What is your religion and why?

I have good values and good principles, but I don't have a religion on which I get to believe in something imaginary like (god, prophets, and ...whatever). no I don't believe in that.

Deist. I don't believe any religion has it right but I do believe in a God.. as an example of a the way I think about this I would ask someone if they believe Mother Teresa and Ghandi both went to heaven.. if so then how can one religion be correct... and if not.. would you really want to go to a heaven where one of those two couldn't get in? As far as why I believe there is a God.. what was there when there was nothing? since time is infinite in both directions what was there before the big bang? and after the big bang.. during the formation of our solar system.. if one subatomic particle would have smashed/not smashed into something exactly like it did.. it could have changed everything.. it might have altered the collision that formed our moon.. or wiped out the dinosaurs.. or the creation of our sun for that matter.. in a universe of infinite possibilities you need probability to guide the infinite to actualization.. God is that guiding hand.

This dialogue could go on for a while...I'll try to keep it short. You're going one of three places depending on how you believe...1. A level of Heaven 2. Heaven or Hell 3. Neither. I go with Christianity. I believe closely with #2 because God created everything. Basically, you believe that principle or you don't. If you do, that means that the Bible is true and it mentions both places. Since I believe God created everything and the Bible is true, I choose to persue God's prinicples 100%. Am I perfect? No.

I would say on your secondary question, seeing and believing. I believe it because I choose to believe 100% (all or nothing at all). Seeing the way things work around me (the body, seasons, the wind) help point to a creation having a creator. We didn't evolve. We were made.

Nearly everyone's religion has nothing at all to do with the religion but rather is based on where that person was born. The same people who are Christians in the US would have been Muslims if they had been born in the middle east or Buddists if the had been born in southeast asia, or Hindu if the had been born in India and so on. One's religion is primarily an accident of birth.

i agree with the guy above me.im a christian, and im proud of it! to put it simply and not in the 'religious' way or to preach to you, its because i no that there has to be something more, something more than THIS. and to me, evolution may exist, but not w/o God. i mean, really, you cant have science with out God. it just doesnt happen. anyways, thats just mi opinion. im not like one of those highly religious ppl who thinks christianity is the only religion and everyone else is going to hell and that scientists are demons. mainly, i believe that as long as you believe in something, you'll be fine. like, i think im going to heaven, but i also think that any buddists or hindus or jews or islams wjill also reincarnate, or go to nirvana, or whatever it is they believe in. not just one religion is right. and to the the scientist thing, i used to want to be a scientist when i got older, i just think that to have it, there must be a greater force.

and here's a question for all the atheists out there: what do you think happens after you die? what, do u think u just explode or rot in the ground. cuz if u belive in reincarnation, well, then ur at least spiritual. i mean, what happens to your soul? mi point is that we arent going to just die on earth and not go anywhere, there has to be something bigger than this. ill stop mi rants, cuz i could go on forever!

Fundamental Christian...

and you are right "knowing" is the thing and we believe by faith and witness.Faith is the evidence of things unseen and hoped for. Knowing God is the important thing.You have to "be" something to experience it....I know God thru my inital faith and then thru His workings in my life.Evidence of Him in the world, guidance,and help.He isn't inactive to me.

"Religion" is man made as to why it has been abused thru the years.Men have used it for their own motives.This is abuse."Salvation" comes from God.

There are also "cults"...that take one verse that their doctrine hinges on....or they change every few years in what they say.

God is the creator. (You know this.)

There is right and wrong....you know that.

You also know that we have all done wrong .

We need to ask for forgiveness, spiritual guidance and a new direction...to live a life that is right.Ask to be a child of God.Live to represent Him well.

We need to ask forgiveness when we fail thru omission (not doing things we should) or comission (knowing better and doing it).Because we will still do wrong things i life.We however try not to do the really terrible ones....murder,rape,and so forth.Which a true Christian ,I don't think would have in his heart anyway or know better.

"Prove all things..hold fast that which is good".

Might be a reason why you question somethings.

"Study to show yourself approved".

"Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling."

ASk the Holy Spirit for guidance if you truly want it. He will teach thru any study or what someone says.

Myself.....I use the KIng James version of the Bible....

It is a road map for living.....only teaching us things that better our life.

It is a text for living a better life.

In it are the answers.

You don't have to go thru anyone to pray or learn.....and to redirect your life.....except GOD.....not a person here on earth.

You don't have to pay anyone either.

You pray to God and ask Him.

no not necess. I am a christian and I believe because of what I feel God has done for me. I try not to think about oh I should be able to see him therefore religion is real nope. I was baptized Anglican but now I have gone to a variety of churches now I go to a church with no ties.

I am a Deist, because although I believe in God, I don't believe that I should be forced to worship Him/Her/It in a way that is dictated to me by someone else. Also, being a Deist doesn't force me to disregard scientific evidence that would possibly run counter to something that was written over 2,000 years ago. Regardless of what some people would like to think, I believe that Darwin was right, and I don't think that his theories in any way prove that there isn't a God.

I'm with you brother! Lance Armstrong says he became an atheist after Nike ask him to talk to the firemen at ground zero. He couldn't believe a god would allow this to happen.

I'm a "casual" Christian.

I respect other religions and I expect my opinion to be respected. I believe in God although I have not physically seen Him, I have seen what faith can do, in my life and in other's lives. I don't go around judging people though or telling people that they are going to hell or something. I also don't go to church. I don't believe in that.

Im studying to be a Jehovahs Witness...reason is that this is the only religion I have found that actually follows everything in the bible & lives their lives accordingly to what God says. They dont add or delete anything. They dont do half of what it says & not the other half because its too hard. They stand firm to their beliefs. Theres no misinterpretation with them.