When someone correcting your own belief in a religion, how do you react?

[Spirit of Light]

I have to take this opportunity of a OP due to something that happen in a different OP.
@Meandflower actually corrected me in my own belief from within sufism/islam about my understanding of who Jesus is seen as in Islam. First was a bit surprised that a non muslim corrected me on a kind of big issue in the faith i hold.

To me, until today Jesus was "only a Prophet" but being corrected it seems now that Jesus also has been called Messiah in the Quran (Messiah in arabic is المسيح المنتظر meaning The Messiah awaited. So yes it seems like i was wrong.

So to the title of the OP
How do you react if you are clearly corrected in your religious belief from a non believer or someone from a different faith than your own?

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

I weigh whether they are properly understanding the subject and if so, I accept it.

 

[Spirit of Light]

I weigh whether they are properly understanding the subject and if so, I accept it.

I do a background check of what they say too, and if they are correct and i am wrong, i will change my understanding (it can be hard to do sometimes)

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Is this one of those "I'm virtuous, how about you" questions?

In other words: how many fundamentally different responses did you expect?

 

[Secret Chief]

I do a background check of what they say too, and if they are correct and i am wrong, i will change my understanding (it can be hard to do sometimes)

Ultimately this is not a school exam, it is the matter of your life and death. Are you trying to live a good life? Of course you are. The number of angels on the pin head is a trivia.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

I do a background check of what they say too, and if they are correct and i am wrong, i will change my understanding (it can be hard to do sometimes)

Can I ask. Can you take what people say as is since people are different opinions because of their former experience, maybe what they have learned, and general interpretations?

For example, there are atheists who have gone through ministry and theological school, have their degrees, and left their faith. You have believers who have been indoctrinated and know not too much about their faith academically but they know it in a spiritual sense and practice. People who criticize another person's faith, even if saying it is false, may give some insight in "why" to relieve confirmation bias and sensitivity to criticism and open to different views of the same or similar religion.

Instead of research, ask how, when, why, and so forth. When you take interest in other people's points of views (not excluding the other side in this), it opens more of a spiritual dialogue.

That, and if Sufisms isn't book-focused, wouldn't it be better to understand and gather insight from people's spiritual or moral experiences-not to see what they have in common and see if they are spiritual, just to have a human to human convo (which I find spiritual in itself)?

Some people may have a spiritual spark but don't label themselves that way nor have a religion or practice. I think it's more in one's character and morals and less about their spirit-uality.

My thoughts.

 

[Nimos]

I have to take this opportunity of a OP due to something that happen in a different OP.
@Meandflower actually corrected me in my own belief from within sufism/islam about my understanding of who Jesus is seen as in Islam. First was a bit surprised that a non muslim corrected me on a kind of big issue in the faith i hold.

To me, until today Jesus was "only a Prophet" but being corrected it seems now that Jesus also has been called Messiah in the Quran (Messiah in arabic is المسيح المنتظر meaning The Messiah awaited. So yes it seems like i was wrong.

So to the title of the OP
How do you react if you are clearly corrected in your religious belief from a non believer or someone from a different faith than your own?

You accept it and move on Did it fundamentally change your view on your religion or Jesus? If not, nothing lost I guess, you learned something. It doesn't change that Jesus is still what you already believed he was, now he is just something more

We all get things wrong constantly, whether it's our own beliefs or in regards to someone else's.

**: Obviously be sure to double check the information they are giving you first

 

[Spirit of Light]

Is this one of those "I'm virtuous, how about you" questions?

In other words: how many fundamentally different responses did you expect?

It is a honest question, and no i do not see my self as any special.
I was honestly very happy to be corrected by @Meandflower.

 

[Spirit of Light]

Can I ask. Can you take what people say as is since people are different opinions because of their former experience, maybe what they have learned, and general interpretations?

For example, there are atheists who have gone through ministry and theological school, have their degrees, and left their faith. You have believers who have been indoctrinated and know not too much about their faith academically but they know it in a spiritual sense and practice. People who criticize another person's faith, even if saying it is false, may give some insight in "why" to relieve confirmation bias and sensitivity to criticism and open to different views of the same or similar religion.

Instead of research, ask how, when, why, and so forth. When you take interest in other people's points of views (not excluding the other side in this), it opens more of a spiritual dialogue.

That, and if Sufisms isn't book-focused, wouldn't it be better to understand and gather insight from people's spiritual or moral experiences-not to see what they have in common and see if they are spiritual, just to have a human to human convo (which I find spiritual in itself).

Some people may have a spiritual spark but don't label themselves that way nor have a religion or practice. I think it's more in one's character and morals and less about their spirit-uality.

My thoughts.

I am honestly interested in other peoples understanding of all religions, and i do learn bits from every human being, i take what i see valuable to me, and leave the rest to them.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

I was honestly very happy to be corrected by @Meandflower.

OK - although that didn't quite address my second question.

 

[JoshuaTree]

Not their fault, not like they have free will, right?

 

[exchemist]

I have to take this opportunity of a OP due to something that happen in a different OP.
@Meandflower actually corrected me in my own belief from within sufism/islam about my understanding of who Jesus is seen as in Islam. First was a bit surprised that a non muslim corrected me on a kind of big issue in the faith i hold.

To me, until today Jesus was "only a Prophet" but being corrected it seems now that Jesus also has been called Messiah in the Quran (Messiah in arabic is المسيح المنتظر meaning The Messiah awaited. So yes it seems like i was wrong.

So to the title of the OP
How do you react if you are clearly corrected in your religious belief from a non believer or someone from a different faith than your own?

I am usually grateful, if sometimes a bit chastened, to be corrected on a point of teaching in the faith I know best (Catholic Christianity). So my understanding of the teaching is corrected. But my belief is a bit of a different thing. That is not identical to official teaching in many respects. Usually, being corrected on a point of official doctrine has no effect on my belief.

 

[Vinayaka]

I have to take this opportunity of a OP due to something that happen in a different OP.
@Meandflower actually corrected me in my own belief from within sufism/islam about my understanding of who Jesus is seen as in Islam. First was a bit surprised that a non muslim corrected me on a kind of big issue in the faith i hold.

To me, until today Jesus was "only a Prophet" but being corrected it seems now that Jesus also has been called Messiah in the Quran (Messiah in arabic is المسيح المنتظر meaning The Messiah awaited. So yes it seems like i was wrong.

So to the title of the OP
How do you react if you are clearly corrected in your religious belief from a non believer or someone from a different faith than your own?

I go nuts. I slap myself silly upside the face, and yell, "How could I have been so stupid?" Then I go to the mirror and point at it, yelling, "You're a stupid blundering fool, and I told you so many years ago! Not only that but you're as ugly as a molting moose!" Once I finally calm down in a couple of days I walk to the store and buy myself 6 O Henry bars and eat them on the way home.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

I am honestly interested in other peoples understanding of all religions, and i do learn bits from every human being, i take what i see valuable to me, and leave the rest to them.

How do you know what's valuable to you?

(Don't know how to make this sound less argumentative.)

Do you think that you can fall into confirmation bias to were anything that challenges or is different from your beliefs would be left for things that you maybe agree with or less argumentative?

 

[Nakosis]

I have to take this opportunity of a OP due to something that happen in a different OP.
@Meandflower actually corrected me in my own belief from within sufism/islam about my understanding of who Jesus is seen as in Islam. First was a bit surprised that a non muslim corrected me on a kind of big issue in the faith i hold.

To me, until today Jesus was "only a Prophet" but being corrected it seems now that Jesus also has been called Messiah in the Quran (Messiah in arabic is المسيح المنتظر meaning The Messiah awaited. So yes it seems like i was wrong.

So to the title of the OP
How do you react if you are clearly corrected in your religious belief from a non believer or someone from a different faith than your own?

IMO, there is no right or wrong wrt religion. It is all personal interpretation. So if you like someone else's personal interpretation better than your own go ahead and adopt it for yourself.
If you don't, don't. Religious is personal and ultimately is about what you feel comfortable with.

 

[Jainarayan]

How do you react if you are clearly corrected in your religious belief from a non believer or someone from a different faith than your own?

It annoys the snot out of me. It’s not a matter of being corrected... I’ve taken advice and correction from other Hindus, which I appreciate. It becomes a leg lifting contest because the other person has just been shown that they don’t know what they’re talking about. Either the comments come from ignorance of it, arrogance, condescension or something like that. Whatever the reason, it’s annoying when a non-Hindu tries to tell me about Hinduism. I don’t take it well.

 

[Spirit of Light]

How do you know what's valuable to you?

(Don't know how to make this sound less argumentative.)

Do you think that you can fall into confirmation bias to were anything that challenges or is different from your beliefs would be left for things that you maybe agree with or less argumentative?

I do not have a wish to go in to argumentative debate, i think kind discussion of topics are better for learning.

The kind of i know better than you form of debate is not for me anymore

 

[syo]

There are no beliefs in religion. We either know, or we don't know. The key is ''what''.