Ok i accidentally walked into a bible study group here on campus thinking it was something else. I listened to them and had questions on what they talked about in the meeting, very open mindedly tho. Now it was just a bunch of people reading passages from the Christian bible and they share all these different kinds of meanings from something that seems to have no more than one obvious meaning.

Now there are many reasons why people are religious. But what makes you religious (if you are)? In that study group they speak of how people are not perfect, everyone sins, but religion is suppose to help you always choose the good over bad. Now why would you need to Love Jesus to do good things? I can understand the "love" you have for Jesus (They consider him a god) is a way to show that if you have love for jesus you can love others. I dunno but i find it a little odd.

and another thing that really bothers me is that they use prayer as a primary means to solving their problems in many ways. I think prayer is a secondary reason and your choices/actions should be primary. maybe someone can share some insight (being OPEN MINDED) on the matter.

a last thing i noticed is that religious people hate when you question anything against their faith. They take it as it is no questions..

I find when you talk to people about religion .. their belief is strong and their thinking
is that they are absolutely right .. regardless of the scientific proof available.

After having said that, here is my belief
I believe in God cuz of the things I find in me and not outside of myself.
There is more to me than a few dollars worth of chemicals and water.
The whole being greater than the sum of the parts.
Of course, the universe reflexs this same thing.
It as a whole is more than a sum of its parts.

I use meditation and prayer not to solve my problems
But, to enrich my spiritual life.
Praying for a miracle or answers is not what prayer was meant for ...
It is a tool for helping yourself find your center and move on to your spirit.
Meditation is also for calming the mind and letting your consciousness
become more aware of the temple you live in.

Now, sounding like a nut or someone on psychotropic acid,
faith is a wonderful thing .. it will make people do stuff that would make no sense otherwise.
Whether or not there is a God or not.
I make my choices and validate them as I live my life.
Look at all the beautiful colors .. they sort'a streaming.

Everyone has faith, if not in an entity then themselves or some spiritualistic effect; i.e. Karma.

I am agnostic currently, borderline atheist. I still find myself throwing prayers to 'something' unconsciously sometimes. I believe in the need to keep ones faith and moral up in order to cope or for self-beneficial reasons. To enhance the living experience. I don't fault anyone for their beliefs regardless of my opinions on it, just don't expect me to agree or convert.

i believe because i believe ,,, hmmm


if i dont have any sense of believe maybe id always afraid in my entire life.

Usually people who get upset when you question their religion is because they don't have enough knowledge to answer your questions.

I am a Christian and I don't think a Christian should ever get upset over someone who is truly trying to learn. If I don't have the answer, I just say I don't know and then I try to find out what the answer is. No point getting upset, it just makes us look bad when we are supposed to be Christ like. I do make mistakes from time to time and get upset but I try not to.

If you have a specific question you can ask but I may not know the answer and I may have to get back to you on it but I will get back to you. Just know I am an ordinary guy and not trained in theology.

They all did'nt start out religious,
they love Jesus because he loves us . Loves us so much he chose to die for us to save us.

We all are spiritual and invite good and bad energies , spirits around us all the time, we are surrounded by good and bad spirits and they want to win our souls and are at war over us.So we praise him to call for his love , wisdom , blessings to come into our lives, because when we praise him, the bad spirits tremble, get mad, run away . They may come back if we dont continue , we can always come back also to Jesus he takes us back.

We praise him to help us turn from our sins, some of us are still in sin or all of us , but having a relationship with Jesus in prayer, talking to him like you would a best friend, he really does help you.

Many christians have experienced maricoles, or have heard Jesus speak to them, not all are big maricles, I personally have recieved answers after praying, not all the time but once I was looking at the wall and felt like as I told him in my prayer I feel like Im talking to the wall,I I said ok God I want to know more about you so Im going to read the Bible from beginning to end but it could take a long time and in the car with my mom I was questioning about this 1 verse in Revelation where it says The new Jeruselum will come in the sky, I thought it was bizar and couldnt picture it,just a question I had, small one, but when I went to church , a new preacher was there and the funny thing is, he started his sermon out answering my direct questions I had in my prayers, he said " Im going to read the Bible to you and Im going to read it in 5 mins front to back, you want to know God more? " And as he went on he quikly went thru the times from beginning to end about Gods love , saying he loves you and when you feel like your talking to the wall, he hears you, he said . Then he ended his sermon by saying " oh and by the way" The New Jeruselum in the sky is Jesus. He answered all my questions, God used him to speak to me, he does this we just need to listen if we want to hear him,

We get to know him when we seak him.He speaks to us thru many things or people, can speak to us thru different ways.

I hope I helped there's many things I could say, hope I picked the right ones.

Fixed that for you.

Religious folk with good hearts and minds are usually more than welcome to let you bounce ideas off of them and share their ideas and experiences.

man you always have good posts