How certain are you that your version of the “truth” (truth of god, religion, the world, the universe, etc) is the correct one, and more importantly, how do you know what that “truth” is?
Hello Rodibidably,
I actually read your full post this time and have attempted to answer the question, so lets see if I like this answer enough that I will post it to both your site and my own.
As a man that is continuing to ask the very same question you are asking many people, I can honestly answer that I have believed in God from my earliest days. I was never pushed into religion by my parents because both sides of my family come from deeply devout ancestors that were integral to their religious organizations. From a very early age I took myself to the church of the road and was in search of the reason my devotion to a entity that made no sense to me or others. I have read the Christian holy book, the “Bible” while listening to countless religious leaders insight their congregation to one frenzied point or another, but in each and every case, I never found a Christian Religious Organization that spoke to me or explained the Bible in a way that I knew in my heart and in my soul was correct.
It is such an issue that for years I thought I lost my religion and my faith in God, but deep within my soul I never gave up on God, just on modern day religious organizations that taught their followers that the Bible means X or it absolutely tells us that Y is not to be believed. When Christian leaders stand on a pulpit and strongly demand Z, I started questioning their motives, but then I saw their motives as if a light from heaven shown true guidance on the motivation behind teaching anything but love, honor and respect to their congregations….money. While in almost every country religious organizations are kept from public scrutiny by not demanding they open their financial books for all who wish to see what they do and how they do it. Regardless of the political freedoms religious organizations have, organized religion is the greatest money maker in the world. Religious leaders have also taken marketing 101 classes and through centuries of scientifically proven results, fear does the best job at increasing the number of followers and in sighting those followers to give more money than anything.
Because of these and many other reasons, I’ve yet to find a Christian organization that I go too to confirm or define my beliefs. I too have been asking this very question and because, I am researching all other religious beliefs in hopes that I can find just one religious organization or structure that teach Love, Honor & Respect to everyone from everyone, always.
You might think with everything I’ve written, how can I say I believe in God? Well, he created me in his image and I know that with every ounce of my being. While I question many things in my life, my faith in God is not one of them. Faith is believing in that which does not make sense.
It answers your question and yet it does not. I have faith in God and that is not under question. Everything else may be, but not that!
Your Humble Servant – Todd M. Dobson
