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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  The point if this thread is to question how one religion can be the "right answer" when EVERY religion claims to have truth.  Of course, that doesn't necessary mean all of them are wrong but I see similarities in each especially when  it comes  to evidence (or lack thereof) and faith.  Maybe that's a big clue??????[/quote]

I think most people today who "believe" don't really care if the tenets of their faith make "sense" or is "right."  They believe. That brings them tremendous psychic income and comfort.  Thats the way things are going.  [/quote]

I think that applies to some people, but not most.  As for the way things are going, as more people learn about academic (vs sunday school) religion, they are leaving it.[/quote]

but I have met several people now who tell me they are "spiritual" thus trying to sidestep the whole "what's the right answer" dilemma. I respect them; they are seeking answers to the big questions and are settling on a belief system that works for them.[/quote]
I've never understood this "religion that works for me" thing. So many people refuse to believe in the God of the Bible because He judges people for their sin, and so they perceive Him to be vengeful and angry, even though He also is holy and loving enough to provide His own sacrifice to redeem them. Yet they will then turn around and believe in an unimaginably [i]schizophrenic[/i] God, one who has supposedly revealed Himself in so many different, and contradictory ways to so many people of different faiths. If you believe in God at all, then you believe He made the world, and the creation has an incredible order to it. Why would a God like that not have a knowable, consistent and unchanging nature? People find religion that's "right for me" because they want to feel comfortable and not confront their own wickedness. It's definitely [i]not[/i] comfortable for me to believe in Hell, the depth of my own sinfulness, and my total inability to save myself by any means. It would be much more comfortable for me to think that God will reward me someday for "trying to be a good person," but I come to Christ because I know this isn't true. I need His forgiveness, and this is what He offers through Christ. Christianity is the [i]only[/i] religion built on personal love of God toward His creation, in sending a savior to die for the sins of the world. Every other belief system out there requires us to do something to earn our salvation. Not only does that make more sense, but it's truly the only one that "works" for everyone. [/quote]

Well, it sure sounds like Christianity is the right religion for you -- cleansing you of your wickedness. Congrats on finding it -- thought in this Christian-sturated culture, I bet it wasn't hard.   For others, who don't feel so wicked, spirituality works better.  And for some,who are comfortable in the natural universe, no religion at all works just fine.[/quote]

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