddhism say life is a great evil (paganism makes life miserable)so we should seek at the end, Nirvana where as a drop of water each of us falls into the ocean and cease to exist as a person. They teach the cessation of if life, of personal consciousness. Christ teaches eternal life of each person in paradise. If Christ teaches life is to be lived abundantly and others teach it is something to escape from, Life can't be two different things, A cannot be A and non-A. One is true one is not. Well, I could go on and on, but I'll save it. That's just sorta how I believe.
Uh, no they don't. Buddhism teaches that all things in THIS life ultimately lead to dissatisfaction. Since he couldn't describe what nirvana is, he had to use negatives to describe it.
Hinduism has three goals of life: Dharma, Artha (wealth), Kama (pleasure), and Moksha. Most people only seek the first three, and they are just as Hindu as those who seek Moksha (liberation.)
Plenty of Hindus believe that we retain our identities after Moksha.
chinu
chinu
Not your mistake -- all that you feel like this -- is because of this word: I -- otherwise everything happens naturally.
_/\_
Chinu
javajo
Well-Known Member
Right, and Jesus teaches we can have life more abundantly despite hardship or persecution.
But they must do something to attain these, we have our life from Christ.
Glad to here that.
blackout
Violet.
javajo
Well-Known Member
It was just a bit of a joke, sorta. Please forgive me. Sorry to offend.
blackout
Violet.
It didn't offend, I just couldn't imagine how you came up with such a conclusion. ?
In the end I had found that it was christianity that had made a misery of my life.
And that is no joke. Neither was it a "sort of".
Christianity almost killed me.
I am SOOOO much happier as a pagan.
There is absolutely no comparison.
So I just was wondering what was the basis for your statement.
javajo
Well-Known Member
Cool. That must have been some brand of "Christianity" that nearly killed you! I'm glad you're happy anyway. There is a story of an atheist who came upon one of the Fiji (I believe) Islands and there was a tribal chief with a Bible in his hut. He made some comment about it and the Chief pointed to a rock and told him that's where they smashed stranger's heads in, and pointed to an oven and said that's where we cooked them for supper, before we became Christians. Darwin even praised the results of Christian Missionaries and said if someone was shipwrecked and landed on a foreign shore, he'd better pray the missionaries had been there before. I know that's not what you asked, but I just see all the darkness and suffering in other lands like India, N. Korea, China, Myanmar, (much of Asia) and in other places where people suffer and are oppressed by false religions and atheistic governments and demon worshiping priests. Christianity is light and love shining into the darkness of these terrible places.