Do you have 100% Belief in Your Religion?

Is there a difference between believing 100% and convincing oneself that you believe 100%? Within my faith and various other Eastern Dharmic paths, you have to attain a certain non-dual non-experience, in order to realise truth, called by various names. So only those few rare souls beyond that non-experience know 100%. The rest of us may think we do, say we do, and all that, but we don't.

Vinayaka said:

Is there a difference between believing 100% and convincing oneself that you believe 100%? Within my faith and various other Eastern Dharmic paths, you have to attain a certain non-dual non-experience, in order to realise truth, called by various names. So only those few rare souls beyond that non-experience know 100%. The rest of us may think we do, say we do, and all that, but we don't.

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Yeah. Nicely put.

eselam said:

Where, can I see?

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Classical Judaism teaches that there will be no prophet greater than Moses

Other religious traditions have used this or similar terms. Mani, founder of the Persian faith Manichaeism, also claimed to be the Seal of the Prophets and the last prophet.

Mahavira is also claimed to be the last prophet in a series of 24 Tirthankars.

Thats what I could quickly come up with in a 5 second google search. I'm sure there would be many more claims if I bothered to search harder....

Vinayaka said:

Is there a difference between believing 100% and convincing oneself that you believe 100%? Within my faith and various other Eastern Dharmic paths, you have to attain a certain non-dual non-experience, in order to realise truth, called by various names. So only those few rare souls beyond that non-experience know 100%. The rest of us may think we do, say we do, and all that, but we don't.

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I find that experience was the only way for me to know for sure (and the experience was not intentional any of the times). Most people don't get the opportunity to experience what I have (probably a good thing as it messes you up pretty good the first time)

Vultar said:

Classical Judaism teaches that there will be no prophet greater than Moses

Other religious traditions have used this or similar terms. Mani, founder of the Persian faith Manichaeism, also claimed to be the Seal of the Prophets and the last prophet.

Mahavira is also claimed to be the last prophet in a series of 24 Tirthankars.

Thats what I could quickly come up with in a 5 second google search. I'm sure there would be many more claims if I bothered to search harder....

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But those who claimed that they were also the last prophet.

Do they have many followers today ?
What is their holy books ?
Do their religion make sense ?

The effect of Mohammed pbuh in the world can't be denied,similar thing to Jesus pbuh,
but what is the effect of such false people who claimed to be the last prophets.

Did they success ?

i believe 100% that no religion is true. im unsure about the existance of a god or gods, if one or many exist i believe it/he or they will never be known, and is/are beyond our understanding. the only possible reason i can see for life existing is simply to just experience it, everything else is completely unknowable to me regarding creation or afterlife. i must profess, many of these feelings are wishful thinking on my part, i mostly dont believe in any god or meaning, im mostly atheist in that regard but i like to entertain the possibility...
i respect everybodies choice to believe what they want though, as long as theyre not hurting anyone. being agnostic is the only way for me to feel like im being honest with myself

I don't know what I believe any more. I just know religion is too static and inflexible for me.

Vultar said:

I find that experience was the only way for me to know for sure (and the experience was not intentional any of the times). Most people don't get the opportunity to experience what I have (probably a good thing as it messes you up pretty good the first time)

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Every single person here has a unique set of experiences making them what they are today, none of them any more important or less important than the next guys.

adambaum said:

Do you believe in your religion 100% or do you still have doubts.

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This actually is a hard one to answer for me. I always say 900 million Hindus = 900 million opinions. I believe in what our scriptures tell us as truth; I believe in the Vedas; the Upanishads; the Bhagavad Gita. But I don't believe in many of the human rituals and beliefs; I'm only minimally ritualistic.

Religion after all should provide you with comfort.

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It does.