What is easier to you?  To uncover God or discover your inner self?
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To discover my inner self is far easier. But I think it's possible to discover God, right after we fully discover ourselves.
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i am in a similar situation.  I want to understand what is out there.  how others believe and all of that.  I have been doing alot of reading.  Looking stuff up on the net. Asking people questions.  I am at a point where I want to go to places and see what they do what they go through.  I want to see what they see and try to feel why they do.  I want to know why they believe in what they believe in.  Dont be afraid to search and ask.  You might get slack for it.  Ppl tellin you its not necessary. (i have gotten that.  they say this is the faith theres no need for all this)  It isnt their journey, its yours.  If there is anything in particular you are curious about.  start there.  And as you go your search will guild itself. And most of all listen to your heart.  if your search leads you some where and your heart and soul are ok with it, stick with it.  if your soul or heart says stay clear then listen to it.  Thats what the journeys all about.
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The one where you pray and ask God to reveal His wisdom to you. The one where God sends His Son to redeem you. The one that requires your constant attention to His word and calling. The one where there is no room for selfishness or lusts of the flesh. I suggest you pray. If your heart is truly seeking Him, He will reveal to you.
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the second one because it is less confusing. but, if you want to motiviate everyone, don't use GOD since some people don't believe in him.
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Trying to find God is not blasphemous.  It fact, God is quite easy to find---he is standing next to you.  All you have to do is reach out and touch him with your heart, and he will expose himself to you and never leave you.
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Curiosity and a desire to become GOD!
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I think its harder to believe.\n\nI mean..isn't it always more difficult to believe things that aren't tangible and easily explained? \n\nIt would be much easier for me to say...nah..I don't get it, there aren't enoughh answers....i'm not going to believe in God...\n\nBut I prefer to believe, even though sometimes its harder.
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Alan Watts wrote that to define oneself by a particular religion is to commit spiritual suicide.  Getting locked into a faith as defined by others who say you must believe such and such does very little to expand one's spirit.\n\nI believe that reading and exploring and gaining an understanding of what others believe is beneficial in beginning to find our own spiritual center.  You are doing a good job of questioning.  Don't ever stop.  I am 56 and I am still sorting through my beliefs and have come to the conclusion that I will probably do so until the day I die.  Spirituality is a very personal journey.\n\nIf I was pushed to identify myself by religion/belief I would have to say Taoist however, I feel that once I label myself that I limit my growth.  Once one uses that label Christian, then one limits one's spiritual exploration to christian texts, the same with muslim, buddhist or the striped sock gang.  By remaining open to all ideas I think we have a greater chance of working together on this planet and possibly resolving our differences once and for all
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I agree. No higher power will show you who you really are, what your purpose is. To do that you must look inward. So yeah, I completely agree
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To answer this question, you have to ask yourself: is there an inherent need in humans to beleive in God or a deity?  I beleive in God because I acknowledge that something, whatever it may be exists beyond what we know & understand.  That is to say, i beleive that God isn't what the majority of the world would lead us to beleive.  God is there, but we can't possibly understand it.  To understand God is to be God.  This raises another question: are humans their own individual God, just on a different level?  So if you answer yes to the previous question, I think one might be able to take comfort in their own 'Godness,' and the 'Godness' around you.
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The only evidence that will satisfy your intellect is a direct experience of God within you. Instead of trying to mentally grasp God, have the intention of inner transformation via death of the fearful/egoic self. Only God can radically transform, and once you take up THAT dismantling process, crashing head on into the SPirit is only a matter of time!!\n\nThe good news: God loves skeptics because skeptics look within for answers, and away from the religions of man.
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Both! Our human minds would find it difficult to understand, as we have only ever experienced life inside of God's creation, but he is everywhere and everything.
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You are not always meant to know this.Practice following your gut instinct.We don't always understand these feelings until later.Doing this has brought me peace and in turn closer to God to recieve his mesages to me.
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The best way is to be in the Word (Read the bible) and prayer (pray continually). Also pray and ask God for spiritual discernment. This is the thing. All of us have three "voices" that talk to us. There's God, the devil, and our self. Spiritual discernment is what allows us to be able to tell the difference between the three. \n\nThere are a few ways you can check things you "hear". \n\nFirst, when God speaks to us it will always line up with the Word (the bible). So if you have a thought, and it contradicts anything in the bible, then you can know immediately that it's not God. (That's why reading and studying the bible is so important).\n\nAnother way to check would be to ask, is this clear or is it complicated and confusing. God's word is always clear. On the other hand, the devil is called "the author of confusion." So if something is complicated and confusing, you can be assured that it is not comming form God.\n\nAlso read Galations 5:19-26\n\nRead the entire passage and decide for yourself, but from it it's probably safe to say that thoughts involving/containing the fruits of the spirit (love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control) are from God, and thoughts of sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, discord, rage, selfishness, envy, drunkenness, orgies, etc. are not.\n\nHope this helps.
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You haven't seen God, yet you want to believe him. What you believe through knowledge is not that powerful. If you believe something by worthy of knowledge then some other type of knowledge will change it. But what you believe by feelings that can only be change when you have some stronger feelings. A feeling is not that one that feels the people of this world. \n\nThese are spiritual feelings, the feeling that is felt by your soul. That feeling is only awakened by enlightenment. When Noor (light) enters in your heart, it creates the feeling of Love. Noor is the feeling for God. Till that feeling the faith and believe in God is established, this is the spirituality. This can not be obtaining by reading books. When the Noor enters in your heart, in order to further strengthen it, you enter in the worship. By repeating the several names of God, by repeating the words, revealed by God upon the heart of prophet. By repeating those words you happen to create light. That light further strengthens the faith and believes in your heart. Your faith and believe will get stronger in accordance with the quantity of Noor in your heart. This all revolves around the quantity of Noor. \nThere are methods and ways to obtain and acquire Noor. The first method is through spirituality.
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Ask the different way round.\n\nBelieving (in any religion) is easy, you don't have to think.\n\nActually thinking prevents believing. And I prefer to think for myself. :-)
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Both actually. I take some time alone to pray. When I've given my problem into God's hands, I tell my close friends about it and I let go of it and enjoy myself, "for who by worrying can add an inch to his life."