Quote (snoramej @ 30 Jun 2010 10:32)
Jesus Freaks
I have a question for you, please don't take this the "wrong way" just curious, not critisising or anything.
Here's my question;
What makes you believe? What makes you stick with what you believe in? What is the "pull" of your religion, so to say?
Regards, Johan
The first question is the hardest for me to answer. I think that everyone believes on some level wether they want to or not. Maybe not everyone believes that Christ is the son of God, but it seems very hard to truely deny that there is a God. Atheists claim to believe it, but then they work so hard to push their beliefs that it begins to contradict itself. If I don't believe in aliens, why would I go out of my way to alien and UFO conventions to try and make everyone there stop believing in them? I was studying biology in college, and I was never able to accept life without a creator.
As for what causes me to stick to it, that's much easier. It's hard to understand much about God at first, but once you do, it's too amazing to forget. I really have no choice but to keep believing, because I can't lie to myself about what I know.
I'm not really sure what a pull is, though. I've seen the cheap suits and big smiles on TV just like everyone else, and I hope I never come off like that to anyone. I think a lot of people are just following some sort of tradition, too. One thing that definately sets it apart is the belief that people are basically evil and that God redeems us, rather than the more common (and comforting) believe that people are basically good and being good earns a nice afterlife (or some reward). That's more a belief than a "religion" I suppose, but it is more about the former than the latter. Questions like this are very hard to answer on a blue and black virtual bulliten board.