The difficult thing for me in dealing with religion is that I don’t understand why people believe it in the first place. To me, it doesn’t make sense to believe something that seems so completely unsupported. However, I’m willing to accept that there’s something I’m missing — some personal experience, representative of theistic reality or not — that justifies the belief system.
So I have a few questions, that I hope that readers of faith will post answers to, assuming I have not chased them all away. Here are the questions:
- What made you choose your specific fath, and, if applicable, denomination?
- How do you know that God exists in general?
- What first-hand experiences have you had that confirm the existence of your specific God to you? (ie. a feeling, Jesus voice in your head, etc.)
- How do you choose which parts of your holy books should be taken literally? If it’s not all of them, how do you decide how to interpret or ignore the rest?
- How are you sure that your specific faith and denomination are the “correct” one? If not, how do you reconcile that?
I’d really appreciate answers in the attached forum. The more you can be specific and verbose the better. Atheists, please don’t answer, and I’d appreciate it if the answers were not debated or picked apart here because it’ll distract from what this post is about. Thanks. Oh, and feel free to post anonymously.
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