Why do you believe there is a God? (Jesus Christ, doctrine)

[MaddLlama]

Originally Posted by Poster

Which only proves my point,
had the job been done properly in the first place they would not have converted, they would not have been given a choice, therfore someone or the system messed up.

So, then it's better to force your children to believe in everything you do and agree with you all the time, or else you're a bad parent and God will smite you?

[ALifetimeToWaitFor....]

I was raised in a Christian family. My parents forced me to go church, but never forced any religion on me. I dont know if any of you can relate. I was a devote Christian for the first 12 years of my life. I loved and still love Christ's message of love, compassion, and humility. At about that time I realized Christ wasn't God, he was a man, a great man, but a man. Everything Christ was any of can be and I found god somewhere else. god to me is found in every tree, every stream, every twinkle in a childs eye, he, she, it is found every where and any where. The every lasting conciousness that has always been cycling with the universe over and over again. He is what we return to after death because we are all apart of it "good" or "evil".

[BruceDLimber]

Greetings!

>Why do you believe there is a God?

From a combination of intuition, conviction, and certitude brought on by decades of prayer, reading, research, investigation, and observation!

Plus, perhaps, enough intelligence to recognize when I'm in a desireable situation....

Peace,

Bruce

[kerry]

Originally Posted by Poster

This is what I was trying to get at, everyone thinks they have the true religion, even had they been born on Mars they like to think they would have been able to seek out and find the religion they have now, deny everything they were taught to believe as children and convert to their true religion, (the one they have now)
they never seem to ask themselves why they don't seek out and find another religion, (perhaps the one they should have had) that could be the true religion.

I think I can understand where Poster is coming from, I asked a Muslim when he had decided to become a Muslim, he said he had decided when he was 16, I ask did he know about any other religions, he said no and that he had only ever been to the Mosque, he believed he had chosen to become a Muslim for himself, it had been his choice, this man honestly believed he had picked Islam because he had wanted to be a Muslim, when I said he could have been raised a Catholic, he said he would still have been a Muslim.
I just shook my head, how can you talk to people like that?

That is like thinking if you were born in Italy brought up an Italian speaking Catholic, you would still know about being a Muslim or an LDS and be able to speak English.