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Date: 5/22/2003 11:18:00 AM
From Authorid: 44960
Concerning religion; I am not a religious person and have no use for it. I been a victim of religion twice in my life and thats enough for anybody.  |
Date: 5/22/2003 1:23:00 PM
From Authorid: 61897
I believe we have One Creator, who created all of us and everything we know. That Jesus came to earth exactly how the Bible states and describes and for that purpose. I didn't believe that Jesus was who He said He was before, but since taking a chance and accepting Him, I KNOW He was and STILL IS. Ever since I've realized this, it has improved me, my life, my outlook, everything! I doubted and questioned (I still question, and doubts still creep for no reason I admit), but proof that everything the Bible states and promises ALWAYS prevail. I wouldn't feel so strongly and passionately about something that I wasn't absolutely sure about and proven to me PERSONALLY in my life. The manner in which I finally accepted the fact that Jesus IS our life changing Messiah is ttp://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm314463.html  |
Date: 5/22/2003 1:29:00 PM
From Authorid: 31673
Well, I'm a Mormon. I could write a whole novel as to what Mormons believe and why I have chosen to follow that religion. In a nutshell, it makes the most sense to me. I believe there is a god; for I cannot make sense of the complexities of this life occurring by chance over millions of years of evolution. And I've experienced too many miraculous coincidences in my life to believe it is all just by chance. I believe God has a son, and that they are one in purpose, but separate in personage. My mind just can't understand the idea that Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit are all one. Why would Jesus pray to himself in the Garden of Gethsemane? Ask himself to let the cup pass? I don't believe that a just God would hold me responsible for what Adam and Eve did in the garden, so I can't accept the notion of "original sin" or that babies have to be baptised. It makes sense to me that we lived before we came here, that there is a purpose to this life and that we are going someplace after this earthly experience. And that the things we do while we're here have an impact on our experience after death. I don't believe that we just float on a cloud with a harp after it is over, and it doesn't make sense to me that we are here by chance and that when we die we just cease to exist. There have been too many evidences in my personal life to suggest that there is life after death. But none of the other religions I have studied has offered an explanation for what life is about and what we do after we die, at least not one that adequately answers my questions and makes sense in my head. I believe that there are so many ways to interpret the bible, that a truly just and loving God MUST provide some way for us to know what is correct. He must give someone on this earth the ability and the authority to interpret his word correctly. In biblical times, he used prophets and apostles, and it makes sense to me that he continues to do so. I could go on and on. I know a lot of people on this site don't like Mormons/Mormonism, and will say that I believe in false doctrine and will go to hell. Maybe so. I don't expect anyone else to believe what I do. I'm just a girl who is trying to make sense of this thing we call life. The doctrines of the Mormon church make the most sense to me.  |
Date: 5/22/2003 5:56:00 PM
From Authorid: 60018
I believe that there are such things as past lives and that each soul is trying to reach as close to perfect as they can get. Basically I don't believe/disbelieve anything but I don't worship anything either.  |
Date: 5/22/2003 6:06:00 PM
From Authorid: 55903
I don't have a set religion. I don't believe in 'one supreme god'. As for the creation of man...I lean more toward the genetic manipulation by some 'other' theories. I don't believe in heaven or hell as divine places of reward or punishment. I do believe that when we die, it is only the physical body that is lost forever. I imagine the spirit as transmigrating into another plane of existance. I was raised attending the Southern Baptist Church. When they told us we should read the Bible in its entirety, I did. There are so many discrepancies, I thought there had to be something else. I have read the religious manuscripts from many other religions (read MOST other religions) and still seemed to have gaping holes in all of them. Now I just sort of have developed my own beliefs with which I am happy and feel satisfied. I believe in human morality and human evil. Not gods and demons waiting around every corner to help or hinder us in our journey through life.  |
Date: 5/22/2003 9:52:00 PM
From Authorid: 15070
I think if you read the posts of old-time USM'ers, you will find our WHOLE biographies, complete with details of our religous bends. If you want to ask particular people, yu could message them. BTW-why do you ask? are you shopping for a religion? Just wondering........~Peace~  |
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Date: 5/22/2003 10:45:00 PM
From Authorid: 12341
I have no "religion" but I live by these words. It is better to live my life as if there are no Gods, and try to make the world a better place for your being in it. If there is no God, I have lost nothing and will be remembered fondly by those you left behind. If there is a benevolent God, He will judge me on my merits and not just on whether or not I believed in Him. What greater goal would the Creator have? Religion has many names, too many.  |
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Date: 5/22/2003 10:46:00 PM
From Authorid: 12341
I am sorry, I meant to write, that "I" leave behind. |
Date: 5/23/2003 7:07:00 AM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 61999
I ask because I'm inquisitive. I ask because I'm nosey, lol. I ask because I'm a writer and a story teller by my own right and love to be inspired. I also am asking because I am returning to my faith and I wondered what made others choose theirs (or NOT choose). I think these are very good reasons for what you guys believe, and in a sec, I will post an answer to my own query, just so it's fair...~~The Mighty DreamGyrl~~  |
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Date: 5/23/2003 7:41:00 AM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 61999
I am a Christian, or a Messianic Jew. I don’t like to put labels on what I believe, so I do not choose a denomination. I believe in God (the Messianic view believes that I should call him Yahweh, but I don’t call my dad Rolando so I don’t see calling God by His first name, lol). I believe in His son Jesus Christ (again, Messianic view states that the name “Jesus” is Greek and The Messiah was a Jew and so they prefer to call him Yeshua, or something to that effect). I believe in the Holy Spirit. The doctrine I follow doesn’t believe that babies need to be baptized either; they think it’s a choice each person must make for themselves. I believe many different things about the afterlife, things which being a usual Christian (like Baptist) denies and so this is where things begin to differ for me. I believe in human reincarnation (meaning one returns to life as a HUMAN, not a cow or a cockroach). I believe in the spirit world (in fact The Bible mentions such things). I believe there ARE people who have psychic abilities and I don’t look at it as some curse. I believe that God is like a parent, and I look at things from that perspective. I don’t worship Mary because she was just a vessel and no one can tell me that a married woman stayed a virgin her entire life after she had one son (and The Bible negates that, too; it says Jesus had brothers). I believe before you choose a religion you should research it and read on it, make sure you know what you’re representing. I believe Satan is real because there is no Good without Evil. I believe that God created us because we are so detailed – even down to cell makeup – that we are like diamonds and diamonds are not easy to make. I believe everything happens for a reason and I believe that we all have a plan in life that we must eventually follow. I don’t think anything is coincidence. I take the book of Revelations literally and I take the Gospel literally. I think that’s it for now. Yes, this topic DOES get long, doesn’t it?! LoL ~~The Mighty DreamGyrl~~ |
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Date: 5/23/2003 9:54:00 AM
From Authorid: 61897
Do you believe in reincarnation by your own belief or because of something you feel is biblically-backed? |
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Date: 5/27/2003 11:55:00 AM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 61999
61897 -- I believe it's biblically backed but alot of people don't want to acknowledge it. There are passages in the Bible that end with "...in this age, as well as the next age" or something to that effect. What "Next age"? There's something there. Also, I think it's Saul who contacts the spirit of Samuel the Prophet, using a known witch, in 2nd Samuel somewhere. Or maybe it's First Kings, I can't remember. But he does it so you have to ask where Samuel's spirit was for him to be able to contact it. ~~The Mighty DreamGyrl~~ |
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Date: 5/27/2003 2:33:00 PM
From Authorid: 61897
Is it Matthew 12:32? Matthew 12:32- Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.-I believe this passage is speaking of the new Jerusalem, the world to come, the kingdom that is promised to God's people where we will reside with our Saviour Jesus for all eternity.-Revelation 3:12 Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name. Revelation 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. |
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Date: 5/27/2003 2:35:00 PM
From Authorid: 61897
Now the mention about Samuel is pretty hazy to me, I'll have to research that and get back to you=) |
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Date: 5/28/2003 6:45:00 AM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 61999
Found it for you, Chi-Girl!! It's the "Saul and the Witch of Endor" Story, 1st Samuel 28. Verses 11-19. Saul consults the spirit of Samuel thru the Witch of Endor. The spirit of Samuel asks Saul "Why'd you wake me up?" more or less. Then he gives Saul all this bad news and Saul is depressed. ~~The Mighty DreamGyrl~~ |
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Date: 5/28/2003 7:29:00 AM
From Authorid: 61897
Thanks=) |
Date: 6/6/2003 9:34:00 PM
From Authorid: 21132
Samuel's spirit was a demon and Samuel went to far by not trusting in God , that's why God gave the kingdom to David, King David   |
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Date: 6/12/2003 7:51:00 AM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 61999
That Samuel was tortured by demons is true, although I do not see where his spirit was an actual demon. Sure, he didn't trust in God but he's not a DEMON. There are many people that don't trust in God but I don't call them possessed. And, either way, Samuel went looking for Saul's ghost and he found it, which confirms whatever I was trying to show Chi-Girl, anyway. ~~The Mighty DreamGyrl~~ |
Date: 6/21/2003 10:39:00 AM
From Authorid: 11097
I have choosen to follow the faith of God and Jesus. When I was ten years old I had a dream about heaven and I met Jesus, He spoke to me and invited me to stay with him and my mother (this was after my mother passed away to cancer) I accepted until I looked down on earth and seen my little brother and father, and decided to come back, because I loved them to much to leave them. That experience greatly influenced why I have choosen my faith. It feels right to me, I believe it to be the truth. I believe in the power of love, and that we were all saved by that force. I believe there is good in everyone and that we must accept people for who they are and learn from them. I believe everyone ha s a mission here on earth and in the heavens. I believe in the power of the angels and the "unknown" I believe there is a devil and evil within this world, and a struggle everyday between good and evil. I also believe in the power of prayer and trust in faith. xoxo  |
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Date: 6/27/2003 11:49:00 AM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 61999
Thanks, PoL. Very intriguing. ~~The Mighty DreamGyrl~~ |
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