Because the bible, God, Jesus and the church are not my thing. By avaoiding them it gives them more time to reach out to someone else.
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I should clarify. I avoid them when they are walking around the neighborhoods witnessing to people. I do not avoid them as people. In fact I have a friend who is a witness and I even have a couple friends who are Mormon.
Welcome aboard 
I think it is because of the intent behind following a faith. When one wants to find a faith that meets their preferences only, they usually end up in confusion and doubt. I knew some who changed beliefs more than once because of that. If you talk to them, you find them sound attached to their current belief, but they still change it later.
Personally, the more I grow up the more I become attached to my current and only belief I had, and believe in it more.
My advice is to look for a belief for a truth more, not only for preferences. You could be doing this already, but I thought I could say it just in case.
I think it is because of the intent behind following a faith. When one wants to find a faith that meets their preferences only, they usually end up in confusion and doubt. I knew some who changed beliefs more than once because of that. If you talk to them, you find them sound attached to their current belief, but they still change it later.
Personally, the more I grow up the more I become attached to my current and only belief I had, and believe in it more.
My advice is to look for a belief for a truth more, not only for preferences. You could be doing this already, but I thought I could say it just in case.
Thank you Smart_Guy.Welcome aboard
I think it is because of the intent behind following a faith. When one wants to find a faith that meets their preferences only, they usually end up in confusion and doubt. I knew some who changed beliefs more than once because of that. If you talk to them, you find them sound attached to their current belief, but they still change it later.
Personally, the more I grow up the more I become attached to my current and only belief I had, and believe in it more.
My advice is to look for a belief for a truth more, not only for preferences. You could be doing this already, but I thought I could say it just in case.
Looking for a truth is what I am looking for. So far I have found there are aspects of both Buddhism and Taoism that draw me in wanting to know more.
A way of life not just a book to be read, songs to sing, holidays and gods/goddesses to celebrate on special days.
Welcome to ReligiousForums. I hope I'm not late with my reply & that you're still active on this forum.
Well, I'm pretty sure you'll never be 100% fine with any teachings regarding religions, there's always something you just won't agree with. I never met anyone who agreed with religious teachings 100%, after all such things hold hard questions which answers depend on who you ask for sure.
I, as you do believe everything is energy, even us humans but we part on positive-negative view, for me there's just that general energy that makes things go around. That energy I believe is/comes from God. But I don't bother much with those things since they aren't my main focus at the moment. If you're interested in Buddhism you should join your local community and talk with them, you can (at least in Zagreb) attend meditation classes and philosophical seminars if you're not interested in taking it as your religion but more as "life-style". I don't know much about general Buddhism, but I've read a lot about Tibetan Buddhism.
What I'd like to recommend you is to be open minded and look around you, attend every possible religious community you're attracted to (at least a little). I myself attended Catholic masses, Orthodox, Baptist, even been on Shabbat services and with "Tibetan" meditation. It surely is time consuming but I enjoyed it and it helped me see what makes most sense to me. I'm not sure where you're from, but please even give a chance to Islam - attend a mosque if you can and see what your heart says.
I wish you all the best! And I hope I made sense with this reply at lest a little.
I have picked up several books on Buddhism & Taoism from the store just yesterday and plan to start with reading them. Once my schedule at work is not as chaotic and I have set days off again I will be able to look into local community gatherings to talk to people who have been practicing these philosophies longer.
That's a good start. I think there's even a webpage providing free PDF on specific topics from Buddhist view. The files are not copyrighted so it's all legal. I'll try and dig up the site if you're interested, but I don't promise I'll find it 100% - it was long ago when I read on that topic.
Any help would be wonderful. If you don't find it I appreciate the thought of it. One of the books I got was one recommended by a forum member on another thread I found.That's a good start. I think there's even a webpage providing free PDF on specific topics from Buddhist view. The files are not copyrighted so it's all legal. I'll try and dig up the site if you're interested, but I don't promise I'll find it 100% - it was long ago when I read on that topic.
natasha levchenko
Member
you are so kind)it takes all sorts to make the world.) why do you say"......are not my thing"?
Knight of Albion
Well-Known Member
A very warm welcome to the forum, dear Amber
It appears to me as though many people are seeking to find a religion that fits themselves and their own wants and needs....but isn't it better to find a faith that fulfills what God says he requires of us? 
If life is conditional, which I believe it was from the beginning, then obedience to God's reasonable commands is essential. Looking for a belief system that merely satisfied ones own desires is a little pointless if it fails to please the one who has our future in his hands.
Just my 2 cents worth.
If life is conditional, which I believe it was from the beginning, then obedience to God's reasonable commands is essential. Looking for a belief system that merely satisfied ones own desires is a little pointless if it fails to please the one who has our future in his hands.
Just my 2 cents worth.
natasha levchenko
Member
It appears to me as though many people are seeking to find a religion that fits themselves and their own wants and needs....but isn't it better to find a faith that fulfills what God says he requires of us?
If life is conditional, which I believe it was from the beginning, then obedience to God's reasonable commands is essential. Looking for a belief system that merely satisfied ones own desires is a little pointless if it fails to please the one who has our future in his hands.
Just my 2 cents worth.
i share your ideas.sometimes people want to find a religion designed to persuade a select audience to act or believe in a certain manner,one advantageous to themselves.
God's word is the truth ,presenting things the way as they really are,revealing God's attributes,purposes ,and commands,as well as the true state of affairs among mankind.those who desire to gain God's approval should walk in his truth.that is the way I see)))
Terrywoodenpic
Oldest Heretic
Welcome.
many people are so tied into the framework and day to day life of their religion that that they are afraid to even try to think for them selves. However in the quiet of our own thought we find ourselves led to consider spiritual things.
This tug of spirituality happens even if we reject near everything we have been taught.
This comfort and guidance is for many attributed to the Holy Spirit, by others, to God, or what ever deity they know.
In my case I have rejected much of the unnecessary dead weight of my religion and am happy to be thought a heretic.
Christianity "light" is for me a far happier home, with almost nothing between me and the Holy Spirit except my "own" Sin and weakness.
This is a much more sure starting place.
many people are so tied into the framework and day to day life of their religion that that they are afraid to even try to think for them selves. However in the quiet of our own thought we find ourselves led to consider spiritual things.
This tug of spirituality happens even if we reject near everything we have been taught.
This comfort and guidance is for many attributed to the Holy Spirit, by others, to God, or what ever deity they know.
In my case I have rejected much of the unnecessary dead weight of my religion and am happy to be thought a heretic.
Christianity "light" is for me a far happier home, with almost nothing between me and the Holy Spirit except my "own" Sin and weakness.
This is a much more sure starting place.
Greetings, & a very bacony welcome!
