Poll: What's your faith?

Is there always a right answer? I believe there is, but sometimes we won't know it until we get the chance to ask God and find out. There are oftentimes disagreements about certain areas that people hold dear to their hearts, but I believe they are not vital to salvation.

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Melissa, I believe I answered that question in my post. To go into it further usually starts arguments and I don't want this thread to go there.

Gotcha, I was just thinking that if you (not you specifically) go to a Baptist Church (for example) and click other it would be more logical to click Protestant!

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I agree, Melissa. I was being a bit tongue in cheek. I also believe that everyone's relationship with God is unique, and that He takes us to wide and diverse places in our faithful walk.

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I didn't click on anything because IMO faith is not really a religion. People shouldn't put their faith in a religion, but in their diety, in my case God and His son Jesus.

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It's a new-ish trend amongst some evangelicals to say that their church isn't Protestant, that it somehow escaped the corruption of the Catholic church and descended directly from the early churches before the fall of Rome.

And that is indeed a conversation larger than this thread.

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Shoot, I missed the double catholic option AND I ran out of room to include Islam >_< Gambled on the JW/ Islam spot.

"Protestant" /non denom was meant to be a catch all term for non catholic or non LDS Christian.
I'm hunting around but I have yet to find a way to edit the poll and just delete that extra little papalist. ^_^

I'm with Melissa, as to the matter of Christian brother/sisterhood I feel that the individual beliefs all fall on a bullseye. Divinity of Christ is dead center, with other things varying in importance. Color of the carpet in the church building being an example of something on the farthest outer rings. Ideas of what music should be used in worship will vary from denomination to denomination, but usually hovers nearer to the outer rings... It's pretty easy to see how much the entire body has in common, and hey-- if you're on that target, we're working toward common goals.

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I am a child of God and believe in God and his Son..I however do not go to any church, as I have yet to find one that actually practices what it preaches and doesn't end up worshipping the minister, his wife, his belief etc....

Us agnostics resent being lumped in with the atheists. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME THING. Agnostics believe you cant prove existance or non-existance of a god or GOD or GoDz of any stripe. There are self described atheists very much like agnostics only arent worried about proof, just have an "intuitive feeling" that there is no god and dont worry about it beyond that, and then there are rabid ATHEISTS that have made atheism into their own fudamentalist religion. They TRULY BELIEVE there is no god purely on faith alone.... and want to convert others to their belief.

Interesting you dont lump Deists in with agnostics and atheists too as many religionists do. But you dont mention them at all. They are neither agnostics nor atheists, but most religionists dont comprehend a difference. Guess they are "other" with all the other minority religions that somehow "dont count", now thats real way to belittle somebody's beliefs.

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I am a Christian... who was " raised" Southern Baptist..... I checked other..

Born into the Lutheran Church MO Synod (it would take the whole poll to cover all the Lutheran sects-and don't DARE confuse them lol) , baptized at 2 weeks of age, confirmed at 13. Attended there until 4 years ago when I decided to go to Dh's family church which is Southern Baptist. It was too small so crossed the road and now attend a Christian Church.

I checked Protestant. Do I agree with all of Luther's teachings? Nope. Do I agree with all of the Baptists? Nope. It's a recent thing to the Christian Church so I'm still trying to figure it out. All I know is I have to be re-baptized to be a member of the church and I feel no need to do that.

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HermitJohn, I doubt any offense was intended. There are *so* many choices, and when you may not know, or know incorrect chatter, about a certain belief? Whew.

Can I also *please* take a moment to crack up that the ad showing in Oggie's post alternates between an ad for an "All Church Picnic" and "Spay and Neuter, it's not just for dogs and cats anymore"?

Wow Whisky, similar backgrounds here. Was raised Lutheran (hubby raised Catholic) with both of us feeling a certain lack (for us) in either religion. Have attended first Baptist and Methodist churches semi-regularly and still felt a searching need. Have "visited" several other churches from Pentacostal to LDS. At this point, we attended a non-denominal church. That being said, I still have strong roots in Lutheran, specifically regarding baptism. I have always have had a strong "faith" and believes that God knows what is in my heart, whether or not I attend a church at all, and we talk on a regular basis. I also love civil, respectful discussions about Jesus, God, and a persons faith in general. I work with a great group of diverse ladies on the night shift at a hospital and when it is slow, we have had several wonderful discussions about our personal beliefs and I feel like I grow as a person everytime I am able to have one with someone.

I am a spiritual person. I believe in God and try to live a good life, be a good person. But I don't attend any church. I commune with God at all times. God is all around us.
I don't like religion. I was raised Baptist, but no more. Religion seems to be full of hypocrites. I don't need religion in my life, but feel that it is fine for others if that is what they want to do. I have God in my life. God knows my heart and true intent in life.

I was all excited that there were so many others like me...until I found out all the dang christians were checking "Other"! Stop it!!! Your Protestant!!

I am "Other". I am New Thought.

By that definition, I would be an agnostic since I am convinced no one can ever prove that God exists. I do however, have faith that He exists, which would set us apart.

These are what I refer to as Evangelical Atheists.

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Agnostic.

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I don't know what my faith is. I was raised catholic, then became agnostic. Recently I've come to believe more strongly that there is something beyond the physical world. I don't think we can ever understand it and maybe all the religions are just our clumsy attempts at explaining what we don't understand.

I think there is probably a God, or a force that we are incapable of comprehending.

I am a strong confident Believer in the Aesir and Vanir, the ancient, pre-Christian, Ancestral Gods of Northern European Folks and decendants. My Faith rests with the Aesir and Vanir. I Honor Them daily.

I was raised Roman Catholic and was very actively Catholic, until early middle-age. At that time I pledged my Faith to the Pagan/Heathen Gods of my Ancestors. That was 32 years ago. So I checked "Other".

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You would be more like the small "a" atheists then, they dont require proof. They have intuition and faith that there is no god but they dont go beyond that.

Or perhaps the Deists who believe in God through what they perceive as reason. Their God is not one who requires worship nor gives out candy. It is/was a Prime Mover then is not involved in day to day minucia.

Agnostics require proof and there is no proof either way, only faith.... Simply no way to see all space and time in one glance from our very limited perspective. I could go along in a way both with the small "a" atheists and the Deists. Like the atheists, I have a feeling there is no superhuman incarnation being ruling on a throne someplace worrying when a sparrow falls. And with Deists that there may indeed be a prime mover as in the Big Bang, but not some super human incarnation that is continually rolling dice. Just a natural mechanism to the universe. Call it God if you wish. Wind it up and it does its thing without worry about the individual constituents of the universe. Tipping of the rows of dice in a closed room.... Again no proof though. And there has to be proof for an agnostic, not intuition or "feelings" or faith.

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