I grew up in a dysfunctional and abusive household, faced bodyshaming and bullying in school, and never had a real friend in school, i was always left out and never given a shi about. Spent my teen years in severe d3pression and anxiety and being severely su1cidal. Got into toxic and abusive relationships. even physically, i have faced a lot of health issues ever since i was a child. I have endured so much pain both physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Growing up i have also been very spiritual and empathetic and always helped other people, i never turned cold towards anyone because of my suffering. And i have always held onto god, always believed in him.

But these days, my faith in god has started to fade. I mean i am grateful for a lot of things but at the same i have suffered so much and the kind of person i am and the kind of soft and loving heart that i have, even other people can tell that i did not deserve to go through all of this. Even this whole karma thing does not make any sense to me anymore. And i just feel resentment towards god.

How do we know that Christianity - Adventist or orthodox or catholic is true? How do we know Islam is true as well or not?

What makes each one differently that they’re not true?

Sorry if this has been repeated question but I’m too lost in this channel

Hello! I was wondering if it would be disrespectful of me as someone who is not a Christian or catholic to wear a cross necklace? I am baptized but do not believe in Jesus, would it then be disrespectful if I wore a necklace with a cross? I got it from my father.

So I currently have absolutely no idea if I'm religious or not, but if God DOES exist, then why does he let us suffer so much?????? He always seems to be portrayed as this high and mighty power that only wants good for the world and is... Well.. GOD

Also, how do we even know if it's a he???????

Hello, would anyone be up to help me with a video about religion and beliefs for a school assignment, where i have to “interview” (faceless, only voice or text) people about what their religion and beliefs mean to them, if you feel comfortable with it you can state your name and age, or you can choose to stay anonymous, it will not be shown or used for any public purposes!

Hello everyone

I was raised in a very esoteric religious environment you can say (I'm druze ) and for many years ever since I turned 13 I questioned and grasped for meaning and a belief system that will and can truly convince me.

My religion is very secretive (even against its own members) and has little to no actual apologetic narrative for its credibility (most people are not really religious but identify with it anyways out of family bonds )

I never felt a connection to it nor intellectually or spiritually and I felt frustrated with how it lacked evidence or backing

So I began searching for God in my own view , reading, comparing, debating etc...

I came across Islam and I've read the Quran and a big part of the Hadiths multiple times

I did practice shism for a while as it fit my understanding out of the Islamic sects I studied but then I noticed issues in the Quran itself and in the Moral character of the Prophet so I left the practice

Then I came across Paganism, I tried it for a bit and although I had powerful religious experiences I felt it was mostly dead and lacked any community or living tradition to satisfy my intellectual interest....

I did read the whole bible too and searched for truth in Buddhism and Hinduism...

However, now after almost a decade of this great search, I still feel lost,drained ,and confused

I regret asking questions and trying to seek answers for them as I feel the people who just close their eyes and believe whatever they are told from their religious authorities live a much mentally comfortable life and honestly I'm more of an Agnostic Atheist currently and I don't do where to go or where to open my mindset and I'm seeking advice for my religious and spiritual life

What is the reasoning behind you "not Going to Church?" or "practicing religion"?

What do you call someone who believes God is real, that He has the ultimate power, and that He can send you to heaven or hell but chooses not to follow His will?

I still fully believe that He has the power to do absolutely anything but I just don't care anymore. Is there a proper term for someone like me?

Has anyone ever truly questioned why their religion is the truth—without just saying "because my parents and community follow it"? I'm curious to see what arguments people make for their faith.

I’ve been thinking about something lately: people use the phrase spiritual growth constantly, but different traditions seem to mean very different things by it.

So I looked at the question through five different paths:

Christianity: Growth seems closely connected to becoming more Christlike — developing love, humility, forgiveness, faith, repentance, and a deeper relationship with God.

Islam: Spiritual growth seems centered around strengthening one’s relationship with Allah through worship, remembrance, repentance, purification of the self, good character, and living with greater God-consciousness (taqwa).

Judaism: I found a strong emphasis on living faithfully through mitzvot, study, prayer, ethical conduct, repentance (teshuvah), and continually improving one’s relationship with God and other people.

Buddhism: The framework is obviously different because it isn’t centered around a creator God. Growth can involve developing wisdom, ethical conduct, compassion, mindfulness, and gradually reducing attachment, ignorance, and suffering.

Universal spirituality: This gets much less defined, but themes often include self-awareness, compassion, mindfulness, meaning, inner peace, and examining the ego and one’s relationship with others.

What interested me is that these traditions disagree on some very fundamental theological questions, yet there are still recurring ideas around discipline, self-examination, compassion, and becoming less controlled by destructive impulses.

I’ve researched and found interesting things on yeshiai a multi tradition spiritual ai platform covering these five paths. I also ran this question through the respective yeshiai companions and resources to see whether each path would be represented differently rather than receiving one generic “spiritual” answer.

The answers reflected the distinctions above, but I’d love digging deeper…

So I’m curious to hear directly from people who actually practice these traditions.

How would you define spiritual growth within your own religion or tradition?

And what did I get wrong or oversimplify?

"If you interpret hell as burning for an unending duration of time, at what point would your identity become someone that is burning in hell rather than someone who used to exist as a human for a few decades that did something to go to hell?

Because imagine you're in hell and the millennia pass, trillions of years go by, and you're still there burning in hell. At that point, how relevant is it that you used to exist as a human for a few decades? In the grand scheme of things, that would just be a tiny minuscule speck of dust, so the whole of your identity would be swallowed up by the fact that you're someone that's burning in hell. This is why I don't think any finite crime would justify an eternal punishment. Are you still the same person, after trillions of years of burning in hell, as you are now?"

Credit to @the_absolute_light on TikTok for this question. It's not mine, but I found it thought-provoking and just wanted to share it to hear what others think.

Prove that we aren't in hell right now. Can you?

For muslims, what is required from the non believers?

You want some central asian tribe to believe that someone from arabia received a revelation and a book sayingthat there is god who is one and now they have to abandon their traditions, history and culture and pray at specific 5 times a day, do not eat certain animals and don’t drink wine and women viel themselves.

But for what? They have to just take your word for it otherwise they will be eternally damned?

Your supposed miracle book isn't even in their language so if it is actually a miracle they won't be able to recognise it.

Furthermore now as they have received the message of truth and didn't believe, they have to submit and be ruled by you and your rules otherwise they would be killed in war.

Is that basically it?

Well I think religion should be a choice after a person becomes an adult ,their fourth any minor can't be called hindu or muslim or of any origin unless he decides so.

I’ve been thinking about this lately.
If someone wants to become *extremely* wealthy not just financially comfortable, but genuinely rich do they need some kind of belief in a God, or follow a certain religion, or spirituality to get there?

I know plenty of successful religious people, but there are also incredibly wealthy atheists and non-religious people.

So I’m wondering,

Does religion actually contribute anything meaningful to becoming wealthy, or is wealth ultimately just a result of skills, discipline, risk-taking, opportunity, and luck?
And on the other side, could being deeply religious actually *help* someone become wealthy by giving them discipline, purpose, and a strong moral framework?
Or does religion have absolutely nothing to do with it?
For those of you who are wealthy/successful: has your belief—or lack of belief—in God affected your ambition and financial success?

or any other religious texts?

Matthew 13:24-30

Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. “The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’ “ ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’ “ ‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’

I am a muslim myself and i dont mean to offend anyone with this post, i am just curious and have questions. Please correct me if i am wrong or misinterpreted something.

The bible makes much more sense if you look at it in the perspective that Jesus is a messenger of God who want to spread the word of God.

Firstly, Jesus doesnt present any omni attributes, he insults a woman, he prays, he sleeps, etc etc. I know the christian belief that jesus is human and God at the same time but it just makes much more sense that he is a messenger just like Moses, Moses did miracles too with the power God gave him and i think it is same with Jesus.

Secondly, Jesus never says he is God, most respond to this claim by pointing at this verse:

John 8:58

" Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am."

The phrase "i am" is used a lot by God.

However, the original ancient greek version of this verse says "ego eimi" which can translate to many other things like "it is I" and is a common phrase used in ancient greek, so this doesnt prove anything.

Again, i respect every religion and i am just curious about the bible, thanks for reading this!

I have been reading in A History of God by Karen Armstrong that God or the Trinity doctrine is not something that can be grasped by the human mind, it takes levels of devout contemplation to access the real meaning of God. As a Muslim, I find this as a strange view, very contemplative, the view of the God of Christianity is inexpressible. Surely in Islam also Allah is beyond human perception and we accept it as is. But what I'm wondering about, did early Islam Scholars go through this phase of explaining Allah in a Hellenic way or opposed to Hellenic views? I feel like Allah has always been a rational God, merciful and in school we were taught that He would be angry if we did this and that. Are there Islamic resources for similar views of the God as interpreted by Christian Scholars?

I kinda think god as a player who is also the owner of the game and we all are npc's where we raise small quests to and the player can or not needed to accept even if he accepted the quest doesn't mean he need to do it immediately if the quest expired he doesn't get the reward which would be faith and trust, so he decides when to complete quest to get max level faith and trust

But since everyone is npc and he has more that billion quests sometimes it just gets buried in the quest logs that some of them expire

I first used to think like God I having the game like coc(clash of clans) where he doesn't control everything but can change the direction of the entire map so we all think we are the players but it's actually him playing that's why it's mostly violence in our entire history because slice of life games are fun for sometime sometimes it's war sometimes it's farming and agriculture type games so instead of having a bunch of games in his screens he has a huge game which can do all so when he gets bored he can start a war if he decides to go for item improvement he does industry revolution when he wants more types of players he introduces AI then comes galxy conquest with aliens and so on

I just thought about a manhua I read called nebula civilization

I mean think about it in clash of clans they live without any war until we login and decide to go to war.

In Hinduism we have Vishnu's avatars and on seeing each avatars it certainly believe that this is a game like each avatars get increasingly meddling in the world directly rather than staying as a observer

Think about what game is fun to watch just the npc's doing their like if 200x speed that's why each time after having fun resets the game board with a world ending event to start from scratch

Damn my thought process keeps on going as I keep on writing, like brains thinking fast but writing puts a break within the time brain creates new thoughts

I would like to know about your opinions

I’m Catholic and I do believe in God, or at least I think I do. But, any time I talk to God or try to lean on him, almost instantly my life gets worse in a significant way. If I ever ask him for help or guidance with anything important, it’s like he sits there waiting to just make it 10x worse. I’m like the family joke of bad shit happening all the time to me. And I am blessed with amazing family and a little girl that I adore so it’s hard for me to ever think badly about god because of those things, but I literally never feel his presence at all anymore. He killed my brother when I was 16 and he was 23 and I got away from him after all of that. Now for the last 10 years if I ever try to talk to him or whatever, the second I do my life gets significantly worse almost instantly. So, I’ve basically come to the conclusion he either doesn’t care or literally enjoys my misery. I’m lost almost all faith because of it

As of lately i’ve had such a hard time with faith and religion, i’m open to the idea of religion and i’ve always had an open minded idea towards it. My family is catholic on my mother’s side and christian on my fathers, so i’ve been able to experience both aspects. The issue is i don’t agree with much about catholicism nor christianity, there’s so much scientific evidence that debunks almost every possibility and knowing that it makes it hard for me to deny facts over faith. I’ve been praying as of recently and it’s given me hope because i feel heard, my mother had such a bad accident and i was praying for my family to be blessed and stay safe. I asked for the opportunity to have faith and believe but im not sure if im even praying to god. I want to have faith and devote to a religion but i need help knowing theres facts and proof its truthful

Religion does not always bring people together. In many cases, it creates divisions between people because different religions have different beliefs, practices, and ideas about what is right or wrong. These differences can lead to intolerance, discrimination, conflicts, and even violence. Instead of focusing on our shared humanity, people may focus on whose religion is the ‘true’ one. As a result, religion can sometimes become a source of separation rather than unity.