What Draws You To Your Faith?
43 RESPONSES // asked by CSW - around 1 month ago
The faith that stands on authority is not faith. // Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's a million different ways to believe. Why did you end up believing in the way that you do?
What Draws You To Your Faith?
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My dad is a pastor so I have grown up in a family with a strong faith. This made me have the strong faith I have today. Everyday it continues to grow stronger.
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The need to have a feeling of security, to have something to fall back on which will always be there no matter what happens in life. I have found this to be unfulfilled by anything in my life so far but faith. Also, I have a desire to feel that my life has a purpose and that it is not simply the product of chance, and therefore without a designed purpose.
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Because I believe a just God who spread the truth around the world by sending multiple prophets, (Jesus, Muhammad, and more) not just one group. I believe there's a little truth to everything! So I believe everyone is about half right in what they believe and half wrong.
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I have found God. And I am blessed and filled with his grace so everyday I live life to the fullest and thank him, that's what draws me to him.
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Books with ribbons, rose petals, the saints: kooky folks just like us, incense, relics, forgiveness, love, mercy, grace.
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I am drawn to faith because I have a desperate need to feel that my life is more important than to be simply a mobile lump of clay on this giant rock.
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I believe money is a answer to problems, but not a cure. I believe God is a answer to problems, but not a cure.
I believe money is a answer to problems, but not a cure. I believe God is a answer to problems, but not a cure.
" The man who once asked all the questions is now the man who has all the answers "
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because I had christianity as the only basis of faith around my whole belief system. I was raised to think other religions were wrong, but around fifteen, I started reading up on the different religions of the world and realized they center around certain characteristics, so I think those universal standards constitute their own religion
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Love and Hope :D Gotta have both
Love and Hope :D Gotta have both
I started life as a Pentecostal Christian...then drifted away to Eastern Philosophies (ping ponging around) then went back to a nondemoninational Protestantism ...back to an earth religion/Wicca and about 10 years ago after meeting some Real Deal Christians - not the judgmental kind but the loving ones - returned to a faith in Christ. Now I'm going to the Episcopal Church which stands on faith, tradition, and REASON...you're allowed - ENCOURAGED - to think and ask questions.
But that's way off topic now...bottom line, it was the LOVE that drew me back. The love of a God who would make Himself small enough to be one of us and let us mortals murder Him then go one step more and forgive us all. A God of forgiveness and tolerance and unconditional love...oh yeah, and HOPE. :D
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I saw this question the other day and began to write something, but realized there was and is many layers to this question for me, it's like peeling an onion. I think back to my childhood, my parents were and are Bahai's it was during the late 60's, the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam. I recall meeting people and listening to people who were passionate and excited about the possabilities, optomistic, not pessimistic. I saw adults participate in areas that were beyond their radius, I witnessed faith as a child, faith and action combined. I remember listening to people who came up from the south, having participated in the freedom rides. Children I believe are more in touch with their emotions, so when they sense that in adults, it resonates with them. As the years have gone by, as a young woman barely 20, I was confronted with a situation, somewhat like selling my soul, a decision I had to make, I decided nothing was worth selling my soul for, but that meant I had to get in touch with my soul. I was in Paris, driving away from a situation and I heard a voice, it said, don't worry, it'll happen! The one and only time I've heard a voice, thank god, I can appreciate those that hear voices and how it messes them up. That voice, those words helped me, gave me faith, I of course decided what that meant, today I'm not sure what's supposed to happen, I guess life. Then when life did happen, I found myself in London, visitiing the grave of Shogi Affendi, a place I had been as a child with my parents. I approached his grave and started to sob, I prayed that a child I had been involved with, but with no rights, that she would be alright and would grow into the person she was meant to be, I had to really find faith through love. I choose to believe, I choose to have faith and maybe that voice didn't say, don't worry, it'll happen, maybe it said, don't worry, be happy!
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Believing that man, is a sacred thing put on this world for a reason. Accepting that for it's fullness and realness.
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Someone I trust taught me that faith is the accumulation of experiences with truth and the ineffable. The more I experience in life the more complete my faith becomes as I learn slivers of the workings of the universe and glimpse truths of reality. Those moments of elation and clarity that come from an epiphany are the fruition of our human curiosity and the moments that expand our faith. The imaginary walls that we construct between denominations, creeds, doctrines and beliefs keep us from learning the faith experience of another person and give us the illusion that our faith is superior. Reality and god being such expansive concepts that we could never fully understand or describe, wouldn't we be better off collecting the faith of everyone we meet and piecing those splinters together for a more complete picture?
Someone I trust taught me that faith is the accumulation of experiences with truth and the ineffable. The more I experience in life the more complete my faith becomes as I learn slivers of the workings of the universe and glimpse truths of reality. Those moments of elation and clarity that come from an epiphany are the fruition of our human curiosity and the moments that expand our faith. The imaginary walls that we construct between denominations, creeds, doctrines and beliefs keep us from learning the faith experience of another person and give us the illusion that our faith is superior. Reality and god being such expansive concepts that we could never fully understand or describe, wouldn't we be better off collecting the faith of everyone we meet and piecing those splinters together for a more complete picture?
I am drawn to my faith as I am drawn to others faith with the goal of discovering what really does matter in these brief lives of ours.
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It's really only familiarity that draws me to my faith. I grew up a Catholic, spent years looking for something better or nothing at all. When my second group of kids was born, I wanted them to have a grounding in religion, so Catholicism was it. That said, I think all religions believe basically the same thing. My oldest son, who was not raised in any religion, married a Jewish woman so now he's a converted Jew. And my grandson is Jewish. I have no problem with that. We're all in the same boat and religions serve the same purpose. If people could just see through all the garbage, we'd all be better off dedicated ourselves to God.
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