Do you believe your faith was forced on you from birth?
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No, I believe that Faith is a belief.  We are given the information, some more than others, if fortunate.  Then Everyone makes their own decisions.  Faith is a belief in something We can not see, but We Know Exists.  It is hard for Me to Believe that out of Everyone on this site, that No One has ever asked GOD for Help, and not witnessed it arrive very quickly?  I have never read of it.  I hope many, many have.\n\nGood Luck, and GOD Bless
688621
It kind of depends on what faith, if any, you have.  If you acquired faith where you had none before, you might start by describing yourself beforehand.  Likewise if the situation is reversed.
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Did something happen to make you believe in God?
1005014
You answered your own question but the point is well taken.  I have many friends that have told me that they don't understand how I can have so much "blind faith" (I love that term), and I usually tell them that I it took me much more "blind faith" to deny God for as many years as I did!  It's amazing how they all seem to think I'm the crazy one because I actually think somebody created me.  yet, they all believe their great grandparents are frogs! :)
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Yes.  I was in a...situation, where I was very suddenly, and I mean suddenly in great danger.  Danger so brutally terrible, that I had no time to think and very well could have died a terrible death and there was nothing I could do to prevent it.  I didn't consider myself a very religious person, but when the time came, I instinctively asked for Jesus to help me.  When I say instinctively, I mean it was like a reflex reaction.  Automatic, and natural.  Help was delivered.  I know many folks won't believe me, and that's ok.  It's an honest answer.  He's there, here, everywhere.  It's a great comfort to me.  It's changed my life, as you can imagine.
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Yes,oh yes, do you know that before you were born God beheld you in His heart,and that you sprang from this loving heart.\nHe called you by name and you came to be, you are Gods dream and He loves you to the point of distraction.\nYes I believe for He believed in me first,and has given me the greatest gift of all.that of His only Son,He could not have given me more than this, yes I believe for God is in our heart and delights in His dwelling place.\n\n our God reigns.
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I changed my faith to Hinduism from what I was brought up with, after YEARS of studying all I could about various religions, the Bible, and other Scriptures, ancient and world history, archaeology, etc.  I also "studied" myself.  I prayed a lot and came to understood that Hinduism is the religion of my soul, the religion I was when I was a child, before I was told what to believe.
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No. Maybe the "Christ of faith" was based upon a historical figure, I don't know, but he was no son of any god. The only document we have of him is either the bible or "church father" sources and I don't trust either. \nI used to be a believer, but not as of about 2003.
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yes, and the funny thing is, as said above, when faced with real history, if it dissagrees with their religion in the slightest, they automatically condemn you, or assume you have your fact wrong, then give you a million bible verses, as if that tells you anything confirming 0_o thing is though, religion shouldnt RULE your life. i think its increidibly important to BELEIVE something, just dont revolve your life around it. theres no one right or true religion. what if you live your life as one religion, die, and lets say you were one religion, and you get REBORN rather than going to heaven or hell, nirvana, purgatory, nothingness, what have you, or getting any type of closure, wouldnt you feel like you revolved your life on a lie??\ni say have spirituality. have faith in SOMETHING, ANYTHING. just dont make it your entire life.
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I welcome questions.  They make me think.  Thinking helps me to grow.  Sometimes I have even discovered that I could be *gulp*      wrong...fortunately, not often *whew*.\n\nI love a challenge.  So far, no question or challenge has weakened my faith in God.  If anything, it has grown stronger.  And that can only be a good thing.\n\nNever underestimate the power of faith, my dear.  Faith in the hands of a good person is awesome.  \n\nIn the hands of an evil person it is downright frightening!!\n\n:)
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No. "Believing" in a religion because you were raised to isn't really believing, it is more of just following tradition- and SOOOO many people do that just because of what it is. There is usually no belief involved, just walking a walk because that's what's always been done.  That is a lot easier than actually having to know/study/learn what something is and believing.   :-)
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Yes, I was raised Catholic and converted to Wicca when I was 21.  I had become increasingly unhappy about some of their theology and will be honest the way the sex scandal was handled was my last straw.  At that point I still did believe in Christianity.  But when I searched for the sect that mirrored what I thought I read the bible more and more and things just didn't make much sense any more. Then the more I read and looked the inconsistencies and contradictions jumped out.  The OT horrified me beyond belief and I couldn't understand the shift from the OT to the NT, it was as if God had a personality transplant.  Then I began finding out the changes that had been done to it, stuff taken out, re-written, gutted, etc.  and my disbelief grew.   The end finally came while I was watching George Carlin, believe it or not.  When he did his skit about how God and Santa sounded about the same, I was floored.  I sat there as that played through my mind and it made sense.  My faith officially died.  After that I read the books of many faiths from around the world.  Wicca matched what I believed best and my journey ended with it.
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No, u should be able to choise your own faith!
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It was a process for me, over time. I stopped going to church, after my mother died, and *they* {the christians} told me she no longer had time for me, and I shouldn't 'try talking to her...so followed no path, or religion for many years after that.  Was pretty PO'd at God...didn't matter which one..\n   After I got married, and was pregnant with my son, my husband and I started going to a little baptist church. I can't really say I had any problems with that church, the people were nice, good to us. But it just didn't ..DO anything for me..\n  I started reading up on other religions...and realized, they were all saying, pretty much the same thing. Just said or called it by a different name. And came, again to the relization, that I'd had as a child, that I really don't think any ONE religion...is Right, or Wrong.  They all have the same message...underneath..it's just how the 'People' interpret it..and they allll interpret everything, in about 20 different ways or more..LOL \n  So then they add 'rules' 'regulations' 'laws'...until the real message, get's lost in a jumble of un-related context, which confuses the heck out of everyone, until their numb in the mind and just follow blindly along, out of fear.\n  The Power's that be, gave us..FREE WILL for a reason..So that we can think for ourselves, and seek out the truth on our own. I think everyone's Truth, is their own...I think everyone's journey, is their own personal walk through this life, and every life. It's what you do with it.
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I believed in god very much.  Bible camp counsellor.  On the bible quiz team.  Memorized books of the bible.  I went to a Baptist Bible College to study the bible in depth.  Imagine my surprise when the "small little holes" in the bible became huge GAPING holes when studied in the original languages.  It was the last thing I expected to happen at bible college.\n\nAfter a few years of trying to hold onto my faith, it vanished all together.  I tried shutting myself in a closet and praying every night.  To stop "thinking" and just will myself to believe.  Nothing worked.\n\nBasically, the first thing to go was "the bible isn't correct."  After that it was the morality of god (eternal punishment for a finite sin?  All of humanity being punished for a chick munching on fruit?)\n\nEventually, getting a degree from a "secular" university in history helped me think my way out of religion.  \n\nHope that is what you were lookin for.
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The more eccentric a religion is the more they need to "push" it onto others.  If you feel that you are constantly being "convinced" about religion, maybe it is time to revisit your faith.
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It seems that some people from all different faiths feel that if they belong to that faith (even loosely) it gives them the right to jump on a soapbox and tell the world that what they believe is the only way to go and if you don't believe it you'll go to an undesirable place.  \n\nI understand and appreciate what you're saying and you're free to believe as you wish.  It's the "others" that try to force their beliefs on you that drive most people crazy.  We're free to believe what we'd like to too.  You're right, you can't save anyone's soul.....wish other people would get that and worry about their own souls.